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This shirt is made from a now-defunct Hobbycraft Made to Measure pattern. The idea was brilliant: you entered your measurements into an app and received a PDF pattern customised for your size and shape. It meant all the usual quirks – height, shoulders, bust – were accounted for. Sadly the app has since closed down, which is a real shame. I’m glad I downloaded my patterns before it disappeared.

Pattern adjustments

Although the pattern was made to measure, it still needed a fair few tweaks:

The shoulder yoke came out too wide, so I took out ½″ from each side.

To balance this, I added ½″ into the sleeve length, above and below the elbow.

The torso, oddly, was too fitted. I added ½″ at each side seam from the armscye down (a total of 2″ across the body).

So even a “custom” pattern isn’t always perfect – but with some adjustments, it worked out well.

Fabric and style

I’ve made several versions of this shirt, which shows how versatile the pattern is. A couple have a stand collar (just the band, no upper collar), and a couple more where I extended the stand collar to make a tie-neck. The pattern handled all sorts of fabrics nicely:

lightweight cotton

broderie anglaise

a cotton viscose with gold dobby spots from Fabric Godmother – my favourite of the lot.

Notes on sewing

Sleeve placket and cuff: I swapped in my own drafted pattern. The original worked fine, but I prefer my version because it suits the way I roll my sleeves up at work.

Buttons: I use blossom-shaped buttons from an eBay seller on all my shirts and blouses – they’re a nice finishing touch.

Pressing: Absolutely key for shirts. Press the yoke out carefully, and use a tailor’s ham to shape the sleeve head. It makes all the difference to the final finish.

Final thoughts

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I recently made a ruffle jumpsuit for my daughter using the NewLook 6444 pattern. I usually prefer to use PDF patterns and a projector - if I think I’ll make the item several times, I project onto plastic tablecloth sheets and use these as my pattern pieces. This is particularly helpful if you need to make adjustments to the pattern. I have a massive roll of plastic tablecloth from Amazon, and because it’s quite translucent in this case it was perfect for tracing the correct size off the pattern.

I was a little bit intimidated by the pattern at first because some of the steps looked a bit faffy, but it turned out to be a relatively quick sew. I made a few modifications, such as not using binding to make the elastic channel at the neck/shoulder. I found that this left a weird bit of ruffle at the top, so instead I overlocked the top edge and then folded over to make a hem and inserted the elastic there instead.

I also wasn't sure about the armhole binding, as it seemed bulky and distorted slightly. Next time I make this jumpsuit, I'm not sure I'll do the armhole binding in the way they recommended.

Overall, I'm really happy with how the jumpsuit turned out. It fits well, with a sensible amount of growing room. My daughter loves it too, and I'm sure I'll be making another one soon! Maybe in a shorts/playsuit style.

Notes on sewing:

Use a lightweight cotton fabric so that there is enough drape and the ruffle isn’t bulky.

The pattern suggested a very narrow hem at the bottom of the bodice ruffle, but that seemed a hassle and would have reduced the drape - instead I used my overlocker to do a rolled hem.

As noted above, I pinned the ruffle to the bodice (right side of bodice pinned to wrong side of ruffle) and then overlocked around the entire top edge. Then I folded over a 1/2” hem and used that as the channel for the elastic.

I'd like some feedback though, before I start?

I'm a mid - to - plus sized enbie and I don't really want to show my face cause I'm not good looking and my teeth gross me out so seeing them on (what is essentially) TV is just a whole nope.

I do have a nice voice though - I work on the phones and was the voice of the automated dialing assistant for a few years (press 1 for endless hold music).

I do know that faceless channels perform poorly, and thumbnails especially badly without a face in them.

Do you think it would be a waste of time to try? I'm not going to be making my own things, I'll be using patterns and doing things like:

Sew-along with me

Pattern Reviews

New Collection Reviews

Things like that. It would be more of a... learn as we go type of thing as I'm not an experienced seamstress (hem hem)

I love sewing and would view this as more of a hobby than a side hustle.