Is there any possible way you could give a run down of how you made your psii shirt?
Ok, let’s see if I can make this understandable.
First off make a mock-up out of muslin (always make mock-ups, kids) I used a plain ol tshirt pattern.
I’m also using tshirt material for this, if you wanted to know.
Draw your markings on then cut them out.
I’d take a picture of all the parts cut out but I threw them away :c
Trace your pattern piece onto your fabric and add seam allowances to the edges that need them.
The seam allowances don’t have to be perfect but don’t make them too crazy.
Here’s a picture of all the parts cut out on the first version of this I made. I don’t have a picture of the second version, sorry :[
For the second version I made the top circle of the neckline black and I made the big black circle go onto the sleeves. You can make the black parts all one piece if you want but I don’t think anybody will be close enough to me to scrutinize my seams so I just cut up the black parts where the orange is then sewed them together to make my life easier lol.
When you sew the circles together you gotta be really careful that they’re all the same width. And since I personally didn’t bother making the seam allowances perfect at the beginning I have to sew these together a different way. I took the top ring and sewed it to the second ring normally, then redrew the seam allowance on the unsewn side on the yellow ring so it would be the right width. Then I sewed the second and third rings together, then redrew the allowance on the black ring and blah blah I kept doing that until all my rings were sewn together. It was a bit of a pain but it was worth it if it meant all my rings were even.
Here’s a picture of the second version all sewed together
For the collar I cut out a strip of yellow long enough to fit the neck hole but twice as high as I want it to be. I folded the strip in half and sewed the two edges to the neckline so the top of the collar is seamless and pretty. I put the vertical seam on the back of the shirt. Also USE A ZIGZAG STITCH when you sew the collar and the, like, upper 3 or 4 rings so your seams won’t rip when you put your head through. The collar on this is all big and stuff because otherwise my head won’t fit through. If you want a fitted collar I think you have to install a zipper in the back or something. Or if you use super stretchy material I think you can have a fitted collar, idk.
Uh, I’m not really sure how to explain the sleeves so here’s some drawings. Sew the black on the sleeves first then sew the rest of the shirt to it.
When you attach all the rings to the rest of the shirt hold off on sewing the edges of the rings together. If you lay the pieces together and sew a plain straight seam your rings probably won’t line up and they’ll join at a weird angle and look like the thing on the left. You want them to look like the circles on the right. You can sew the rest of the shirt together though.
This is gonna be tedious so just bear with me. Don’t sew all the way to the ends of the circles, leave the ends unsewn like in number 1. What you need to do is take each circle and sew the ends together, where the red dashes are in number 2. Your circles shouldn’t be connected to each other yet, only to themselves. After that, sew where the horizontal dashes are in number 3 so all the openings are sewn shut. This way you can get nice circles. I didn’t do it this way the first time because I didn’t know what I was doing so I had to rip out all the stitches and redo it all, so now my circles still meet at weird angles because I had already cut off the excess fabric and didn’t have enough to make it work right. I’m probably gonna remake it all here soon.
Here it is being worn. Uh, if you go the black sleeve route and want those and the shirt to be one piece then sew the black sleeves to the bottom of the yellow sleeves. I wanted mine separate cause I can’t decide if I like Psii better with black sleeves or no sleeves :V Also idk if this would be helpful but I sewed the black belt part to the shirt. I’m sure most people would sew it to the pants or have it separate but I sewed the bottom of the shirt to the middle of the inside of the belt (I made the belt the same way I did the collar, except I rotated the belt so the seam is on the middle on the inside so there’s no visible seam on the outside anywhere) so I could make the shirt, like, puff out a bit on the bottom and not have to worry about it messing up? I’m a lil fat and it’s the best way to hide it for me because skintight anything looks bad on me lmfao.
SO YEAH that’s how I made it. I’m p sure I made the black stripes too big but I’ll worry about fixing that after I finish making Mituna’s suit cause that’s more important. I hope this helped :0
