I want to make some mens T-shirts but can't find matching neck ribbing for the color jersey I found. Should I try to dye some white ribbing to match? I've never seen T-shirts with different color neckbands, but maybe that would work? How about using a band of the body material for the neck? Stretchy enough? Any advice appreciated. Bill
I have used the same material as my t-shirt to make the neck band and it worked out ok, but I have only made women's and childrens shirts, I don't know anything at all about men's clothing besides pj pants for DH.
HTH
Michelle Giordano
I think it is safer to try to use the t-shirt material for the neck than dyeing white ribbing to match. It would be almost impossible to match the color and an almost match would look worse. On the other hand, I have seen t-shirts with contrasting neckbands, usually a darker or lighter shade of the same color as in the body fabric.
Or maybe somebody has a URL for rib knit suppliers. What country are you in?
Kirsten Sollie
There is a t-shirt style called a ringer shirt. These have a contrasting color for the neckband. Example:
I checked my books and this is the formula I came up with. If your fabric has 50% stretch, that's if you take a 4 inch wide piece of fabric and hold it about 3 inches from the top you should be able to stretch it to 6 inches. In that case you would use a ratio of 3 inches of trim to every 4 inches of neckline circumference. Using that as a guide you would use more frabric for less stretch and less fabric for more stretch. You will also need to add 1/2 inch for seam allowance. Juno
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