Sewing a Pirate Shirt by Hand | The Longest WIP
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Hello Friends! Welcome to my longest WIP ever! I started sewing this shirt a full two years ago, which means i also started filming this video a full two years ago! I wanted it just to be done, and now it is and now I have a cool pirate shirt!! Wooo! I hope you enjoy!
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I love the sound of scissors cutting fabric. Please tell me I'm not the only one.
I need to up my game with sewing - getting the pieces to meet, finishing off nicely, all that - so that's what I'm looking for. Watch me get distracted by a.... OH SHINY THINGS!
HAHAHAHAHA I think that is all of us!
I’ve been making these shirts for over 10 years. Good job! If the shirt pulls to the back, move the shoulder seam forward in the collar(less gathers in the back, more in the front). If the collar pulls away from the neck (towards the shoulders), increase the distance from the shoulder to the neck. I always do the collar last and with a fitting for this purpose. A 1/4” forward or backwards can make all the difference.
YAY GEE!!! Finished WIPs are always a win!
I'm hemming pants (for pay) and thinking about what I'm going to do for the 30 Yard Challenge.
AND both broken feet are healed and out of boots, and now I'm doing physical therapy to re-learn walking and get my feet back to being feet.
Oh I’m so glad to hear that you are getting better!!!
Grainline Studios have a great tutorial about changing the arm hole to prevent the top sliding back.
Oooo thanks!!
Every shirt I own slides back like that
We’ll get to the bottom of this…
@@Costuming_Drama 😃
I liked the end of Game of Thrones too! It seemed so right that Tyrion ended up being what essentially is the king. He had the wisdom, experience and judgment.
Yeah. It was a way better last season than people gave it credit for
I made a pirate shirt for my son-in-law last summer. I need to make another one because it is already partly destroyed because he uses it for his fencing. I have a folkwear pattern from the 80s for the shirt. And i have made many simplified versions for myself. I would add a gusset at the slits in the sides. That is where mine tears. I would also cut the neck down lower in a curve in the front, that is not period but it will help your issues. Luke doesn't have the problem because he wears a fencing vest over it that keeps the shirt in place.
Regarding the move, i have moved cross country at least 5 times, and the packers have never said they didn't pack up kitchen cupboards. The last move was about a year ago. I had 2 estimates, one via video and one with a warm body walking through the house. The video one was much too low so i didn't take it. The life one came in a bit lower at the end.
I know! That mover situation was bunk for sure!
Synchronicity! I was just thinking that I need to get started on a sewing project, and a pirate shirt would be perfect!
Oooo let me know how yours goes!
@@Costuming_Drama It remains to be seen if I finish it in the next two years!
Linen sleepwear is the best! At my time it life, I love sleepwear I can sweat in and not feel gross waking up. I live in medieval chemises nightly.
The explanation for the arm gusset is 🧑🍳😘 chef’s kiss wonderful.
Oh thank you so much!!
I can't believe it's been 2 years since you moved Gigi! I remember you saying that you were taking sewing with you, but I really didn't think it had been so long!
I can’t really believe it either!!
@@Costuming_Drama they do say that the older you get, the quicker time passes (school holidays used to last forever as a kid, now as an adult I thunk they're too long!) So you and I must have Rapidly Passing Time Syndrome thanks to our ages!
Thanks for sharing this journey. Wonderful outcome.
A note about the back sliding away from the front. If you have a look, your head isn't exactly in the middle of your trunk, it's slightly to the front. That means there is a tendency for the back to need more length and I think you have sorted that bit out. The front of your neck curves around to the front which causes a displacement of the fabric. Making the collar longer will help. This is the main reason we don't put our men in this type of shirt anymore; the neck opening is curved in modern shirts to allow for that displacement. I look forward to your future experiments; if you go that way.
Thanks again.
Thanks for the advice! Morgan has suggested similar. I will keep trying! (On machine seen samples 🤣😂)
Thank you for sharing! This video combined two of my favorite things...travel and sewing! It was fun for me to watch and made me think, "Hum, maybe I should take a sewing project on my next road trip." 😁 Best wishes.
Hhahahaha I’m so glad! Just don’t expect to actually finish it!
@@Costuming_Drama 🤣
Ty for this video. Speaking of the underarm gusset, I watched 10 zillion times, any video I could find on them. My spicey brain turn it in to a yarn ball after a kitten had play time. I just could not wrap my brain around it. Until I cut them and placed them against the body and suddenly my brain clicked. With no video playing haha it was like ohhhh I get it suddenly. Apparently it was the concept that befuddled me. Anyone yours is on of the greatest pirate shirt videos. Ty.
Awww thank you! And yeah that gusset thing is kind of a thing you have to do to get it…
I'm so impressed you finished it! And while it does pull back, I have that exact problem and have never figured out how to fix it either, it looks fantastic! i have a skirt i have been working on for three years. Lets not talk about it. But I have also found since getting the plague having the mind presence to figure things out is practically gone. Slow but surely things will get done just not on the timeline I want it to. It was great to see a WIP finished, no matter how long it took.
Awww thanks and yes. I know exactly what you mean… the plague has altered me permenantly…
You need to round out the hole towards the back. My creations did that, I rounded out more and more until they stopped. In the center back my hole is about four centimeters from the ironed crease going the other way, and then another centimeter or so for seam allowance. I have a little buffalo hump from my days of unsubstituted hypothyroidism
I’ve been making these shirts for over 10 years. If the shirt pulls to the back, move the shoulder seam forward in the collar. If the collar pulls away from the neck, increase the distance from the shoulder to the neck. I always do the collar last and with a fitting for this purpose. A 1/4” forward or backwards can make all the difference.
Thank you!
Love the rambles! Who comes to your videos and doesn't?! Ama,ing job on the shirt, I reallywant to make one of these one day, but I have other things to do first 😅. Although, I definitely started learning to crochet instead of working on the projects I should .... yay for ADHD. I have been rewatching criminal minds i am weird about GOT I don't really have a strong opinion either way about the last season, but overall it's a great show.
Yay for finishing the things. Here I am cutting stock for my little shop while I have already got stock. Cutting out new designs and testing them. Definitly NOT looking at my wall of UFO bags, na ahh, not even a glace.
Hahahaha
We once loaded 2 PODs in the pouring rain and stored them for 3 months. Even though the PODs were in a climate controlled warehouse, I fully know the musty smell. 😂. So great you finished the shirt. Satisfaction is a wonderful thing! 🎉
Oh god! That’s horrible! 🤣😂
@@Costuming_Drama Yeah. Wet cardboard and wet moving pads. But you can’t control the weather. 🤣
Hooray for the finished pirate shirt! As one who shares almost all your measurements, I suggest making larger underarm gussets to give yourself the bust width you need without having to make the shoulders so wide. Some wide is good, of course, to get the off-the shoulder effect, but on me that means they’re almost mid-bicep and I find the quarter bicep spot looks better, but then I’ve got to get that bust width from somewhere so I just make the underarm gusset bigger. I’m about to start my corset for a fitting with Michelle, and I need to do that before school starts again!
Oh I hope your fitting goes well!
The jibber jabber is the best part!❤
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Shirt Sliding hack: I have three. I use crochet cotton or very fine ribbon for these. Works for both modern and historic undergarments.
1: If there is a neck slit, I add two thin ties at the very bottom on the inside that I can ties around the center of my bra/tucked into corset/attached to busk posts. Keeps it generally from sliding back.
2: If that isn't possible or won't look good, I add small ties that I can have at the shoulders/shoulder seam to my bra/corset strap. Sometimes it works on the head of the shoulder to the strap and others I put it so it ties around the top of the cup on the strap. It can depend on the neckline type and where it can hide the easiest.
3: If threads dangling on the inside of the shirt aren't your thing, you can make a thread bar and pass something under it to tie off onto your undergarments.
The one I don't do as much but has worked as well is loops with snaps. Snaps sometimes are visible or can come undone. A thin tie from fine ribbon or crochet cotton works a lot better in my opinion.
Thank you! I will give these a try!!
I hand sewed my own of these two years ago. It is my favorite sleep shirts too!. I'm currently working on another one but I'm embroidering dragons on the cuffs and its taking ages. Always appreciate the realness of the two year wip
Ooo that sounds awesome!
Pirate Shirts are fun ❤
They totally are!
Hahaha, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who puts readers on over distance glasses...
Oh, armpit gussets.... they're wonderful, but of the last four pairs I've done I've had to unpick and redo at least a quarter...
I'm still dreaming about what project is next, though I really should be looking at adding some padding to my canvas arms for under my armour and maybe that kirtle I've been trying to get to for over a year... I did at least get my husband's final swimsuit done for his birthday, and got a wearable mockup done for the swimsuit I'm copying for myself. Must remember to mark down the changes I need to make before I forget though!
It could be the weight of the collar causing it to fall back. You also could need a little longer collar. Try attaching about a dozen clear seed beads in the inside by the point of the slit. Then wear the shirt. If it fixes it, you could hide weights in that tiny reinforcement triangle, with decoration, or adding buttons. My mom used to stuff the points of collars with seed beads to keep them laying down.
That’s an interesting idea! I’ll give it a try!
My niece recently said she wanted a piratey shirt, so that might be my trial run before making my own- way less fabric to make hers (and figure out mistakes) than to do mine, lol! But I’ll have to work fast so she doesn’t grow too much before it’s finished!!! Which brings me to my longest WIP: a crochet baby blanket I started 10 or 11 years ago 😅 To be fair, I did forget about it for several years and I was working and going to school when I started it. Someday I’ll finish it and hopefully know a baby/pregnant friend to give it to 🫣
I’m watching various baking shows right now while I wait for A Discovery of Witches to be released on Netflix. I adore the books so I’m really hoping the show is good too 🤞🏻
I’ll see your 10 years and raise you another 19… my late mother’s sweater for my brother which ended up being for her grandson 😂
Also ADOW is coming to Netflix?!?! Went to the Con in Cardiff 2019. My best friend and I bonded over ADOW and I’ve met Deb twice. I’ll keep my eyes peeled! (If you love the books you will ADORE the series. I promise. Incredibly well done).
Oh I did enjoy the show. It’s a bit campy, but I liked it!
A little tip I found for watching something while working on stuff, is having the audio for vision impaired, because there will be a narrating voice for the most important things going on in the scenes. :) You don't have to have all your focus on the movie or show and it can be really funny at times. XD
Thanks for the tip!
I love watching people finish WIPs! It gives me hope that I might eventually get to mine... And congratulations on the tiny, even, stitches. Worthy of Bernadette or Nicole!
I was going to ask if you watched any of the Olympics, & am so happy to hear that your star clips were inspired by one of the Chinese gymnasts! ☆☆☆
Hahahaha Nicole makes fun of my stitches and called them princess stitches because they are too tiny! 🤣😂
@Costuming_Drama Only through envy! But I've seen her whalebone stays: pot, kettle, black!
If you put a laced closure at the top you can adjust the fit and the weight of the laces might add a bit more weight at the front. Or some heavy wooden buttons? I think it looks fine.
Yes, I fully agree with you and may do that!
between you, Bernadette and Nicole, I almost have all my seam allowances catch stitched down! 😂😂 Now on to the hem!! been listening to the second book in the Blood and Ash series - I love listening to racy vampire fantasy novels on the train...it's so inappropriate but totally fine at the same time!
Hahahaha that’s funny!
Nicole, just add a 1/8" tie at the base of the collar and neckline to keep tied.
I like how you've walked us through this. I've made a couple and have the same problem that you do with the neck. I'm going to try to cut the neck hole wider and gather it under the collar to pull it up on the shoulder. If the shoulder is still too low, I may gather under the shoulder reinforcements. Wish me luck. I'll keep it more accurate for other people
I think those sound like great ideas!
I have to say I love the hat
*looks round my craft room at bags o’ projects… how many years has that been sitting?!? Currently rebuilding a men’s dress shirt in to a puffed sleeve blouse. And cleaning the above mentioned mess up. Congrats on finishing a UFO🛸
I've started a tiny whiteboard, because I've got a new sewing set up and lots to do, thanks for the inspiration. Neckerchief to close it, in my opinion (from an old Commander and Masters of the sea video). The last season of GoT is my favourite, partially because I'm not a fan. Also, *spoilers* the little girl who is actually her people's war chief who kills the giant is my favourite character ever.
Oh I love her too!
This post came out at a perfect time. I'm in the middle of sewing my first pirate shirt, and I have not cut the shoulder and front slits, yet. I'm glad you brought up the shoulder shifting to the back because I am worried about that as well. I remembered instructions from "Fit for Real People" by Pati Palmer and Marta Alto about forward shoulders. Their instructions adjusted the shoulder seam to run in a straight line from the neck to the center of the shoulder. Then they have you set the top of the sleeve in at this new seam point that that is shifted forward. Very hard to explain without pictures. I also don't know how to adapt this to the pirate shirt. I'm hoping you figure it all out and let all of us know. Thanks for the great post!
I will make a video about testing all of these things out at some point soon!
Yay! I love to see your videos. ❤
Yay! Thank you!
Love it! Your tiny felling stitches are perfect!
Thank you! 😊
I have tried making a pirate shirt twice so far - one white, one black - and unfortunately I haven't been happy with the fit either. Will have to keep trying I guess. Really appreciate seeing how the shoulder and arm gather reinforcement pieces go in! It's a good thing I enjoy hand sewing.
I think I need to set the sleeve in farther back. So like if the body were played out flat, have the top of the sleeve be above the “T” of the neck hole… maybe that will help you too!
I believe it’s sliding back because the shirt wasn’t designed in the day to be worn open. One would’ve had a cravat tying it closed. And would also have had a waistcoat over it providing friction at the back as well to keep it from sliding down. When you take a garment out of the context it was designed to be worn in it will behave differently… you know how we get upset when we see someone complaining about how uncomfortable it is wearing a corset next to their skin? Yeah, ‘cause that’s not how it was worn in the day? Ahem…
I would argue that they probably did wear it this way outside the context of extreme wealth or formal occasions. Pirates, farmers, factory workers, etc, did not go around on the daily wearing cravats while in hot weather and heavy working conditions. I think the fit issues have to do with my body and the construction needing to be tweaked, as all fit issues are.
Also, I wear a corset next to my skin all the time and it’s just fine if my corset fits well🤷♀️
Love the shirt! Great job, I just don't have the patience for that much hand sewing. On the news front, I finished my latest book, it's in edits, then goes out for ARCs early next week! Once I get that done I'm off to THREE book cons in less than 8 weeks. OOOF.
Omg! How exciting!! I hope you have an amazing time!
The shirt looks great! Finished reading "I Kissed Shara Wheeler" today and finished watching Season 7 of Outlander and Season 2 of Interview with the Vampire, since your last video. Love them both. You need to watch "My Lady Jane" It's great & my friend was a writer on it. Finished a new Regency day dress and a petticoat for underneath. Also knitting a sweater vest. And don't feel bad, I'm also easily amused. Star clips are super cute! I have a thing for stars. I feel the needing to only sew while rewatching. To the end.
Oh yes! People have been telling me that my lady Jane is great. I’ll have a look!
making the collar closeable will help with the sliding back, also see if you can have someone watch you move your arms and stuff around in it to see if it's catching in the back. Another possibility is that it's just that even though it's big and billowy it's not cut for busts. I have that problem with just about every men's shirt. The fabric slowly creeps up because of the chest bumps, and then falls back over my shoulders.
I do agree that it’s part of the issue for sure!
So enjoyed this video! Really liked the bed chats -- had forgotten how much I enjoyed those. Like lots of folks, I just finished Season 2 of Interview With The Vampire, and loved it. Also watched both seasons of "Dark Winds" (Season 3 due out in 2025), which is coming to Netflix soon, and highly recommend.
Ooo I will look out for that!
Great videos. You could make some lacing at the neck , then it can be done up as much as you like. X
Good suggestion!!
I love your new shirt. I finished one myself not long ago, i made mine with floral fabric and short puffed sleeves made also of rectangles. Now I wear it as kind of a historybounding garment! I started a Jane Austen movie Marathon. I just finished the 2007 adaptation of Northanger Abbey wich is my favorite after Sense and Sensibility with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet. I know it is a unpopular opinion but I don't really like Pride and Prejudice with Kira Knightley. Please don't kill me in the comments 😅😂
Hahahahaah I’m not a huge pride and prejudice fan either. I’m all Emma 2020!
Yay I can’t wait to finish watching this video! Put it on for morning coffee and breakfast background but now I have a show to get ready for. You’re inspiring me to actually finish my own shirt sewing WIP that has been sitting unfinished for far too long!
Just as an aside, I work in theaters doing hair/makeup/wardrobe work (mostly for opera and ballet but I also get to do Broadway shows when the tours come to my city from time to time!) and the neck headlamp thingy has saved my life MANY a time backstage, but I’ve never thought to break it out for my more relaxing sewing ventures. I will have to try that out!
Yay I hope that it helps!!
I have been re-watching Belgravia and reading the Belgravia novel by Julian Fellowes. It's pretty good. I also have re-watched The Guilded Age, another Julian Fellowes creation. I love it and can't wait for the next season.
Oooo I’ll check that out!
Yay! Linen Pirate shirts are awesome for Nor Cal ren fair! 💜
Totally!
You have to have at least one WIP that is years (plural) old! The sewing gods demand it ;) But well done for finishing it, and you have also reminded me that I need to get on with my own shirt (with extra protection in the shoulders). I wonder whether there isn't much you can really do about the shirt slipping back when worn. As I should imagine back in the day men would have had at least two more layers on top the shirt which would have kept it in place. You could try sewing a line of buttonhole stiches along the opening of the neck line to keep it in place, which kinda defeats the object of having a wide open neck. But could work - I'm going to try it for me shirt when I get around to making it. But keep up with the chaos vlogs they are always a lot of fun to watch and makes you stand out from other sewing RUclipsrs x
Aww thank you!
You have rekindled my desire to make a pirate shirt
Do it!!!
I have that light it is awesome my favorite sewing light ❤
I have a pirate shirt WIP for 3 years 😂 One day I'll get there!
I have the same issue of falling back on some of the shirts I own, and I'm not sure why they do that sonetimes or how to fix it. Thats an interesting thing to investigate!
Im so happy you talked about the star clip at the end because I had noticed and my first thought was that i didnt know they had this in star shape 👀 damn they're so cool!!!
Happy to see you, hope you're doing well ❤
Omg they have so many cute shapes! I also just ordered snowflakes!!!
To the end. ❤ currently falling down a bag making rabbit hole. I’m working on a really complex bag and I love it!
Ooooo sometimes those complex ones are the most satisfying!!
If you make it again time yourself with no movies . 3-5 hours would be my estimate. When you shared a bit about Mimis moving it reminded me of one expensive experience i had .😢
AHAHAHAHAHA I would guess more like 50. I’m the slowest sewer!!!
@@Costuming_Drama I'm sure your not that slow! I watch HaylieMarieVintage and she gives us interesting breakdowns after her reveal plus talks about sewing in other parts of the world. I time myself using the micro wave timer. Say I put it on for 60 min and then I work away till the timer goes off. I take a break. I've learned a lot about myself and how I sew. You might be surprised how long or short different steps take! 😀💝
Many of us carry extra at the back of our necks (wether muscle or fats). My belief is this is the cause of drifting shirt. The round cut at the neck back of typtical shirts may help.
Got to see "American Princess" & am amazed at how much is accurate to real life.
I think the point of the neck gusset is that it rounds it out more. I might try making that gusset bugger
@@Costuming_Drama over the years I have seen so many ways of making changes in clothing. I have yet to completely hand stitch a garment. You have my admiration on that. Gussets certainly have a place. Keep up the fun in finding ways to do things!
Oh man, I too have a like modern pirate shirt going on right now and I recently set it aside for a bit because it’s turning out very large (because my hips are wide and I honestly overcompensated for it) and I haven’t decided how I want to deal with it yet. I am in the midst of trying to convert my wardrobe to natural fibers because it’s been such a miserable summer for me and we have many miserable summers ahead so I’m getting into my stash of nice thin billowy cottons and linens to reproduce some of my favorite but very sweaty polyester blouses and do some bounding type pieces too.
For my shirt I wanted it a little more modern so I cut the neckline smaller and instead gathered the excess into the shoulder seams and I will just have like a small curved collar piece. The body of it is just really big and since I won’t be wearing it with stays or something shapely over top, I’m debating gathering maybe the bust area into a smaller band kind of like a shirtwaist? Idk, time will tell
I recently bought a pair of Guggenhein 9in dressmaking scissors. Not done any serious cutting yet, but feel quite nice. Coated handles so no click at the end of the snip......didnt think I would miss the sound! People with sensory issues might like that though.
Oh I have a pair of those as well and they are a delight!
I would try making larger neck gussets. The neck gussets are there to accommodate for the slope of your shoulders and keep the neck of the shirt on your neck. I imagine the small gussets are good for people with more square shoulders and larger gussets for more sloped shoulders… Possibly? I just finished two of my own pirate shirts, so I am also trying to figure out the geometry and how to get the fit I am looking for.
Ooooo good call! I will try that!
The fabric for my next big project arrived in the mail :) its the gown for the masquerade on Milwaukee next march 😀
Oh yay!!! I can’t wait to see what you make!!
I’ve been trying to solve the collar sliding back for the last few months!! My current theory is that we tend to measure in the middle of our necks. But with this style of shirt the bottom of the collar sits at the very base of our neck. Think about what it’s attaching to! Those neck gussets and shoulder reenforcement are on our shoulders! That’s the point where we have to measure around for our collar
Yes! I think the trick is setting the center of the sleeves an inch or two back from the neck hole….
I sleep in my bernadette banner pirate shirt. Usually paired with pj pants as its from a heavier material.
Sounds so comfy!!
I started this last night, then my cat demanded I go to bed with him, even though he doesn't stay in the bed with me, so I finished this morning.
Sometimes, fabric do be like that, not straight, even on the grain lines. I think the shirt came out cute. As to a way to hide the ends of the shoulder reinforcement, what if you sewed in the opposite side gusset, then the shoulder reinforcement, then the same side gusset on top of it? That would hide the end of it between the gussets (I haven't checked to see if someone else suggested this). It came out cute, though, I agree with that, and looks like a nice thing to just throw on when you want to be cool, as well as when you want to pirate it up.
I am currently in the middle of a book called Human Errors: A Panorama of our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes by Nathan H Lents. It's informative and amusing. I'm also rereading the Wicked Witches of the Midwest series by Amanda M Lee. I have my library all set up again and counted my books for the amusement of a discord server.and I have 363 books on my physical shelves, which is about 27' 1" of books (I have 25 Kalax shelves full of books, and each shelf is 13 inches). That amused me to find out. I also got $3 of credit to use at the Friends of the Library store from the summer reading challenge and used that to get 7 new to me books that are in that number....I will read them soon....or eventually. They all sounded really interesting, though 2 I got I'd read before (The Invisible Life of Addie Larue and The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O).
As to watching, I'm pondering rewatching Psych or Dead Boy Detectives. I tend to rewatch more things when I can craft, which I should be able to start doing (slowly) at the end of the month. I'm so excited for that. It'll take about 6 months for my wrists to be fully healed, but I should be at the point where I can craft for a bit at the end of this month as it'll be 6 weeks out from the second surgery.
My longest WIP is 4 years (it took me 4 years in college to crochet a lap blanket because who has time and I took summer classes 3 years and really, who has time during those?) :) So, I get the feeling of "This needs to be done, I don't care how, but it must be done" :)
Oh that reminds me to finish dead boy detective agency!
I have the riding backwards issue too. I think it is because of the gathers, the shirts back is way more heavy. I might try your suggestion of making the collar longer in the front
Let me know what you find out
“You neckhole!” 😂 I too am easily amused
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I have spring loaded Gingher Shears. They tire my hand pretty quickly. I only use them on heavy fabric. I am scissor rich in Gingher brand, the spring loaded are the only ones I don’t ’like’…they have their rare place in my cutting world so they are still in the collection. 🌈🌈🦋🦋
Yeah, I am mostly gingher too. The ones I traded for these were gingher, and I think I got the better end of that deal!
I made a pirate shirt from Bernadette's video and basically had the same fit issues you did. I'd really like to try another one with shorter shoulders and some way for it not to slide back. I like how those shoulder reinforcements look as well, and I've been itching for some hand sewing.
Yeah, I think the shoulder seam of the arms needs to be set farther back than the neck hole. I’ll try that out at some point and see what happens!
Hey Noelle! I made a pirate shirt over a year ago from a maker who didn't have 5 steps for yours. Mine would fit 100% better if I'd known then what I know now. I thought about redoing it last month, but now I know it's just not salvageable, there are too many things just wrong. I'm a little heartbroken because I love the color (mossy green) but the fabric is a linen blend and it's just too dense.
Kudos to finishing it and it looks fantastic. Please update us when you figure out how to keep it from sliding backwards.
Oh booo! I’m sorry that it’s not going to work out, but happy you know now!!
I’m literally currently planning an 18th c shirt for myself out of a rainbow zebra jungle print on black as part of an EDS/pride/summer outfit 😂. My late mother’s longest WIP was a knitting one for nearly 30 years: Started in 1978 for my first brother, picked up again in 1982 for the second brother, finally completed in 2007 for the nephew! Actually, I take that back: I’ve still got one of her WIPs which I thought about completing which she started, I assume, sometime around I was born and I will be 50 next year!
Omg thank you for making me feel better about this WIP!
@@Costuming_Drama welcome!
I've spent a lot of time knitting a couple slouchy market bags while watching the Olympics the past couple weeks. Some of the longer events were great for making a lot of knitting progress- I should be able to finish the second one in a day or two.
and as for ufos/wips...I had a knitted hat that I paused for like...3-4 years in the middle of before finishing it last summer, so 2 years isn't that bad! and I've got some embroidery for visible mending on a pair of pj pants that's been in the hoop for over a year...I should figure out how I want to finish those before I need them for fall nights.
Oh that does make me feel better!
It took a while, but the results look great 😃
I love pirate shirts. I've got some fine linen but I'm not ready to commit to cutting into it yet. I think I've got to practice on some sheets first if I'm doing anything without a pattern.
That seems like a better idea than what I did 🤣😂
@@Costuming_Drama I'm just really cautious with linen since it's often hard to come by around my way. I'm also having commitment issues with sewing projects since my size has been fluctuating. I don't want to start a project just to have it not fit by the time I finish it 😕
Nice job! It really looks wonderful. I made one a few years ago following Bernadette’s video. Mine was complicated by it being for my grandson for Halloween. It had to fit him at school and later over his winter coat. It was actually fun to make though I did it all by machine.
Not doing much of anything. I don’t have the energy right now. Just re-listening to favourite books. Meljean Brook’s steam punk series though the whole thing isn’t in audibles. Bummer but still a fun listen! I have to play find the sewing room but energy just isn’t with me right now.
It’s summer, now is the time for chilling and relaxing! Fund the sewing room later! 🤣
I watched game of thrones but thought the books were better. Love the pirate shirt and I have the same problem with clothes trying to strangle me.❤
Someday I will read the books, but I am waiting for him to be done first!
Handsewing new elastic into the waistband of a thrifted silk skirt. It's kind of messy, but I'm using what I could salvage of the original thread, so the color match should disguise my sloppiness.
It’s a waistband! Nobody should be looking that close anyway!
Yay!!
Dropping the neck down by an inch in the front is the right idea, but if you then center the sleeve on the shoulder re-inforcement, all you have done is make the back longer. To drop just the neck forward, you need to center the sleeve over the old shoulder line, i.e. an inch or so above the shoulder re-inforcement strip. If you fold the shirt completely flat, the neck should not be on the top fold, but sit an inch or so below, and the front and back hems should align. Hope this makes any sense, good work, though - Arrrrrgh!
YES! We absolutely figured this out after the fact! Will do next time! Thank you for the help!
GOT - I was satisfied with the last season. I was a hostage for the binge - and it was so long. I found the endings of the characters' arcs to be true for the journeys. The little glimpses of their 'after' also worked for me. So, have you watched Flea Bag ? The first season was an emotional roasting for me - but at the end of the second, which is the end end, I was glad I had taken the journey. The writing is brilliant. Also, I love the shirt. Congratulations on finishing.
I tried it once and didn’t get into it, but everyone says it’s great, so maybe I will try again!!
Catching up on my RUclips faves between the chaos that is August. But I just finished my travel book (only read when flying, typically picked up at a Hudson News lol) Tress of the Emerald Seas, and my Kindle book (Lady Hardcastle mystery series on Kindle. Unlimited). Both were fun reads in different ways. I have 3 in my TBR pile to choose from next but not sure which one, nor do I have trips planned lol
That’s a very fun system!!
@@Costuming_Drama and then there is my Audible book lol. I'm never bored :D
One of the things I do on my shirt is to measure my shoulders & gather the center back so the sleeves set maybe 1/2" past the drop. (The gathers end up in the collar).
Hope it works for you!
On the collar: I will iron it so that the CF matches the CB point and set the neck gusset centered on the "side point".
Thank you! I’ll give it a try!
This is not related, but I just watched, for at least the 2nd time, Downtown Tailoring’s video on Ban-Rol hems. This looks like a really great technique for rolled hems. Has anyone here used it? In more related news, I am currently reading Hamnet, and about to start re-reading Jurassic Park. Both for book clubs. For shows, I’m mostly watching RUclips, for example, Escape to Rural France.
You need to round out the hole towards the back. My creations did that, I rounded out more and more until they stopped. In the center back my hole is about four centimeters from the ironed crease going the other way, and then another centimeter or so for seam allowance. I have a little buffalo hump from my days of unsubstituted hypothyroidism
My button up shirts ride up and back like that. So do my t-shirts. I am looking forward to seeing what you do to fix it.
Hahahaha me too!
Thank you for sharing your journey, so encouraging!
Hooray for Finishing!😀
Congratulations 🎉
I hope to respond to any questions in the video asap.
In the meantime, I hope you & your loved ones are well 😀🤞
I've been using my new singer, and enjoying it much.
Did you get my email about the sewing machine foot?
I did and I am not ignoring you! I’m just waiting to see if a couple other people email me because they had specific requests and I’d like to make sure everyone gets what they need! Will get back to you soon though!! 💖
@@Costuming_Drama thanks so much for the closure.
I figured something was going on. Then I thought maybe I had best check in about it.
No big rush, just me trying to be sure things went ok.
That was a lovely video! Thanks so much for sharing your work and thoughts & research.
I have had the same problem with "pirate shirts", so I am very interested in what solutions you eventually discover (to keep the neck from sliding back)
The shirt came out cute and has me eying my black linen. LOL Do I need a black pirate shirt??? Probably not. I'm feeling a bit better had to discontinue a medicine but I'm still not 100%. Hopefully I'll feel better soon. Reading: Just finished a book from my favorite author Samantha Young (she write really good romances but they are romance books for sure). Watching: whatever I can find online to occupy my mind. Projects? I have two lovely silk projects that were commission from a good friend, but I head back to work next week sooooo it will be slow going. Additionally I think subconsciously I'm trying to will cooler weather into being so I have been working on little felt Christmas mice ornaments, because I can work on them in the living room from the comfort of my recliner while watching something. :) Hope you are feeling better!
Ong little felt Christmas mice sound so cute! Please will some cooler weather my way as well!! 💖💖
@@Costuming_Drama LOL! I'm a few hours south of you in the Valley so we are even hotter down here. We tend to fry when the heat waves come. But yes I need fall to come. I'm tired of being hot.
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If you find a solution to the sliding from front to back, please do a video about it. I suffer from the same problem with all my shirts. Tucked-in or belted they all slide backwards. I am sized about like you are so I am curious what you will find. Thank you for the various videos you have done. I really enjoy watching them.
I will get to the bottom of it! (With machine sewn and cheap fabric 🤣)
I wonder if some sort of full bust adjustment would help? I know like modern mens shirts slide back like that on me. It would basically end up with the front being a bit longer.
Hmmmmm I will give that a shot!
I am still doing small things to my linen shirt. The shifting neck hole thing is beyond my ability to solve, so I'm looking for ways to figure that out. I've been playing a game called The Talos Principle and reading Zack Davisson's book about Japanese mythical creatures, The Ultimate Guide to Japanese Yokai.
Oooo that sounds interesting!!
I want to make another 18th c shirt for my partner and one for me but with ruffles at the neck
Oooo that sounds nice
Could a slight weights be sewed into the front of the neck hole and collar? I always tend to believe the weight of the collar and shirt is heavier in the back, pulling everything back. 🤔
Yes, maybe!
Since you offset the neckline, that is probably why your front and back hems aren’t even.
Yes, however, it’s uneven, unevenly 🤣
Linen is very wiggly.
Yes!
Thank you for the hand stitching inspiration... which fabric do u recommend 🤔 ... I will buy it at BRITEX cuz I live in San Francisco 😘🍄 BTW reading Emily griffin HEART OF THE MATTER 🥰📖
Omg there are so many places to get fabric in SF that are not nearly as expensive! Just get yourself some linen and go to town, but Britex is for VERY special fabrics. Save your money on the staples!
@@Costuming_Drama 👌🏽 got it 🥰
Oh yeah…. My unfinished pirate shirt… now where did I put that? Good lord, that thing made me crazy. I also had to cut down the width of the body- after I put in both sleeves and side seams. 🫠 just about killed me. I put it aside at least a year ago in the middle of shoulder reinforcements.. guess I need to drag it out and get it done. Thanks for the reminder!😅🎉❤
You will be so happy when it is done, but oof, yeah… I am just gonna make another one to test all my plans rather than relive mine! Too much work!
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