My machine sewn shirt tutorial is FINALLY FINISHED! Written tutorial on the blog, video tutorial on youtube. Both probably more detailed than necessary.

I'll post more shirt pictures later, right now I need to go work on other stuff to give my brain a rest from all the shirts.

My machine sewn shirt tutorial is FINALLY FINISHED! Written tutorial on the blog, video tutorial on youtube. Both probably more detailed than necessary.

I'll post more shirt pictures later, right now I need to go work on other stuff to give my brain a rest from all the shirts.

Finished my shirt, and I couldn't be happier with it. The fall of the sleeves is just-- 👌

I finished this shirt a week ago and hadn't gotten around to posting photos yet. It's made from a piece of thin brown cotton seersucker I found at the thrift store earlier this year.
I'd set it aside for a bit it, so it counted as part of The Pile, and now that it's done The Pile is down to 6!

The cut and construction is the same as usual, and everything I've got to say about that is in the video and written tutorials I made last year.
The buttons are Dorset wheels made with little metal rings.

Got some pictures of my newly completed purple shirt on me and it's making me really wish I had more purple linen in my stash.

It goes so well with this neat copper necklace I found at the thrift store earlier this year. (I'm pretty sure the green "stone" is glazed ceramic!)

My late eighteenth century shirt is complete! It is completely hand sewn and hand finished, down to the buttons I wrapped.

For general dimensions and construction methods, I followed @vincentbriggs ‘s blog post here (although I believe he’s got a more detailed video on the subject in the works on his youtube channel!). I also referenced to various extant shirts in museum collections for information on collar and cuff proportion trends and usual seam finishing techniques. Particularly for the cuffs, I worked more directly off this shirt in the V&A’s collections, which has a laundry mark dating it to 1791. I did use a different type of Dorset button than the ones on the 1791 shirt. I believe that style is a blandford crosswheel, while mine are cartwheels

The fabric is a historically inaccurate cotton percale salvaged from a lone twin fitted sheet purchased at a thrift store. You can still see the creases left by the elastic gathered sheet seam along the bottom edge of the shirt. Even using the entire length of the sheet, I did end up with much shorter tails than is appropriate for the era. They throw off the proportions of the garment when unworn or untucked, but as you can see here it’s still a perfectly functional amount of shirt, particularly on my not at all tall body.

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I do want to sew a proper linen version with some modifications at some point— if only because linen is such a good fabric for my climate— Although I’ve done a decent amount of repair sewing and put a sweater together with kitchener’s stitch, this shirt is the first garment I’ve cut and sewn. I’m genuinely very pleased with it.

New video in which I do 2 different pants drafts, mock them up & fit them, and alter them into useable fall front patterns. One's more loosely fitted with a narrow fall, and one's tighter with a broadfall. They're for everyday wear, so are not meant to be any specific kind of historical.

I made plenty of mistakes, but they still turned out fine. It's an hour and 8 minutes. I have 2 other partially finished videos at the moment, but patrons voted for this one to be finished next, so now it is.

Finally finished the leaf waistcoat video!! It is 58 minutes.

My machine sewn shirt tutorial is FINALLY FINISHED! Written tutorial on the blog, video tutorial on youtube. Both probably more detailed than necessary.

I'll post more shirt pictures later, right now I need to go work on other stuff to give my brain a rest from all the shirts.

New video in which I make some linen caps to keep my head warm. This one's only 20 minutes.