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alias_sqbrThe last few days I've been feeling motivated but not particularly clever or energetic, thus I've been doing sitting-down tasks like drawing and dyeing my hair..and badly adapting a mens shirt. Pictures follow, this stands as much as a warning as a tutorial, though the resulting shirt is certainly wearable, if nothing else a waistcoat hides many sins :)
The first step, which I later regretted, was cutting off the sleeves.
I got a shirt which is the right shape (but a bit small) and did the adaptations using a combination of it as template and experiment.
I added darts (these got altered a bit before sewing):
I then tried to reattach the sleeves and realised that cutting them out had made the sleeves narrower but the sleeve holes wider, and the adaptations I wanted to do (shorter sleeves, narrower shoulders) would just make this worse. After much experimentation I added a pleat at the back (BAD) and some basting (long stitches you pull tight) to the lower front (good) to get the seams to match. I pinned up a hemline and realised the shirt was too tight, so unpicked the side seams and turned them into splits (there was just enough extra fabric inside the side seam to create narrow seams on each side of the split)
The first step, which I later regretted, was cutting off the sleeves.
I got a shirt which is the right shape (but a bit small) and did the adaptations using a combination of it as template and experiment.
I added darts (these got altered a bit before sewing):
I then tried to reattach the sleeves and realised that cutting them out had made the sleeves narrower but the sleeve holes wider, and the adaptations I wanted to do (shorter sleeves, narrower shoulders) would just make this worse. After much experimentation I added a pleat at the back (BAD) and some basting (long stitches you pull tight) to the lower front (good) to get the seams to match. I pinned up a hemline and realised the shirt was too tight, so unpicked the side seams and turned them into splits (there was just enough extra fabric inside the side seam to create narrow seams on each side of the split)
