Sewing for Men

My husband is a diehard science fiction fan! He likes all of the Star Trek shows (the original Star Trek, Star Trek:the Next Generation, Star Trek:Voyager....), StarGate and its spinoffs, and so on. For his birthday (Sept. 26), I thought it would be really nice to sew him a Star Trek themed shirt. I have this Star Trek: the Next Generation fabric for about three years now and finally decided that it is about time to use it. I hope my hubby gets a kick out of this shirt!






Here's a closer view of the fabric. I purchased this at a local Yardage Town.

After about two full evenings of work, here's the shirt under some bathroom lighting. What took the longest time to construct was the collar. I took my time in stitching the collar to the shirt. I wanted to make sure that the left and right sides of the collar were aligned.

The sleeves did not fit when I tried to pin them to the armholes. I trimmed the top edges of each sleeve before repinning them to each armhole and finally stitching the seams together. I thought I did a decent job on the shirt! The collar came out fine!

Here
the shirt in the living room area. The lighting sure changes the look of the shirt! My hubby really liked the shirt and thought I was very nice to sew something for him again. He appreciates the time and effort I put into the shirt. After inspecting the shirt a little (he has an eye for noticing details), he was impressed and said that if he did not know it was made by me, he would have thought it was a RTW shirt (dept store quality). I hope he wears it somewhere soon!

A review of Simplicity 4975:
http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/readreview.pl?readreview=1&reviewnum=16248