Classic Collared Long Sleeve Blouse

Name: Classic Collared Long Sleeve Blouse
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 5081
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #5081

A hip-length women's blouse for knit fabric, with an open collar, cut-on front facings, a five-button front and long set-in sleeves with bound openings, a pleat and buttoned cuffs. Shoulder pads give a defined shoulder. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: knit fabric: shiny knits, thin cotton knits and silk knits.

Tech. Description

Classic Collared Long Sleeve Blouse

When To Wear

Under a jacket or cardigan for the office.
On its own with trousers or a straight skirt, worn over the waistband.
For evening when made in shiny knit.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Semi-fitted, shaped by bust darts from the side seams on the front and two vertical darts on the back.

Length: Hip length, straight hem turned up and topstitched.

Collar: Open collar with lapels formed by the cut-on front facings; the collar is stitched along the outer edge and caught between the facings and the neckline.

Sleeves: Long, one-piece, set in with the cap eased. The opening is bound with a 0.5 cm bias binding, a pleat is folded at the lower edge, and the cuff fastens with 2 buttons.

Front: Front facings cut in one with the fronts; 5 buttons and buttonholes on the right front.

Back: One piece cut on the fold, with two vertical darts.

Finishing: A bias strip of lining fabric caught into the sleeve cap seam; shoulder pads.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Sewing knit with a stretch or narrow zigzag stitch, a bound sleeve opening, cuffs and a collar set between cut-on facings.

Fabric Recommendations

Knit fabric: shiny knits, thin cotton knits and silk knits.

Additional Supplies

Fusible interfacing (front facings, cuffs, one collar piece)
9 buttons
Shoulder pads
Lining fabric for the bias strip in the sleeve cap

Fabric & Materials

You will need: shiny knit fabric, 140 cm wide – to determine the length of material needed for cutting, lay out the paper patterns on the fabric width and determine the required length; fusible interfacing; 9 buttons; shoulder pads. Material recommendations: shiny knit fabrics, thin cotton and silk knit fabrics.

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:
Front – 2 pieces
Back – 1 piece on the fold
Collar – 2 pieces on the fold
Sleeve – 2 pieces
Cuff – 2 pieces
Sleeve Slit Facing – 2 pieces

Interfacing: reinforce the cut-on front facings and the cuffs with fusible interfacing. Fuse interfacing to only one Collar piece.

Sewing Instructions

General recommendations: pieces cut from shiny knit fabric are stitched with a special stretch stitch or a narrow zigzag stitch.
Stitch the darts.
Stitch the side and shoulder seams.
Turn up the hem allowance and topstitch.
Stitch the two Collar pieces together along the outer edge, turn right side out and, holding the open edges together, baste the collar to the neckline.
Fold the cut-on front facings to the right side and stitch them to the neckline over the collar. Between the ends of the facings, stitch the collar to the back neckline.
Turn the facings to the wrong side and slipstitch them to the hem and to the seam allowances.
Sleeves with cuffs: cut the opening on each Sleeve. Spread the opening into a straight line. Place the Sleeve Slit Facing (bias binding) on the sleeve, right sides together, and stitch along its long edge as close as possible to the edge of the opening. Press the binding over the seam, wrap it around the edge to the wrong side, turn under and slipstitch over the seam; the binding is 0.5 cm wide. On the wrong side of the sleeve, stitch both halves of the binding together diagonally at the top of the opening. Turn the binding of the front edge of the opening to the wrong side and baste it to the lower edge of the sleeve.
Stitch the sleeve seam. Fold and baste a pleat at the lower edge of the sleeve.
Fold the Cuff in half lengthwise, right sides together, and stitch the short ends; turn right side out. Stitch the outer half of the cuff to the lower edge of the sleeve, turn under the inner half and slipstitch over the seam.
Set in the sleeves, easing the caps and catching a bias strip of lining fabric in the cap area. Press the seam allowances in the cap area towards the sleeve, and the bias strip towards the front and back.
Sew in the shoulder pads.
Make 5 buttonholes along the right front edge and 2 buttonholes on each cuff. Sew on the buttons.