Another Butterick B6563 shirt

The other Sunday evening, I was at a loose end and felt like starting a new sewing project. I'd been planning to make a project case for my embroidery but realised I was missing one of the key supplies. With that idea scuppered, I decided to move on to trying out the Sew Over It Ultimate Trousers (one of my Make Nine projects) but when I went to trace out the pattern I found that I'd run out of tracing paper, and I definitely didn't want to cut into the pattern because I was very unsure about what size I'd need to make.

Having been thwarted once again, I went back to the drawing board hoping that it would be third time lucky. The one advantage of having a pile of fabric sitting in the corner of my flat is that there were a few pieces left over from other projects that were therefore already prewashed and ready to sew. One of those pieces was a decent-sized chunk of Liberty tana lawn in the Suzy Elizabeth print left over from a Granville shirt that I made last year (which I now realise made it to my Instagram account, but not onto my blog for some reason).

While this fabric was left from another project so was sort of a "freebie", it is still Liberty and therefore demands a bit of respect and is also potentially my favourite fabric print ever (there's a closeup of it on my Instagram here) so I didn't want it to go to waste. A tried-and-tested pattern was therefore definitely required! Enter Butterick 6563, one of the Patterns by Gertie range.

I made two versions of this cute little shirt pattern last year, so I knew that it wouldn't disappoint. As with my previous two, for this B6563 I also used the cap sleeves from view B and the Peter Pan collar from view C. I fully intend to use the other collar and the sleeveless/puffed sleeved options at some point, but this time I wanted to stick with what I knew would work.

Unsurprisingly, given that I've made this pattern twice before, the sewing process was a breeze. The instructions are clear, and the pattern is relatively simple but still produces a nicely finished garment. As I said in my post about my previous versions, I made a size down from what is recommended for my measurements and that fits me nicely.

Considering the fact that this is a pattern that I've already road-tested and a fabric that I know and love, it's also not a shock that I'm really happy with the finished garment.

Just to prove how much I love this fabric, here's my current collection of garments made using it! In my defence, there are two different colourways and the two tops on the left were both made using leftovers from two of the other garments. And fabric for four of the five garments came from an ebay seller that used to sell precut lengths of Liberty fabrics at significantly reduced prices (sadly they no longer do!). That all makes having five garments in one print acceptable doesn't it? I'm not the only one who uses the same print repeatedly am I?!