Projects Learning to Sew Shirt Collars I wasn’t thrilled with the way the collar turned out on my muslin test shirt so I went back to the drawing board before... Read More
Patterns Men’s Shirt Pattern and Test Fit The majority of my men’s shirt pattern is finished. Yay! I ran into quite a few snags during the drafting process, and this pattern... Read More
Patterns Shirt Sloper Continued So I finally finished my men’s shirt sloper by adding the necessary ease across the upper back and chest area. I am going for... Read More
Patterns Men’s Shirt Sloper Um…yeah…that’s a lot of paper. During the past few weeks I have accumulated this mass of paper in my attempt to draft a men’s... Read More
Projects Let the Shirtmaking Begin The best motivation for me to start a new project is to go out and buy the fabric. After I’ve already spent money on... Read More
Miscellaneous TaylorTailor on Denim Debate I want to give a huge thanks to Ryan at the Denim Debate for posting about my denim project. The Denim Debate is a... Read More
Miscellaneous Selvedge Denim Recap I have been wearing my jeans for a few weeks now. The denim is softening a little bit, but they are still pretty stiff.... Read More
Projects Selvedge Denim Jeans I finally finished my jeans and couldn’t be happier with the way they turned out. I used a 12.25 oz, raw, selvedge denim from... Read More
Patterns Second Muslin Pair of “Jeans” Once my pattern was complete, I wanted to make another pair of test “jeans” out of muslin before diving into actual denim. Since this... Read More
Patterns Men’s Jeans Sloper and Pattern I decided I wanted to start from scratch and make my own jeans pattern after not being completely happy with the results of the... Read More
Projects First Muslin Pair of “Jeans” I figured that the best way to learn how to make a pair jeans was to start with a commercial pattern. I chose Burda... Read More
Projects Selvedge Denim I’ve become obsessed with making my own pair of jeans. Why? I, like many people, spend about 95% of my waking hours wearing jeans.... Read More