Blouse with Elasticated Gathered Front

Name: Blouse with Elasticated Gathered Front
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 5064
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #5064

A women's V-neck blouse in light sheer fabric with an overlapping front, three small buttons and a short length of elastic that gathers the front at the waist, long set-in sleeves with flounces at the wrist and a bias-bound neckline. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: light, sheer blouse fabrics; the sample is made in printed viscose crepe-georgette.

Tech. Description

Blouse with Elasticated Gathered Front

When To Wear

In spring and summer with trousers, jeans or a straight skirt.
For daytime and casual evening wear in a printed georgette.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Shaped with darts, gathered at the centre front waist, with a short peplum-like section below the gathers.

Length: Hip length.

Neckline: Deep V-neck bound with a folded bias strip, 4.5 cm wide including seam allowances.

Sleeves: Long set-in sleeves with eased caps; a flounce is sewn to each sleeve hem, its lower edge finished with a dense narrow zigzag.

Front: Cut-on front facings; the right front laps over the left at the centre front line with three buttonholes on the right front. A 12 cm length of narrow elastic is stretched and stitched under the fronts, and the right front edge is stitched down to the left front.

Back: Centre back seam.

Finishing: Hem turned under and topstitched 0.75 cm from the edge.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Handling sheer fabric, a bias-bound V-neck, set-in sleeves with eased caps, zigzag-finished flounces and stretched elastic.

Fabric Recommendations

Light, sheer blouse fabrics; the sample is made in printed viscose crepe-georgette.

Additional Supplies

Elastic, 3 mm wide (12 cm)
3 small buttons

Fabric & Materials

You will need: printed viscose crepe-georgette, 140 cm wide – to determine the length of material needed, lay out the paper patterns on the fabric width and measure the required length; elastic tape, 3 mm wide; 3 small buttons. Material recommendations: light, sheer blouse fabrics.

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:
Front – 2 pieces
Back – 2 pieces
Sleeve Flounce – 2 pieces
Sleeve – 2 pieces
Additionally: a bias strip for binding the neckline, 1.00 m long and 4.5 cm wide, including seam allowances.

Sewing Instructions

Stitch the center back seam.
Stitch the darts.
Stitch the side and shoulder seams.
Turn the cut-on front facings to the wrong side along the fold lines. Press the edges. Baste the facings to the neckline edge, sewing basting stitches through the fronts along the marked neckline.
Bind the neckline. Trim the seam allowances along the neckline edge. Fold the bias strip in half lengthwise and press. Pin the folded strip to the neckline edge and stitch 0.75 cm from the edge. Press the binding upwards and turn under its ends. Wrap the binding around the seam allowances to the wrong side, baste just above the seam, and stitch in the ditch of the seam from the right side of the blouse.
Stitch the short edges of each Sleeve Flounce. Finish the lower edge of the flounce with zigzag: press the edge allowance to the wrong side, sew a dense, short zigzag along the fold from the right side, and trim the excess allowance close to the stitching on the wrong side.
Stitch the sleeve seams.
Place each flounce on its sleeve, right sides together, and stitch to the lower edge of the sleeve. Press the seam allowances towards the sleeve and serge them together.
Set in the sleeves, easing the sleeve caps.
Press the hem allowance of the blouse to the wrong side, turn under and topstitch 0.75 cm from the edge.
Make the buttonholes on the right front. Lap the front edge of the right front over the left front, matching the center front lines, and pin. Following the markings, stitch a 12 cm length of elastic under the fronts, stretching it as you sew, and stitch the front edge of the right front to the left front.