Coby's Spring Start

What do you do when the love of your life supports your crazy sewing addiction? Why you make him a new shirt, of course!

Coby has this thing about big colorful floral type prints. He has always loved them! Back when we were first married we would comb the thrift stores for the brightest "Hawaiian" button-ups we could find and then he would wear them until they wore out! At one point he had like 8 or 9 of them!

Eventually, we had children and stopped buying him all the florals and had to start paying attention to clothing the children. Which is super fun and very important, but now that our children aren't growing out of everything we bought them last week, we can concentrate a little more on the clothes he likes to wear. A dress code change at work that allows him a little more self-expression is helping an awful lot.

So I made it my mission to find a bunch of fabulous men's patterns and get my hands on fabric's he would like so that I could fill his side of the closet with clothes that he enjoyed and made him feel good. I think we are well on our way.

This is the Mark Tee from Annelaine Patterns and it has some great options, including color blocking, a chest pocket, long sleeves, short sleeves, and a vest option as well as a crew or V-neck. I picked the simplest version for this shirt because of the fun colors it already has, just a short-sleeved V-neck and it's pretty much perfect.

The fabric is Double Brushed Poly from The Fab Clique called Xitlalli Tropical Leaves and it is the perfect fabric for beginning Coby's Spring/Summer wardrobe. Because I'm going to be making him, lots of them, if I have anything to say about it.

Now that the Spring wardrobe has started, we just need to wait on the snow to melt before it can actually be spring and Coby no longer needs a coat to keep him warm. Coats cover up my work!

What other men's patterns do you know of? I have several, but clearly, I need more, please share with me your favorite designs.

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