OTTOBRE SHIRT

Hello,

I wanted a regular fitted shirt for my 7 yo girl, and of course the fashion right now is really loose and also knit and comfortable fabrics, but I wanted something different.

I chose the pattern 27 of the Ottobre magazine Summer 3,2014 in the German edition, which my husband brought me from a business trip this year even if it was old (I'm always looking for magazines to have). It was kind of funny trying to read it as I always want to check if I'm doing it right or not.

 

The pattern was quite simple, 3 pieces as I made a sleeveless shirt.  I made a size 116 for my 7 yo girl, and the only modification I made was taking out  2cm or 0.8 inch from each side of the sleeves as it would fit better and more feminine.

 

 

First I copied the pattern and cut the fabric, with my pieces made I only put the interface to the neck instead of the buttons too, and just start sewing.

 

I had difficulties adding the neck to the shirt and in the first one I made it as I could but I decided to study what I made wrong and with the help of the book of Sandra Betzina named Power sewing (which by the way only cost me 2 usd at the Public Library sales) I realized that the shirt has to be inside the neck and not the other way around.

 

 

But the neck only in one side is not gathered to the shirt properly....  

And this is why I decided to repeat it and learn from it... doing it right this time... because I wasn't going to re-do it at this point.

 

This time the neck was perfectly done!!

 





And even though I love the white shirt she enjoyed more the Miami Dolphins shirt!!

I loved those shirts and I would do them again and again with different fabrics and maybe I could put sequins in the neck or made a shirt with this back )(. I don't know. What do you think???

At the end we went for dessert  to a Dolphins Game!!! Go Dolphins!!! 

Love S