in the works

i was home a couple of weekends ago, and scored two brown bags full of patterns (1962 was the oldest copyright date we found, but several patterns appear to be a bit older than that), a rubbermaid tub full of fabric, a snap press, and oodles more. in the pattern stash, there was a basic mens button down short pattern mccalls 5741 copyright 1977.

my mom made the long sleeve version of the shirt on the right for my dad, and had cut out a size 42. she never cuts out pattern peices anymore, but on this one she did. this pattern has five collar and cuff sets to mix and match with the basic shirt and sleeves. i found the "normal" collar and cut it out. jason needs a size 46, but the pattern only goes to 44, and mom had cut to a 42 in some places, so i had to add on the extra sizes, but i think i did a pretty good job of it. i am making a short sleeved shirt for jason out of this fabric:

but i have been busy, and have only gotten so far as to cut everything out, iron on interfacing, and stitch the front opening and pocket. i hope to finish this this week some time, so jason can ear it to work on friday. can you believe this is the first thing i have ever sewn for him? oh, and did i mention that he picked out the fabric? you never would have guessed that. :)