Puffed Sleeve Button Front Blouse
Introducing a charming women's blouse pattern featuring elegant puffed sleeves, a refined revere collar, and a classic button-front closure for a polished look.
When To Wear
This versatile blouse is perfect for a range of settings, offering effortless style for:
- Everyday Elegance: Ideal for daily wear, from casual outings to lunch dates, offering a sophisticated yet comfortable option.
- Spring & Summer Occasions: Its light fabric and short, voluminous sleeves make it perfectly suited for warmer weather, garden parties, or vacation styling.
- Smart Casual Office Attire: a stylish choice for the workplace, easily paired with tailored trousers or skirts for a professional yet approachable ensemble.
Key Design Features
Silhouette: Semi-fitted through the body with shaping provided by front darts for a flattering fit.
Collar & Neckline: An elegant revere collar creates a sophisticated V-neckline, framing the décolletage beautifully.
Closure: a classic center front button placket, secured with four stylish buttons, provides a neat and functional closure.
Sleeves: Voluminous puffed sleeves gather at the shoulder and finish just above the elbow with a fitted cuff, adding a touch of romantic flair.
Hem: a straight hemline designed to fall gracefully at the hip, suitable for wearing tucked in or out.
Level Of Difficulty
Intermediate. This pattern involves techniques such as dart construction, precise revere collar setting, sleeve gathering, cuff attachment, and buttonhole creation.
Fabric Recommendations
Choose light to medium-weight shirting and blouse fabrics that offer a crisp drape and hold shape well:
- Blouse fabrics made from natural or blended fibers (e.g., cotton poplin, linen blends, chambray)
Additional Supplies
- Fusible interfacing
- 4 buttons
Cutter's Must
If the patterns have a double contour, they include seam allowances. If the contour is single, the patterns do not include seam allowances. Seam allowances: all seams 1 cm. Hem allowance – 2 cm. Attention! First, print out the paper patterns and lay them out on the fabric width (fabric width can be from 90cm to 150cm) to determine how much material you will need (don't forget to account for paired and symmetrical pieces). When stitching pieces, pay attention to the notches - they must match!
- From main fabric:
- Back - 1 piece on fold
- Front – 2 pieces
- Sleeve – 2 pieces
- Cuff – 2 pieces
- Front facing — 2 pieces
- Back neckline facing — 1 piece
- From fusible interfacing:
- Cuff – 2 pieces
- Front facing — 2 pieces
- Back neckline facing — 1 piece
Sewing Instructions
- Fuse interfacing to the designated pieces.
- Stitch darts on front pieces, press allowances upwards.
- Stitch the collar seam, folding front pieces right sides together, press allowances open. Stitch and press open shoulder seams, overlock allowances. Clip the shoulder seam allowance on the front piece and stitch the collar into the back neckline, press allowances towards the collar.
- Stitch, clip at the corner, and press open the shoulder edges of the back neckline facing and front facing. Stitch the collar edge, press allowances open. Stitch the collar into the facing neckline, press allowances open. Overlock the outer edge of the front facings and back neckline facing.
- Place the front facings and back neckline facing with the front piece right sides together and stitch the front edge, neckline, and bottom corner. Trim allowances at corners, clip curves. Turn the front edges to the right side, straighten seams, press. Secure the collar attachment allowances together.
- Stitch side seams, press allowances towards the back and overlock.
- Stitch the sleeve seam, press allowances towards the back and overlock. Along the lower edge of the sleeve, stitch with loosened upper thread and gather. Set sleeves into armholes, press allowances and overlock.
- Stitch the cuff into a loop, press allowances open. Fold the cuff in half lengthwise, right sides out, and press. Attach the outer side of the cuff to the sleeve, fold the allowance of the inner side of the cuff inwards and topstitch into the seam of the outer cuff attachment.
- Overlock the lower edge of the garment, press to the wrong side and topstitch.
- Overlock buttonholes on the right front. Sew buttons on the left front.
