High Neck Asymmetrical Placket Gathered Sleeve Blouse

Name: High Neck Asymmetrical Placket Gathered Sleeve Blouse
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 2064
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #2064

A women's long-sleeved blouse with a high stand collar, a faced front slit placed off-centre that fastens with buttons, a pleat below the slit, and long sleeves gathered at the cap and into buttoned cuffs. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: light to medium woven blouse fabrics that gather well, such as cotton poplin, cotton shirting, viscose or silk crepe de chine.

Tech. Description

High-Neck Gathered Sleeve Blouse

When To Wear

At the office with trousers or a skirt, tucked in or worn loose.
In autumn and winter under a jacket or pinafore dress.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Straight body shaped by bust darts.

Length: Hip length.

Collar: High two-piece stand collar, interfaced, fastened with a button.

Front: Cut in one piece. An asymmetric slit off the centre front is finished with an interfaced facing turned to the inside, and closes with buttons and buttonholes. Below it a pleat 1.5–2 cm deep is stitched from the wrong side.

Sleeves: Set-in long sleeves gathered at the cap and at the lower edge, with a sleeve slit topstitched 0.1 cm from the fold and a cuff fastened with buttons.

Back: One piece cut on the fold, with no centre seam.

Finishing: Hem turned up twice by 1 cm and topstitched.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. A faced slit opening with clipped corners, a stand collar, gathered sleeve caps, sleeve slits and cuffs, and buttonholes.

Fabric Recommendations

Light to medium woven blouse fabrics that gather well, such as cotton poplin, cotton shirting, viscose or silk crepe de chine.

Additional Supplies

Fusible interfacing (slit facing, collar stand, cuffs)
Buttons for the collar stand, front slit and cuffs

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:
- Back – 1 piece on fold
- Front – 1 piece
- Slit Facing – 1 piece
- Stand Collar – 2 pieces
- Sleeve – 2 pieces
- Cuff – 4 pieces
From fusible interfacing:
- Slit Facing – 1 piece
- Stand Collar – 1 piece
- Cuff – 2 pieces

Sewing Instructions

Fuse interfacing to the Slit Facing, one Stand Collar piece and two Cuff pieces.
Serge the outer edge of the Slit Facing. Place the Slit Facing on the Front, right sides together, and stitch two parallel lines 0.5 cm to the right and left of the slit line. Cut the Front and the Slit Facing along the slit line. Make diagonal clips 1–1.5 cm from the end of the stitching lines. Turn the Slit Facing to the wrong side through the opening and straighten the edges. Secure the corner from the wrong side with a double backstitch across its base.
Fold and stitch the pleat on the Front from the wrong side, 1.5–2.0 cm, following the markings.
Stitch the bust darts and press the dart intakes upwards.
Stitch the shoulder and side seams, press the seam allowances towards the Back and serge.
Place the Stand Collar pieces right sides together and stitch along the outer edge and ends, starting and ending the stitching exactly at the collar attachment line. Clip the seam allowances at the curves, trim the corners, turn the Stand Collar right side out and press. Stitch the outer Stand Collar to the neckline, turn under the raw edge of the inner Stand Collar and topstitch it over the attachment seam.
Sew a line of long gathering stitches along the top of the sleeve cap and gather. Sew a line of gathering stitches along the lower edge of the Sleeve and gather. Serge the sleeve seam edges separately. Stitch the sleeve seam from the armhole to the slit mark and press the seam allowances open. Topstitch the slit 0.1 cm from the fold. Set the Sleeves into the armholes, press the seam allowances and serge.
Place the Cuff pieces right sides together and stitch the side and lower edges, starting and ending the stitching exactly at the marked cuff attachment line. Turn the Cuff right side out and press. Stitch the outer Cuff to the Sleeve, turn under the seam allowance of the inner Cuff and topstitch it over the attachment seam of the outer Cuff.
Press the hem of the blouse to the wrong side twice by 1 cm and topstitch.
Make buttonholes on the Stand Collar, the front slit and the Cuffs. Sew on the buttons.