Long ago, my sister-in-law mentioned “The Five Love Languages”  and  ever since I’ve wondered where cooking and sewing shirts for someone fall into that categorization. I think it means I really, really love Doc, right? If he’s on his fourth shirt, he has to be doing something right. 🙂
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Details: The trusty McCalls M6044 pattern; Anna Maria Horner “Loominous” fabric. Sewn for our anniversary…which was in April.

This time around I got some tools to make life easier, since I was really unhappy with uneven buttonholes on the last two shirts I’d made (my machine doesn’t have an automatic feature). So I found a manual buttonhole foot on eBay that makes it so much easier to get consistent ones. While I was there, I got an expanding buttonhole gauge to make marking them easier, and a tiny half-inch chisel and cutting mat to cut them open from Amazon. (Credit to the Closet Case Files blog for clueing me in all these things exist.)

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Here’s the man himself in his shirt, striking his best “catalog guy” pose. Is it any wonder I love him four shirts’ worth? Nope.
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