Raglan T-11

[aryanhwy]

Today I embarked on The Shirt.

I'm following the geometry of this site. I drew out the same figure on a piece of scratch paper and labelled it with all the dimensions I'd taken from Joel. I read on another webpage the suggestion to make the body of the shirt a 60x60cm square; that was 14cm wider than the shoulder-breadth measurement I took, and would fit loose enough around the chest as best as I could tell, so I decided to go with that. The end result actually seems rather small; I thought that it would be more floofy/baggy, but I guess this is going to be a more slim fitting shirt. That's ok; if I get around to making a doublet, it will sit nicer and bunch less.

The sleeves are also 60cm long, and 29cm high, with a 3cm seam allowance so that I had plenty to do nice finished seams, following the instructions here. Sewing the seams in both sleeves is what I accomplished today. I was planning to take pictures documenting progress all the way, but honestly, I'm not sure that pictures of seams on white linen are really going to be all that interesting, plus, the seams are out of reach and I'm too comfy to get up out of my chair to get them. Tomorrow I need to calligraph a scroll and make cheese, and I hope to sew the sleeves into the body of the shirt and do the side seams of the shirt.

Comments

[armillary.livejournal.com]

I used Tudor Tailor last time I made a shirt. Works pretty well, and seems pretty much the same as your pattern. Also, ren shirts are generally to your knees, so you don't need braies under your hose.