Gathered Front Puffed Sleeve Blouse
Introducing a versatile blouse pattern featuring a chic rounded neckline, a prominent V-shaped front yoke with intricate vertical pleats below, and stylish short puffed sleeves.
When To Wear
This charming blouse offers elegant comfort, making it perfect for:
- Everyday Chic: a comfortable yet stylish choice for work, errands, or casual gatherings.
- Warm Weather Events: Its light and airy design is ideal for spring and summer outings, garden parties, or vacation wear.
- Smart Casual Occasions: Easily dressed up or down for a relaxed yet polished look.
Key Design Features
Silhouette: a relaxed-fit blouse with a straight-cut body, designed for comfort and ease of wear.
Neckline: Classic rounded neckline, neatly finished with bias binding for a clean edge.
Front Design: Features a distinctive V-shaped front yoke, beneath which elegant vertical pleats are set to create soft volume and drape.
Sleeves: Short, puffed sleeves characterized by subtle gathering at both the shoulder and hem, adding a feminine touch.
Back Design: a clean back panel with a small back yoke, featuring a delicate keyhole opening secured with a button and loop closure at the center back.
Hem: a simple, straight hem, allowing the blouse to be worn untucked or tucked in.
Level Of Difficulty
Intermediate. Requires precision in setting pleats, attaching yokes, constructing puffed sleeves, and executing bias binding and a button loop closure.
Fabric Recommendations
Choose soft, draping blouse fabrics that will best highlight the pleats and sleeve volume:
- Soft blouse fabrics made from natural fibers (e.g., cotton lawn, linen blends, challis)
- Soft blouse fabrics made from blended fibers (e.g., cotton-rayon blends, viscose blends)
Additional Supplies
Cutter's Must
- From main fabric:
- Back yoke - 2 pieces
- Back - 1 piece on fold
- Front yoke - 1 piece
- Front - 1 piece on fold
- Front sleeve – 2 pieces
- Back sleeve – 2 pieces
Sewing Instructions
- Finish the center edges of the back yoke separately. Stitch the center seam of the back yoke from the slit mark to the bottom. Press seams open. Stitch a reinforcing line along the slit.
- Stitch the shoulder seams of the back and front yokes, press allowances towards the back and finish.
- Cut a bias strip 2.5 cm wide and 10 cm long for the loop. Fold the strip in half lengthwise, right sides together, and stitch 0.3 cm from the fold. Trim allowances close to the stitching, turn the strip right side out and straighten the loop. Adjust the loop length. Sew the loop to the left side of the back yoke.
- Cut a bias binding 4 cm wide and a length equal to the neckline length + 4 cm. Fold the bias binding in half lengthwise, wrong sides together, and press. Place the binding with the neckline edge on the wrong! side, leaving tails, and stitch. Fold the binding to the right! side, clip the seams and topstitch along the fold onto the main piece. Press the seam. Alternatively, you can bind the neckline with bias binding (binding length is indicated on the back pattern piece). In this case, the neckline allowance should be trimmed to 0 cm.
- Attach the back yoke to the back. Finish the allowance and press upwards.
- Form and secure the pleats on the front. Attach the front to the yoke, press allowances upwards and finish.
- Stitch the side seams, press allowances towards the back and finish.
- Stitch the sleeve seam, press allowances towards the back and finish. Finish the bottom edges of the upper and lower sleeve parts, press to the wrong side and topstitch. Lay the upper sleeve over the lower, aligning the notches, and secure at the sleeve cap.
- Set the sleeves into the armholes, aligning the marks. Press and finish the allowances.
- Hem the bottom of the garment by folding inwards 1 cm, then 1.5 cm, and topstitch.
- Sew the button to the right side of the back yoke.
