How to Sew a Tee Shirt or Vest with Mimi G Simplicity Pattern 8177

Hello dear Mimi G, here today we are going to work on one of my new pre-fall

pattern

s 81 77, we are going to start with you A and B, which is the short and long sleeve t-

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now yes If you are new to sewing or just need A little refresher course, be sure to watch the sewing basics video linked in the description box below. I cover all sorts of things like choosing the

pattern

size, cutting the tissue paper, reading all the instructions printed on your actual pattern how to cut the fabric how to read the grain lines and lots of other useful information watch that video then come back and sew with me it's fine, we'll start with you A and B, which is the t-

shirt

and I'm going to make this short version, but if you want to make the long version shorter, that's completely up to you, clearly we're going to need the pattern and, on the back of the About the pattern, be sure to read to find out what Your fabric options are for the t-shirt.

Once you choose your size, you will cut pattern piece number one, which is the front of our t-shirt. Edd's cup in the fold, then you will cut piece number one from the petal. three, which is the back of our t-shirt and it's also cut at the fold, then you're going to cut pattern piece number two, which is our pocket, you're going to cut pattern piece number four, which is our neck band, and you're going to cut one of these and then you're going to need to cut number five, which is our sleeve, and you're going to cut two of these.

I've chosen to cut this sleeve short, so if you're going to make the sleeve long, it's going to be a lot longer, so this is just a short view, as you can see. I already cut the fabric so I have my two sleeves, I have the neck band, my pocket and then of course I have my front and my back, once you have cut all the fabric we can start selling. Okay, we'll start with the front of our t-shirt. Now I want to make sure that you have transferred all your marks. You should have two dots where your pocket will go and then here, on the front of this letter, you should have one dot.

Now we're going to sew securely here and here and then we're going to cut until we get to that. point then you've transferred all your markings to your fabric, okay, we're going to start about three inches from that point and we're going to stay sewing when you get to that point, go ahead and turn and then like that for a long time. three inches, stay sewing in the other direction, okay, and now we're going to cut until we get to that point, don't cut the thread, now we're going to do something in our pocket real quick before we sew it, so what?

What I want you to do is with the fabric facing up, the right side of the fabric facing up. I want you to fold the top down along that fold line. You should have a fold line or small cuts to let you know and let's go. to sew all the way around using a 5/8 stitch allowance so we know exactly where to fold and press, so backstitch at the beginning, turn and adjust, make sure you're five-eighths of a stitch back now that we're . I'm going to go to the ironing board and we're going to press this, okay, so as you can see, we have our set stitch and we've cut to our point.

I'm going to put this aside for just a second. I'm going to ask you to press your pocket, so I asked you to go ahead and flip the top of our pocket and we sewed it using five-eighths of an inch seam allowance, so now if you turn this the other way, now we're facing . on the right side of our fabric and then we're going to press this all around using that seam that we just created as a guide. Once you have the pocket pressed, we can go ahead and sew on top, okay, I'm going to top.

I sew on top of my pocket and am using a 1 inch seam allowance. I'm going to backstitch at the beginning. Now let's go ahead and press and pin our pocket to the front of our shirt, okay? you have your little pocket press. I'm going to give it just one last press here. We'll pin it to our shirt so you have those two points right, so make sure you match the corners of your pocket. those two points and then go ahead and pin your pocket and I'm going to pin at the bottom and now we're going to go back to the sewing machine and we're going to sew along the edge of our pocket, okay?

I want you to go ahead and topstitch at the beginning and you're going to sew pretty close to the edge of the pivot of your pocket in the corner, now that we've attached our pocket to our shirt, okay, now that we've got our pocket made. We're going to go ahead and lay the back over the front with right sides facing and we're going to pin it on the shoulder, make sure we line up the notches and I'm going to go ahead and pin it and I'm going to pin it. up my other shoulder and we're going to sew them down using a five-eighths inch seam allowance.

Okay, we're going to sew along our shoulders using a five-eighths inch seam allowance. We're going to sew the other shoulder the same way if you have a serger go ahead and finish the raw edges now we're going to press this and we're going to work on the neck band okay we're going to go ahead and press our shoulders and let's set this up. Set aside for just a second. Okay, now I want you to grab the neck band and I want you to fold it in half with right sides facing up and we're going to sew this V platform, so we're going to sew with a 3/8 of an inch seam allowance. we're going to sew all the way to the middle stop at the point and then sew in the other direction, okay, turn the stitch back into the point.

Oh, now we're going to press this in half, okay, now what I want you to do. I want you to cut right in the center, but don't cut the seams and then we're going to fold this in half and we're going to press all the way down now as you can see we've created our V once you've ironed it you're going to cut off this excess that you see here and now we can attach our band to our t-shirt, so I actually have my t-shirt with the wrong side facing me because it's going to be easier to show you this, but the reason for this cut that we created in the center front is that it extends when we attach it to our V-neck, so what you do is place the band right in the center. and as you can see it's going to extend because we're going to sew along this side and along this side, so I'm going to pin first here right in the center and then I'm going to continue pinning and as you can see it extends here like this which makes it a little easier and you'll continue pinning.

I'm going to turn it to the right side in just a second, but I really wanted you to see the function of that slit and turn it over and now you're going to continue pinning all the way around. You will have two notches in the neck band that are also on your shirt, so make sure to pin there and then as well. It had little stitches that you should have transferred and those go on the shoulder seam. It's always important to transfer all those stitches and notches because they really help you and then I'm going to find my other stitch and I'm going to place it on the other shoulder seam line and then I'm going to pin it a couple more times along my neckline, once you've pinned it completely, we're going to start sewing starting at the center back using a 3/8 of an inch seam allowance, okay, we're going to start at the center back and we're going to sew using a 3/8 inch seam allowance and I'm just going to make sure as I sew that all my edges are lined up and we're going slow and we're going to do it until we get to that original point where we were and then we're going to turn now you're going to continue until we get there to the center back now we're going to press After I get this out, I go ahead and press the neck band all the way.

I'm not going to take this back to the sewing machine and we're going to sew around the edge of the neck band. Okay, now we're going to sew pretty close to our seam line all the way around, okay, we're going to give it one last press and then we're going to attach our sleeves. Okay, let's go ahead and join our sleeves. You are following the instructions. The instructions in my pattern ask you to make it as a box. I'm going to ask you to do it as a flat method. I just do it because I make most of my knitting that way and I think anyone new to sewing finds this method.

It's easier to choose which one you want to make, but for the tutorial I'm going to go ahead and make it flat, so what I want you to do is have a t-shirt with the right side up and the sleeve right side down. I want you to pin that center notch that you should have on your shirt at the shoulder seam and then you should have a notch for the front and not just the back, so go ahead and pin your CH knot and then go around it. and set in your double notch and then you should have had stitches.

I made them in little indentations so you could see them, but they're actually dots on your tissue paper, once we have that set, we'll do it, so starting at one end. and we're going to work around our sleeve, you'll notice that you have some ease on one side, so you're going to need to smooth out the sleeve cap, so the way I do it is I make some notches in my shirt, not the sleeve, and then I'll smooth it out while we sew. Now we can go ahead and pin the other sleeve and then we'll sew the sleeves together, okay, starting at one end and using five-eighths of an inch seam allowance.

I'm going to topstitch and now, as you can see, when we start to smooth the top of this sleeve into those little notches, go ahead and trim or cut this and you're going to do the other sleeve the same way, okay? If you have both seeds attached, you will fold the shirt over itself with right sides up and we are going to pin along the entire side seam, so match the armpit seam first and pin there and then you and making sure. you line up the notches and then you go ahead and attach the spear and attach both sides the same way and then what we're going to do is sew starting from the bottom all the way to the pivot underneath. the arm and then sew along the sleeve in a continuous seam using five-eighths of an inch seam allowance.

I can't want you to backstitch at the beginning, so using five-eighths of an inch seam allowance all the way to the top you're going to sew. the seam on the other side and the sleeve exactly the same way and then you're going to bind off if you have a serger, your seam allowance or you can trim it now, that's hard to do is the hem of our shirt and the hem of our sleeves, so what I'm going to do is have my shirt wrong side out and I'm going to turn it over to my 1 inch hem allowance and I'm going to measure with my visual meter and I'm going to press it first all the way around, measure so we can make sure it's even all the way around and press, and it's going to continue all the way around, it's going to do the same thing with the sleeve hands, okay, I'm going to go ahead. and pressed my hems everywhere.

I like to do the top seam right sides, with the right side of the fabric facing up, so I press it so I know it stays where it should be every which way. I'm going to go ahead and sew starting at the side seam and using a 7/8 inch seam allowance, you're going to go ahead and hem the sleeves the same way we did the bottom hem and then you're going to give it one final press and that's it. I hope you enjoyed this filling until the next peace.