Come on girls the Androgyny is kicking in and we need to be in on the action!

Right, so lets cut to the chase.

In college I'm learning to make a shirt!! So happy as the 'boy meets girl' look is coming in to style and I love  a pretty shirt! 

I haven't made my shirt yet but I have the pattern!

Here it is... Just for you!

This is a little complicated because there is so many bits BUT... Here goes!

My first draft...

Sorry about the poor image quality.

So here's the easy bits...

• Trace of the yoke and add a 1.5cm seam allowance all the way around.
• Trace the back piece off and also add 1.5cm seam allowance all the way around.
• Again trace the front and add 1.5cm seam allowance all the way around EXCEPT the Centre Front (CF for short) as this will have the button stand and overlap.

Here's where it gets a little more tricky... The sleeve.

Get a sheet of paper twice as big as the sleeve.Draw a line down the middle of this piece of paper.

Take your sleeve and split each side of your sleeve into 3 equal pieces. Slash up your lines, so the pieces are holding on by a thread, to create tentacle like pieces of paper.

Place this on to your larger sheet evenly on each side of the line you drew earlier. Stick this down at the top with tape.

Spread the two pieces either side of the middle by 8cm and stick down.

Now on the right side you spread and stick the tentacles down by 4cm and on the left by 8cm.

This is how it should look!

Now trace this off and add 1.5cm seam allowance.

For the cuff of the sleeve, just trace this off and add 1.5cm seam allowance. 

It's as easy as that!

For the pocket place your hand on a piece of paper. 

Mark 4 points around your hand.

Fold your piece of paper making sure the dots meet at the top.

Draw your top line and side lines.

Now decide the shape of the bottom and draw half.

Fold your paper the opposite way and trace.

Trace this off and add 1.5cm seam allowance.

Looks harder than it is! Right?

Mine looks like this... 

Now it gets complicated again. Collars! Take forever. Look great!

Warning!: Read carefully!

To start measure your neckline on your first draft. On mine it was 18cm.

Choose your collar stand length. I chose 5cm.

Then on top of that choose your collar length. Just to be different I chose 6cm. Normally collars are between 3cm and 4.5cm.

Add this and draw two lines going up from either end of your neck line. 

Draw a line across the top.

Draw a line for example I would draw it 5cm up, splitting your collar stand and collar. 

The rest is all very muddled and confusing but here are my images showing my first draft, adaptions and final patterns, hopefully this will help.

COLLAR STAND!

COLLAR!

Keep a look out for my shirt making post in the next few days!

Wish me luck!

XOXO