I have completed my son’s linen colonial shirt.
It is sufficiently hand sewn with linen thread, complete with hand sewn button holes and Dorset buttons!
These are thread buttons that I learned how to sew in a class with the Colonial Williamsburg Costume Design Center.
I made this button a year ago in my class and it has endured countless launderings!
It’s amazing how sturdy it is!
I also cross-stitched laundry markers, using Kannik’s Korner publication, A Lady’s Guide to Plain Sewing.
Cross stitching on linen yields insanely teeny tiny stitches.
At the suggestion of Kannik Korner, I decided to put numbers under the monogram, to document my sewing progress.
At the time of stitching I was so caught up in teeny tiny-ness insanity, that I forgot that this is actually the second shirt I had sewn for my son.
Since the first shirt was a long study and full of mistakes, this shirt is now number 1!
