Small Shirt

I have not been posting, here, much of the doll clothes I've been making.  This is mostly because I haven't been making as many, but I am getting ready to send a box of doll stuff to a friend, and I'm finally making myself sit down and sew the things I've been planning for that.

The one I'm sharing here is another attempt at a proper menswear-style shirt, with front band and stand collar, although this one is smaller than the version I made previously for a vintage Ken, and, also, I realized that I did not want to subject my friend to having to deal with fastening wonky working buttonholes at that scale, so I used the smallest 0000 vintage snaps I had (I have modern 0000 snaps that are not as small.)

 

I didn't add fusible webbing inside the collar to act as interfacing, and that's a slight regret.  I also didn't do snaps at the cuffs, as much because I realized the intended doll's hands will fit through the cuffs if they're tacked closed as it was because I didn't have anymore of the white buttons.

I did do a little pleat in the back of this shirt, because the old Blythe-size shirt pattern I (mostly) used had one. (It's my own pattern.) 

I forgot to take a photo with a proper ruler, to give a sense of scale, but I was able to crop this photo to include a bit of the cutting mat on my sewing table.

I still don't think I could have a chance of making this shirt from anything but the most delicate cottons.  This has become the closest I've gotten to wanting Liberty tana lawn for anything--still, this second-hand, "leftover from someone else buying a human-size shirt and cutting it up for their own doll clothes" fabric worked really well.