All Day (everyday) Shirt

Up to number three, here comes another All Day Shirt with short sleeves for Flipper.
 

I wrote a little blog post for Oliver + S about that most simple of alterations - shortening sleeves. But it needs to be said that simple as it is, I still cut the first double gauze version without remembering to flare the seam allowance of the sleeve. So we can all do with some reminders sometimes, right. Here's the blog post: Oliver + S: Long Sleeves to Short Sleeves

Oddly, it looks like the sleeves are slightly longer on this shirt compared to the first two. But they're not. I cut at the same point on the pattern and I did the same 1&1/2" hem. While Flipper wasn't complaining, I'd decided that the TRON shirt was fractionally too short, so this one is bout 3/4" longer in the body. That meant that the cutting line for the straight hem was the height of the side seam, so I just folded up the curved shirt tail portion and cut straight across. Then left 1&1/4" open side vents at the bottom of each side seam.

The fabric needs to be mentioned, right?! All along I'd been searching for a tropical print with a dark background that wasn't completely floral but wasn't like a surfboards and campervan quilting cotton either.

I found this Rifle Paper Co. Cotton & Steel fabric at Brave Fabrics and with a nod from the bloke it was game on.

I mucked up the pattern matching across the front placket this time (after thinking it through for ages then miscalculating the overlap). But how about that chest pocket?

The only way to put something in your pocket is to behead the birdie!  Bwahahaha.

The fabric is a quilting cotton, so I'm not going to rave on about its fabric-y qualities, but you know, it's not bad. He's worn it a few times and it's softening up nicely. It certainly has a better hand than the basic quilting cottons I've seen at the big chain stores.

I'd wondered about which colour buttons I'd need, not imagining for a moment I'd have anything that worked. Then these little pale blue ones jumped out of my button stash at me, and dang if they weren't perfect!

Three short sleeved shirts. He can't complain can he?! And since he doesn't grow, I figure that should do me sewing for him for about three years!

Pattern: All Day Shirt by Liesl + Co
Size: L
Fabric: Paradise Garden Midnight by Rifle Paper Co for Cotton & Steel 
Modifications: Straight hem with side vents and short sleeves
Notions: Buttons from my stash via Buttonmania backroom sale