'Curiouser and curiouser....'

In the last couple of days i feel like i've made good progress with my  shirt. Each individual stage of making, once outlined is a simple process to carry out, so much so that i'm enjoying the making up of the shirt a lot. It's interesting looking at the sample shirt that we're given to analyse and break down for each individual stage and then deciding how to copy it and repeat on my shirt.

The plackett so far has been the trickiest part of making simply down to the fact that if you don't get it completely right the first time you run the risk off over working the fabric so much so that it wears thin very quickly and gets grubby. I had to unpick my plackett once because of a silly mistake i made because i didn't take my time and look at my work before going to the next stage. For example when i cut my plackett pieces and attached them to my shirt front i thought i'd made them too wide so took them off again ready to trim them down only to find out later that i had to simply make a small pleat at the bottom of the plackett on the shirt front  in order to make it the same width as the plackett pieces. 

second attempt at putting the plakett on correctly in order to get everything to line up properly.

Fortunately i didn't damage my fabric badly, only one tiny blemish which is enough to bother me but only because i've been working so closely with the fabric and am picking up on every tiny detail and wonky stitch i make, but overall i'm very happy so far with the standard of work that i've produced.

Because this is my first attempt at making a shirt i'm so far very pleased with the work i've produced. However I know for next time that i'm going to be able to avoid the niggly parts that have bothered me so far on this shirt becuase i will have the knowledge that i've gained on this unit to know how to avoid them.