We Have Shirt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just not Andy's Valentine's Shirt...................oops. It's the 3-Hour-Shirt from McCall's--which, of course, took the better part of 2 days NOT including cutting and laying out the pattern. I think they use football minutes. There was a brief moment of time when I considered trying to embroider something on the pockets, but after the horror of top-stitching on corduroy for the jacket, I just wanted this DONE and off my table. I went with the mandarin collar to make it a bit less painful. I don't think even my nifty new point-turner could make collar points in corduroy. Instead, I opted to liven up the shirt the easy way--with cool buttons. In my button stash, I had quite a few options, but these were short one button, so I used these instead: which add a bit of femininity to an otherwise unisex shirt, and are shank buttons which worked much better with the thicker fabric. And....................I love this shirt. I already ...