Micro post #2.   300 words.

I’ve sewn many traditional shirt-sleeve plackets, neck plackets that neatly (or messily) end in a pointed end or a square end with diagonal stitching lines sewn in an X.   A placket is still my least favorite thing to sew.   This one (below) was not a miss, but not a hit either. 

I made the pictured neckline placket without aids and flew on my own (after which it seemed like a good idea to order the plastic template seen below.)

StitchBuzz (the company) is selling a plastic template for perennially-placket-challenged sewers; I ordered the one above and am ready to use it. I think this will be a favorite notion in my toolbox. I’ll report back. Disclosure: no business affiliation with Stitch Buzz.

Of course, if you’re using a commercial sewing pattern with a placket in the design, you’ll have a pattern piece enclosed.  Then there are books such as David Coffin’s Shirt Making book with a placket diagram and thorough instructions for making a placket.

While I love the look of a traditional placket, and despite the aids available, it is still a  fiddly sewing process.  I don’t want to eliminate the traditional placket into oblivion, but my mind is churning to find an easier and quicker method.  It’ll come to me one of these days. Wait, I think I’ve got it. No wait……

(to be continued sometime in the future).

Meanwhile, please stay healthy.

Samina