Puffed Elbow Sleeve Front Button Blouse

Name: Puffed Elbow Sleeve Front Button Blouse
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 4717
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #4717

A women's fitted blouse, hip length, with a wide round neckline, a cut-on button placket with seven buttons and puffed elbow-length sleeves gathered into buttoned cuffs. Shaped with bust, waist and shoulder darts and a centre back seam. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: blouse fabrics in natural or blended fibres.

Tech. Description

Puffed Elbow Sleeve Front Button Blouse

When To Wear

For the office, tucked into a pencil skirt or worn over trousers.
In spring and summer with a skirt or jeans.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Fitted through the waist with darts on the front and back.

Length: Hip length, with a curved hem rising at the sides.

Neckline: Wide round neckline finished with an interfaced facing topstitched in place.

Sleeves: Set-in, puffed, elbow length; the lower edge is gathered into a cuff with one button. The sleeve opening is finished with bias binding 0.5–0.7 cm wide.

Front: Cut-on placket, topstitched; seven buttons with buttonholes on the right placket. Bust, waist and shoulder darts.

Back: Centre back seam, shoulder and waist darts.

Finishing: Seams overlocked; 1.2 cm hem, turned up and topstitched.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Several sets of darts, a cut-on placket sewn with a facing, a bound sleeve opening, gathered sleeves set into cuffs, buttonholes.

Fabric Recommendations

Blouse fabrics in natural or blended fibres.

Additional Supplies

Fusible interfacing (cuffs, neckline facings)
9 buttons (7 on the front, 1 on each cuff)

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: Hem allowance – 1.2 cm, all other seams – 1 cm. Attention! First, 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 account for paired and symmetrical pieces). When stitching pieces, pay attention to the notches - they must match!

From main fabric:
- Back - 2 pieces
- Front - 2 pieces
- Sleeve – 2 pieces
- Cuff – 2 pieces
- Back neckline facing - 1 piece
- Front neckline facing – 2 pieces
From fusible interfacing:
- Cuff – 2 pieces
- Back neckline facing - 1 piece
- Front neckline facing – 2 pieces

Sewing Instructions

Fuse interfacing to the designated pieces.
Stitch waist, shoulder, and bust darts on the back and front. Press the depths of the shoulder and waist darts towards the center of the respective pieces, and the bust darts upwards.
Stitch the center back seam, press allowances to the left side and overlock.
Stitch side and shoulder seams, press allowances towards the back and overlock.
Stitch shoulder seams of facings, press allowances open. Overlock the outer edge.
Press the allowance along the inner edge of the integrated placket to the wrong side. Place the facing with the garment right sides together, fold the integrated placket to the right side (the facing is positioned between the blouse and the placket), stitch the neckline edge. Clip allowances at curves, turn the plackets and facing to the wrong side and press. Topstitch the plackets and facing to the blouse.
Cut a bias binding for the sleeve slit, 25*3 cm. Mark the placket line on the sleeve, cut the sleeve along the line. Lay out the sleeve along the cut line in a straight line and finish the slit with a bound seam with a closed edge. The width of the binding is 0.5 – 0.7 cm. The seam width along the length of the slit is 0.5 – 0.7 cm, decreasing to 0.2 cm at the top of the slit.
Stitch and overlock sleeve seams. Set sleeves into armholes, matching notches and easing the sleeve cap. Press and overlock allowances. Along the lower edge of the sleeve, stitch with a loosely tensioned upper thread and gather.
Fold the cuff lengthwise in half, right sides together, and stitch the side edges. Start and end the stitching strictly at the marked seam line for attaching the cuff. Turn the piece to the right side, 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 bottom edge of the garment, press to the wrong side and topstitch.
On the right placket, make buttonholes; on the left, sew on buttons. Make buttonholes and sew on buttons on the cuffs.