If you are anything like me, you’re always looking for that new top to help freshen up your existing fabulous wardrobe. Well, look no more; Mood has a brand new unisex sewing pattern, the Carya Shirt, that is simple and easy to make using any of Mood’s wide variety of vibrant cotton prints!
Alternative Recommended Fabrics:
Purchase Materials Used Below:
Single Print/Color:
- 2 yards Mood Exclusive Sugar Swizzle Color Fields Stretch Cotton Poplin
- 6 Milky White Tire Shaped Rim 4-Hole Plastic Button – 17L/10.5mm
- 1 yard Off-White Weft Fusible Interfacing
- MDF272 – The Carya Shirt Sewing Pattern (free download below!)
Two-Tone:
- 1.5 yards Mood Exclusive Amorous Alphabet Stretch Cotton Poplin
- 1 Black Stretch Cotton Poplin
- 1 Mood Exclusive Italian Black and Silver T5 Open End Metal Zipper – 27.5″
- 1 Mood Exclusive Italian Large Silver Round Metal Zipper Pull
- 1 yard Off-White Weft Fusible Interfacing
- MDF272 – The Carya Shirt Sewing Pattern (free download below!)
1. Print and tape pieces.
2. Pin, cut out of fabric, and mark your notches.
3. Cut out interfacing for facing and collar. Iron the interfacing to the corresponding pieces.
4. Hem the edge of the facings and machine stitch.
5. With your back piece, mark your pleats and fold inward placing two pins to secure it in place.
6. With the right sides together, sandwich the yokes around the back piece. Once sewn, press nicely and stay stitch the neckline.
7. Take your front piece, turning the facing right sides together and matching notches. Stitch 3/8″ to the notch. Clip seam by the notch, trim, flip, and press.
8. Using a french seam, stitch shoulders wrong sides together.
9. Using the French seam again, attach the fronts and back of your shirt at the side seams.
10. With the right sides together, sew the top three edges of the collar at 3/8″ seam allowance. Trim and press.
11. Pin the interfaced side of the collar to the right side of the fabric, matching notches and leaving the other side of the collar open.
12. Press the collar so it lays nice and flat. Fold the exposed seam under and slip stitch. Note: if you want to topstitch the collar, you can do that here.
13. If you want to add a patch pocket, add it here using the guideline from the pattern for placement.
14. Using a French seam, sew the inseam of your sleeve.
15. Matching notches, set the sleeve in. Ease where it is necessary. Note: you can do a French seam here or a regular seam. If you do a regular seam, finish the seam off with a zig-zag stitch, overlock stitch, or a serger.
16. Hem the sleeves using a rolled hem, press, and machine stitch. Fold up the sleeve 4″ and hand tack at the underarm seam. As an alternative option, you can shorten the sleeve and hem the same way.
17. Finish off the bottom of your shirt with a rolled hem. Press, pin, and topstitch!
25 comments
Thank you so much for rthis pattern and detailed instructions – I have been avoiding sewing a woven, button down, collared shirt. I will definately be trying this 0ne
I can’t wait to try this pattern. It is just the style I love for summer. I can copy the instructions for the pattern from this page and save them, but it would be great if you could put a button on this page to print the pattern instructions. or a button with the server link for a .pdf that I could download. Just a suggestion.
Hello Adrienne! One thing you might find handy is that I put a QR code on the cover page of the pattern download. Just scan it with your phone or tablet and it will take you right to these instructions. The blog instructions would probably not be printer friendly and take up a lot ink due to the photographs. – Catina / PaTTernHack
Muchísimas gracias por sus tutoriales y patrones.
Thank you for this pattern! I was avoiding making myself a shirt because I knew the pattern I bought didn’t go up to my size but I feel much more comfortable using this one knowing it comes in my waist measurement. Thanks!!
For the french seams, is each stitch at a 1/2 seam allowance, so the total seam allowance is 1 inch, or are the two french stitches at 1/4? I hope this make sense
Hi, Michael! It’s two French seams at 1/4″ each. 🙂
Wait, I’m confused – why does the two-tone call for a zipper that’s never mentioned again in the instructions?
Hi Lauryn, the instructions were for the standard button up, and the two-tone w/zipper was just shown as an option. Adding a zipper would be an easy adjustment! Head over to our Be a Zipper Expert guide, and take a look at the Exposed Zipper instructions.:)
This pattern is really nice. It would help if the instructions were just a little more specific & if the pictures better illustrated what was being instructed. I had to do a lot of brainstorming.
Is there a video tutorial for this pattern? I’m a fairly confident sewer but it would be really helpful for me if the instructions were a bit more detailed. I’ve managed to make a practice version but struggled a bit with the collar – how far down the side edges do you sew when putting the two sides of collar together? The curve baffled me a bit.
I do love the fit though and am stoked that me and my husband can wear the same pattern (matchy family outfits)
This was a cool pattern. The collar attachment was a bit tricky for me (youtube had great collar tutorials), and looking at the end product I just made, the collar was proportionally too large for my preference. May modify for next time! Thanks!
I agree with you on the collar. The sizing and proportion is awful.
Thank you so much for this pattern. I’ve been looking for a larger camp shirt pattern for quite some time. The fact that you’ve given it to us free is amazing. You are awesome.
Does anyone know if it is possible to print this pattern in layers so you’re only printing the size you want? I opened it Adobe Acrobat but layers didn’t seem to be an option. I love that the pattern is size-inclusive, but that also means that cutting out the pattern is a lot trickier if I can’t narrow down the field.
Hi, James! Unfortunately, this pattern isn’t layered. 🙁 Sorry!
Bonjour ,
Tout d’abord merci pour ce patron gratuit, c’est super!!!! Juste une question,les marges de coutures sont déjà comprise ou faut il les rajouter, encore merci
I’ve been wishing for the same thing. Printing out the patterns for my wedding suit and my fiance’s wedding dress took so much paper, but I’m not particularly large and they’re pretty thin so we could have saved a lot of money and waste if we had printed out just the sizes we needed. I’m also very glad that a lot of these patterns go up to large sizes, but it’s pretty wasteful when sewing even the smallest of sizes requires printing for a size 30 (or in this case, a size 56)
Hi Raphael! We totally understand your frustration. In order to keep our patterns free though, we can’t offer separate size files at this time. But we know this is a popular request, and we hear you! 🙂
I would have liked to know how to sew the buttonholes or how to put the pocket on. I too struggled with the collar and did a lot of you tubing but the shirt turned out well and the fit was quite good.
I am an experienced sewer and wanted a quick camp shirt. I just made this shirt and the collar is very oversized, looks like the photo with the pointy tips almost to the shoulders, and definitely does not look like the line drawing. The neckline opening is also too large. I took it apart and cut down the collar but there was nothing I could do about the neckline. It shows a lot of lot of chest. I would not recommend this pattern.
this is NOT an accurate pattern at all— I can’t even cut out enough fabric. I’m doing the biggest size and I can’t even fit the front on 2 yards of fabric. how do you make a pattern and not test it on the biggest size? ridiculous
Hi Hannah, our 2 yd recommendation was for the size we made, which I believe was a 38. Did you try a few pattern placement options before you started cutting? Sometimes it’s necessary to cut the pieces out individually instead of layered. Are you trying to pattern match? The largest pattern piece requires an area of approximately 33×28 inches. If we double that, there should still be ample space for other pieces. You shouldn’t need more than 2.5 – 3 yards for this shirt, unless you’re pattern matching, or there’s an obvious direction to the print.
Nice pattern. Just a question, the seam allowances are already included or should they be added ? thank you again.
Hi Manuela, all of our patterns include a 1/2″ seam allowance, unless otherwise stated! 🙂