Men’s Button-Down Shirt Sewing Project

by Allen Williams on May 3, 2012

We leave tomorrow morning for a Hawaiian getaway, and I’ve been busily working on a few sewing projects. I had lofty goals when I started just a week ago, but I slowly came back to reality as each day nudged me closer to our departure.

The photo above shows my handiwork … albeit not yet ironed. The brown shirt is the one I wished to replicate. Using Kwik Sew men’s pattern 3422, I came very close in my knock-off taupe shirt.

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