Smaller Big Floral Shirt

The previous project was a more wearable shirt made from the remnants of a more ridiculous shirt, and this one is, too.

The ridiculous shirt project this time was the peter pan collar trapeze shirt I made at the end of last year; the more wearable shirt is once again the heavily hacked Burda 7831, the no darts version.

 

 It is, predictably, a very loud shirt.

The "likely rayon but I'm not entirely sure" fabric was fairly easy to work with, although I did find it helpful to use a piece of wood to hold things down after pressing them into place. (No, not a clapper.  I don't own a proper clapper.)

The problem I had with this shirt was that the front necklines did not want to ease into the neckband.  I went back and forth, stitching and picking stitches out and stitching again, several times, all along thinking that my propensity for skipping neckline stay stitching had finally become a problem.

I finally got it to a point where I said Good Enough, and went ahead and stitched down the pressed edge of the collar stand. 

 

And then I remembered that the center front of the no-darts version of this pattern has the edge being where to cut for no band, and a line farther in to cut on to attach a band.  So.  I had inadvertently cut the pieces a touch too wide at the center front, and that's where the excess that had to be eased in had come from.  I immediately knew how I could fix it, and just as quickly knew I didn't wanna.  It works as it is.

Basic serging on the seam allowances, and, as usual, I pressed every edge up before starting to sew, and stitched from the inside, following the edge of the pressed hem, and not worrying about maintaining a consistent spacing from the lower edge.  The variations aren't obvious, and no-one's going to be measuring my seam depth.

Oh, I was also able to use the same buttons as the big ridiculous shirt made from the same fabric, which amused me.

 

The back view shows just how huge this print is, since there are no print elements repeated in this space--oh, there are similar elements, but they're not, actually, the same. 

I did get a print element on one sleeve very close to the same element on the back, but I decided not to be bothered by that.  I had been bothered by a print element on the other sleeve ending up close to the same print element on the front of the shirt, so I did re-cut that sleeve.  I didn't have enough fabric left to re-cut the other sleeve, not if I wanted to pay attention to print direction...which...may not have been necessary with this print, but I wanted to be consistent.

 

(Also, I thrifted some cardigans the other day that will coordinate nicely with this shirt, so the back may not be seen as often, anyway.  East Asian Romantic Auntie Style is not a problem.)