I like unusual shirts and recently took it upon myself and my wife’s sewing machine to start making my own shirts.
I ran into this rayon challis in the fabric store and decided I should have a tropical shirt of it. Converting my pattern to accommodate what I’ve heard about rayon challis involved turning the side seams and arm seams into french seams (after adding to the seam allowance on the pattern).
Surprisingly, it fits perfectly. It’s not perfect by any means, but it’s the first shirt of this fabric type that I’ve ever owned.
Looks pretty good! How long did that take?
To be completely honest, I have no idea how many man hours this one took.
In general, I can complete this pattern with cotton fabric in a couple days of hobby work, but this fabric is a bit slippery and I definitely spent twice as much time preparing everything to mitigate that. Plus this was my first time doing French seams