Process

I knew I wanted to make a shirt, and while looking through various fabrics in class, I realized that it could be quite interesting to make one using a sort of blankety felt. It's sort of amusingly contradictory to the idea of a short sleeve garment, to make it out of something so warm. I did some research online to find out how exactly a t-shirt is assembled; read a few blog posts, watched some youtube videos. I didn't have any large paper to properly trace a pattern on, so i just traced one of my own shirts directly onto the fabric I wanted to use. I traced out the front and back pieces, followed by the sleeves. Then sewed the front and back together by the shoulders, added sleeves, and sewed the whole thing up the sides. The most difficult part was getting the sleeves to sit properly, and I ended up adding a dart to the top of them. This mostly worked, but failed to completely address the awkwardness of their fit.