Home Spun Blue and White Check Western Style Shirt

     I picked up this pattern from Kwik Sew here at the shop to have a nicer shirt pattern to work with and again, I love these Kwik Sew patterns.  I also bought a Simplicity Pattern for a similar mens shirt, but I just love the way these clothes fit and look, they aren't too baggy or too snug and their sizing is accurate as far as I can tell.
     I have this shirt made up with a kind of faux pearl snaps, they are actually semi-clear snaps I found in a Hancocks in Lubbock because the local Hobby Lobby only has a very pure white color, but because of the shirt color, it's much more of an off white color.  I also discovered a red pearl snap that is pretty cool looking, I don't have a project planned out for that yet, but I'm still thinking about using them on something.
      I love this shirt, I wore it around for a few days to "test" it out.  I thoroughly enjoyed it, comfortable soft and looked good on me.  I was showered by praise when I took it to Lubbock on the goose chase that ended with Hancocks for the snaps.  I put a lot of work and detail into this, top stitching especially.  My points on my colar and on the wrist button up area I am most proud of the way they look. 
      I also modified this pattern to be a short sleeve Hawaiian shirt for my father, and with very little trouble did I manage to do just that.  I'll try to get pictures of it over Christmas break. 
      I used and might suggest our Pellon material for interfacing, I used the Sew in Sheer to Light Weight on this shirt and the more expensive Organdy we found after our renovations and I think the sheer to light weight may be a little too thin for this application.  It looks good on the shirt as you can see in the pictures, I just like mine to have a little more form/stiffness.  Though it is all easy to work with and dosn't slide around as much as the iron on stuff would imply.  For all you readers that wonder why I would use a sew in, I hate to use an iron, hate, hate, double hate to use one.  So 95 percent of all my sewing is done without, this I must warn you is not the correct way, nor even the easier way, but if that's the quality of garment I get out of not using an iron, that's fine by me.  I use it occasionally when making a pre-seam fold.  Like trying to make the lines match up on pockets and the center fold, but, I only had mild success with that, and this was the first time I'd tried any such nonesence.
      I can identify some improvements I can make on this shirt, which I will speak more on when I get them right, rather than now, when they aren't.
      Merry Christmas Eve Eve to all!