Lessons learned from sewing a Christmas Shirt (McCall’s M6044)
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- čas přidán 10. 01. 2023
- Dilemma. Sewing a Christmas shirt sounds terrifying, but Dave has his heart set. Do I chicken out, or do I grab a copy of McCalls m6044 and get to work?
Well, you're looking at the video so you already know the answer to that. And here's everything I learned!
Shoutout to this excellent (and very lengthy) sewalong from Saturday Night Stitch! • McCalls M6044 Sewalong...
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What do you mean 11th January is far too late for a first video of the year and also for talking about Christmassy things? Would you have his amazing modelling skills go to waste? Shame on you!
Happy 2023 everyone, let's use it to make all the things! 🥳
What a marvelous job! He looks so happy in his special gift. Thanks for all the tips as well.
I loved your sense of humor and your model too! Great job. Lol
He claims to feel awkward on camera but we can all tell he loves it really 😆
It's never to late for any video you put out. Hope your holidays were awesome! My son liked his skull dice. He calls his dice sets his "Click Clack Magic Math Rocks"
Ah that's brilliant! So happy he likes them! Our holidays were awesome(ly chill and relaxing and exactly what we needed), hope you and family had a great one too! 🥰
I’m just happy to have you back. I can’t help but smile and nod knowingly at the lessons learned. I’m in the process of learning them myself. ❤. P.S. Sorry about the Packers. I watched that game and thought about you often. (I’m from Southern California and watch the Saracens play rugby). Kindred spirits. I hope you have a lovely day creating cool stuff. 😊
Honestly, as much as it pains me to admit this the Packers did not deserve to make it. And it's going to make for an unfamiliar stress-free playoffs haha 😆
You are seriously my new favorite person! Thanks for all the posts.
Haha, thank you! You're pretty awesome yourself!
I tip my hat to you. Still haven’t managed to sew a button down shirt. And David really looks like he didn’t have a gun pointed at him while saying “I like it” 😂😂😂 great job.
We've just about managed to get him to look at the camera instead of always looking at me. We can work on him looking less like a hostage next.
Honestly other than the sleeves this wasn't even a hard project, definitely nowhere near what I'd imagined. You could totally handle it! But make a muslin first 😄
I love watching vids on this sewing pattern. I'm going to be trying my hand at making myself some shirts with this pattern. This video is informative yet hysterically funny. I laughed so many times. Great vid!
Thank you! I did the same thing before starting, just searched frantically for any videos with advice I could find. Happy to pay it forward! p.s. make a muslin 😆
Yay! Congrats on making something very cool and very skilled. Definitely way beyond my skill base and I’m impressed/envious of your abilities 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I mean to be fair it was way beyond mine too, but since when did I let that stop me? 😄
Nah. You are the epitome of “she believed she could so she did”. The fact that you did a good job shows it’s not beyond your skill level at all. Don’t sell yourself short.
I just finished my 3rd. shirt . The sleeves on the first two were horrendous. This time I sewed the shirt sleeve seams and side shirt seams together then slipped the sleeve into the now round arm hole. Matched up the front and back arrows, pinned and sewed them with out any puckering or gathers.
You did such a great job!!! Your hostage, I mean model, should just start modeling EVERYTHING you make. Dabber Dave did such a good job. 😆 Sewing my own wearable something is on my intentionally short list of things I want to attempt this year. I get so nervous about messing up, but I also know the only way to learn is to do it, mess it up, fix it, & finish it. Loved the video, as always! 💜
You can do it! And yes you will mess it up, but yes you will also fix it! p.s. use cheap fabric 😛
@@TheGiddyStitcher Cheap is the only way I roll 🤣🤣🤣
Happy New Year! Congrats on the shirt, it looks great and the pattern is awesome. Also, considering I'm still working on cross stitching three Christmas gifts, this isn't late at all. 😄
This makes me feel a lot better actually, haha, thank you! I mostly skipped out on doing crafted gifts this year (shirt aside of course) and oh my god it made the holidays so stress-free! Don't think my mam is happy about it though...
Hope you had a brilliant Christmas and Happy New Year to you too!
I’m loving the matching dress and shirt! So fun! I would most definitely be the squealing parent. 🤪
Haha, she was so overexcited I've never seen anything like it. Hopefully she'll appreciate the inevitable matching spooky Halloween outfits just the same...
@@TheGiddyStitcher Oh, how could she not?! You can really get out there on Halloween. I’m eager to see them myself! 😂
10/10 best pattern choice ever! 🤣
You both look so cute with the matching outfits! 🥰 Every time you showed your "mistakes", I couldn't see anything wrong, the shirt looked perfect! 🤭
Thank you! I loved this project honestly it was so much fun. Definitely need to make us more cheesy matching stuff in future 👀 And "perfect" from a distance is perfect enough for me!
You two look adorable in your matching outfits. You did a great job. Sewing a man’s shirt is not easy. I have made a couple for my husband and it took me ages to finish them. I even had to go to a sewing class at my local shop to get help putting the sleeves in. It is crazy how many pins It takes to ease in a sleeve. Also, Dave did an excellent job modeling his shirt. 👍😎
Didn't he just! I'm so glad it's not just me struggling with sleeves. All the tutorials make it look so easy and I did pick up some great tips from the sewalong video but just not enough to get me fully all the way there as a beginner. Still, he can move his arms enough to do stupid posing and isn't that what really matters when you get right down to it? 😂
Love how this turned out! I used that same fabric last year in the Gunnesaxmas dress 😁
I thought it looked familiar!
Haha no way, I need to go back and watch that one. Once again our tastes align 😎
This turned out great! Hooray for successful firsts! I'm in the middle of finally making my first garment, but I very deliberately chose a pattern with dolman sleeves - there was no way I was going to brave sleeve setting yet.
Very good choice, very good choice indeed! The sleeves were definitely the worst part, anything else that I mucked up was just silly mistakes but those were genuinely difficult. Still, it's just practise isn't it! Excited to see what you're making :D
@@TheGiddyStitcher I just hope I can finish before I have to put my sewing machine on a moving truck for an unknown number of weeks! 😅I'm so close, but there's so much else to do
This came out so neat! And I love the matching outfits :P making it a yearly tradition?
Haha, we'll see! Maybe matching outfits for one new holiday per year until we have ones for every occasion, so as not to be wasteful 😉
@@TheGiddyStitcher can't wait to see the Halloween one 😅
You did a great job!
Thank you I'm super proud of this! 😁
I think you did a wonderful job.
Thank you! Next time I'll aim to get both sleeve cuffs the same length, that seems like a good goal for a shirt 😅
You did a great job! Any type of shirt where the front has to match isn't easy. Steve are no fun either! Just wait until you get into costuming with the dreaded epilets. Each project had their own challenges, but you've got this!
Side note, are you doing the ppsal for 2023?
Pfft, couldn't you just let me think I'd conquered sewing for one single day?!😭Haha I better practise basic shirts a bit more before moving to anything even more complicated, I think!
As for the SAL, honestly not sure. I didn't finish 2022 yet so might just cruise along doing that one tbh. Although there's also no reason I couldn't join 2023 later once that one's finished. So basically I have no idea and haven't even looked at it so all I know is it's squares this time 😅
Wish I'd watched this video before I breached lesson 6... Made two left sleeves...🤦🏻
Let's just say it's a rite of passage, haha, hope you had enough fabric left over to recover from it though!
Major triumph! Sewing a shirt is not a beginner project. You have absolutely levelled up your sewing game.
Also, there is no quick tip or magic trick for "easing in sleeves". It's one of those things that just gets easier with practice. The more you do it, the neater they get. Oh yeah, and sewing the same sleeve twice was probably down to your test fabric looking the same on the front and back. You can always mark one side of the fabric with chalk, pins or washi tape to keep track of the 'right' and 'wrong' side if you're using fabric where it isn't obvious.
Bottom line though, you need to make more shirts. Or a shirt dress!
Shirt dress is definitely on the list! I love a good shirt dress but they usually don't fit me right, so my war on ready to wear is about to truly begin 😄
Reddit assures me that sleeves are in fact always the devil and it's not just me, so that's good at least. And yeah you're right on that muslin fabric having no obvious right and wrong side, thought I'd compensated for that but obviously not lol.
Eeh! Can you even believe the newbie scaredy cat who used to just stick to sack dresses and message you with stupid questions all the time made it this far?! I hope you're proud of me! 😄
@@TheGiddyStitcher absolutely! Nothing can stop you now. 💪
I have a question… I’ve made this shirt 3x but with non directional printed fabric. The next one I’m man in g has a distinctive one directional print. My question is… the pattern layout for the collar shows to place it with the grain along the selvage but if I cut it that way, the pattern will be sideways. Is it okay to turn the collar pattern perpendicular to the selvage so that when Constructed, the pattern will face the correct direction?
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I found this an invaluable tutorial for using that pattern for a short sleeve shirt in particular :)
cheap way to get cotton fabric... use old sheets from friends, family, thrift stores