Collared Button-Front Tunic

Name: Collared Button-Front Tunic
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 4550
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #4550

A women's hip-length tunic blouse with a split band collar, a two-button half placket, shoulder gathers held by elastic-thread stitching and buttoned shoulder tabs. The back has a yoke and a centre box pleat. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: blouse fabrics of natural or blended fibres, shirting.

Tech. Description

Collared Button-Front Tunic

When To Wear

In summer with trousers, jeans or shorts.
Over slim trousers or leggings for everyday and travel wear.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Straight, loose fit.

Length: Tunic length, below the hip, with a curved hem.

Collar: Band collar (stand), open at the centre front above a V-shaped neckline opening; the outer stand is interfaced.

Front: One piece cut on the fold, with a half placket closing with 2 buttons; the right placket ends in a point at the bottom. Gathers along the front shoulder seams are secured with two rows of elastic-thread stitching 0.5 cm apart.

Sleeves: Short band sleeves: each sleeve is a ring folded in half lengthwise and set into the armhole. A buttoned tab sits on each shoulder, caught into the sleeve seam and buttoned to the shoulder seam.

Pockets: One patch pocket with a pointed bottom on the left chest.

Back: Straight back yoke; the back is cut on the fold, with a box pleat at the centre below the yoke.

Finishing: Plackets topstitched; hem turned up 1.5 cm and stitched.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. A half placket with a turned corner, a band collar, a yoke with a box pleat, shirring with elastic thread and set-in folded band sleeves.

Fabric Recommendations

Blouse fabrics of natural or blended fibres, shirting.

Additional Supplies

Fusible interfacing (plackets, outer collar stand)
Elastic thread
4 buttons (2 for the placket, 2 for the shoulder tabs)

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. Seam allowance for the upper edge of the pocket – 2 cm. Hem allowance for the bottom of the garment – 1.5 cm. Attention! First of all, print out the paper patterns and lay them out on the fabric width (fabric width can be from 90 cm to 150 cm) to determine how much material you will need (do not forget to consider paired and symmetrical details).

From main fabric:

Back Yoke – 1 piece
Back – 1 piece on fold
Front – 1 piece on fold
Placket – 4 pieces
Sleeve – 2 pieces
Stand Collar – 2 pieces
Tab – 2 pieces
Pocket – 1 piece

From fusible interfacing:

Placket – 2 pieces
Stand Collar – 1 piece

Sewing Instructions

When stitching pieces, pay attention to the notches - they must match!

Fuse interfacing to two Placket pieces and to the outer Stand Collar.
Fold the box pleat on the Back and baste it. Stitch the Back Yoke to the back, press the seam allowances upwards and overlock.
Place the Placket pieces right sides together in pairs and stitch: the left placket along the outer edge down to the bottom (to where the point begins), the right placket along the outer edge and around the point up to the notch. On the right placket, clip the seam allowance at the notch. Turn the plackets right side out and press. On the Front, clip the seam allowance of the placket opening into the corners, stopping 1 mm short of the seam line. Stitch the outer layers of the plackets to the front. Fold the left placket to the right side, tucking the lower allowance inside. Fold the right placket to the right side, laying out its lower point on the right side. Turn under the allowances of the inner placket layers. Topstitch along the plackets, catching the inner edge at the same time. Secure the lower point of the right placket from the right side.
Overlock the upper allowance of the Pocket, press it to the wrong side and topstitch. Press the side and lower allowances of the pocket to the wrong side. Place the pocket on the left front at the markings and topstitch.
Along the shoulder edges of the Front, sew a line of stitching with a loosened thread and gather. Stitch the shoulder seams of the blouse, press the seam allowances upwards and overlock. On the front side of the shoulder seam, sew two rows of topstitching with elastic thread, 0.5 cm apart, to hold the gathers.
Place the Stand Collar pieces right sides together and stitch along the outer edge, starting and ending exactly at the neckline seam line. Turn the stand right side out and press.
Stitch the outer stand to the neckline, turn under the open edge of the inner stand and stitch it in the ditch of the stand seam.
Stitch the side seams, press the seam allowances towards the back and overlock.
Stitch each Sleeve into a ring and press the seam allowances open. Fold the sleeve lengthwise in half, wrong sides together, and stitch it into the armhole, placing it on the wrong side of the blouse. Overlock the seam allowances, fold the sleeve out to the right side and press.
Fold each Tab lengthwise in half, right sides together, and stitch along the long edge and one short end. Trim the seam allowances at the corners, turn the tab right side out, ease out the edges and press. Overlock the open short end. Stitch the tabs to the sleeve seam allowance at the shoulder from the wrong side.
Overlock the lower edge of the blouse, press the hem allowance to the wrong side and topstitch.
Make buttonholes on the tabs and the right placket. Sew buttons on the left placket and on the shoulder seams.