The Pirate Shirt
Sewed like frantic all day, and at the end of it, I have a Pirate Shirt.
I'm not completely happy with it--still too bad of a seamstress to come up with the very shiny vision in my head--but overall? Squee!
I wish I hadn't made the body of it so wide, for I didn't really need it *that* far off my shoulders. The sleeves up top are a little too tight (at least, the right arm is; the left arm is just comfy). The rest of the sleeves are, however, all that could be desired, with a most pleasing bouffe. Even the cuffs (and the little ruffle just beyond them) are completely perfect.
The neck I wasn't so lucky with. I actually put on a collar rather than having that authentic, dog-collar look (bad me). I put no interfacing in, so it's not stiff enough to sit quite right (although I didn't want it to be stiff). Having the body gathered into the collar also pulls it about a bit.
The main body is wide and balloon-ish and doesn't look good on its own at all, being plain and balloony as aforesaid. But then, it was never meant to be worn by itself. The shirt looks absolutely fabulous beneath a vest or skimpy short-sleeved top, hurrah!
Now I must go off and find some buttons, hooks, etc to close the cuffs and front slit.
*tap-dances away*
I'm not completely happy with it--still too bad of a seamstress to come up with the very shiny vision in my head--but overall? Squee!
I wish I hadn't made the body of it so wide, for I didn't really need it *that* far off my shoulders. The sleeves up top are a little too tight (at least, the right arm is; the left arm is just comfy). The rest of the sleeves are, however, all that could be desired, with a most pleasing bouffe. Even the cuffs (and the little ruffle just beyond them) are completely perfect.
The neck I wasn't so lucky with. I actually put on a collar rather than having that authentic, dog-collar look (bad me). I put no interfacing in, so it's not stiff enough to sit quite right (although I didn't want it to be stiff). Having the body gathered into the collar also pulls it about a bit.
The main body is wide and balloon-ish and doesn't look good on its own at all, being plain and balloony as aforesaid. But then, it was never meant to be worn by itself. The shirt looks absolutely fabulous beneath a vest or skimpy short-sleeved top, hurrah!
Now I must go off and find some buttons, hooks, etc to close the cuffs and front slit.
*tap-dances away*