I like unusual shirts and recently took it upon myself and my wife’s sewing machine to start making my own shirts.
I ran into this rayon challis in the fabric store and decided I should have a tropical shirt of it. Converting my pattern for to accommodate what I’ve heard about rayon challis involved turning the side seams and arm seams into french seams (after adding to the seam allowance on the pattern).
Surprisingly, it fits perfectly. It’s not perfect by any means, but it’s the first shirt of this fabric type that I’ve ever owned.
It looks great! I love the fabric. I just started making clothes for myself and there’s something so satisfying about it even if they don’t always turn out perfect.
I’d wear it
Looks pretty good! How long did that take?
To be completely honest, I have no idea how many man hours this one took.
In general, I can complete this pattern with cotton fabric in a couple days of hobby work, but this fabric is a bit slippery and I definitely spent twice as much time preparing everything to mitigate that. Plus this was my first time doing French seams
Great pattern!
Looks amazing! This makes me want to borrow my mother in law’s sewing machine
In my opinion, if you are interested you should.
It’s very satisfying to wear a shirt that you created and that no one else can even own because you made it. Just make sure you watch some tutorial videos and don’t let fear of failure get the best of you
If you are worried about losing the fabrics value from messing up, consider picking up some super cheap cotton muslin to practice on. Near me it is as low as $5 a yard, So a practice shirt could be 10 to $15 worth of muslin
What a great choice of pattern, it came out very nice!
I really like your fabric choice! I think it turned out really nice. The french seams was a good idea.
I see that pattern matching, and I’m impressed! Well done
Wow this looks awesome! I got a sewing machine to do minor alterations so clothes will fit better but I’m nowhere skilled enough to create a shirt from scratch!
You might be surprised at how well it can go with a well made pattern!
I like wardrobe by me’s patterns (this one is their tropical shirt pattern).
A lot of their patterns also come with process videos as well
Thanks! I was wondering about the pattern.
