One pile...I have more. Getting ready for Jude's Contemporary Woven Boro class.
While I was sorting I found a piece of cloth I'd been saving for a shirt. I've made this pattern 4 or 5 times now, adapting it from the original quite a bit. It's just a basic, loose fitting shirt that is the right size for me. In a heavier fabric it makes a great "jacket." It actually is the same pattern I used for my pieced many pockets jacket.
I don't do a collar or a facing, just bind the neckline.
Nothing fancy for the sleeves since I always just roll them up (but I dislike short sleeves).
I love the look of shirts with a seam in the front, but don't like to fuss with button holes or facings. My solution is to fold the edges over twice and sew them down to tidy things up and then I lay the seams together as if the shirt was buttoned closed and sew it shut. This particular shirt only has one small button on the top. It has a "peasant top" kind of feel to it.
Yes it needs to be ironed. No, it probably won't be.
Might be sounding like a lazy sewer here...but I really like the simplicity of this. I like how easily a pattern comes together once it's been made a couple times. I like how it can become a foundation.