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Green Striped Shirt sans sleeves
Friday, November 18, 2005
Brunhilde is liking the new shirt a lot. I haven't actually tried it on myself, so I have to take her word for it. All that is left are sleeves, buttons, and buttonholes.
I've started using a popular method for putting the collars and stands on--the one espoused by Sandra B in her book Power Sewing Step-By-Step. Lots of people in the internet sewing community use that method, and I'm starting to like it.
This method seems a little less prone to mistakes than the method I was using from either David Page Coffin's Shirtmaking or the Singer Sewing Reference Library's Sewing for Style. That one has you cutting into the seam allowance just before you finish. Mary Ray said something at our ASG program last year that I won't forget. It was something like, "Until you cut, you can go back."
Very true.
I am able to get good results from the DPC method, though, and it is the method I've used for my shirts up until I made the first collared Vee shirt. I don't think I'll go back, but it's nice to know that I have two usable collar and stand methods in my repertoire. I wonder how the shirt manufacturers do it?