CUTTER'S MUST
- From main fabric:
- 1. Center BACK PANEL - 1 piece on fold
- 2. Side BACK PANEL - 2 pieces
- 3. Side FRONT PANEL - 2 pieces
- 4. Center FRONT PANEL - 2 pieces
- 5. SLEEVE - 2 pieces
- 6. SLEEVE CUFF - 2 pieces
- 7. COLLAR - 2 pieces
- From FUSIBLE INTERFACING: reinforce the integrated FACING and CUFFS with FUSIBLE INTERFACING. Press the interfacing to only one COLLAR piece.
Sewing Instructions
- Reinforce the integrated FACING, CUFFS, and lower COLLAR with FUSIBLE INTERFACING (Heat-activated interfacings are pressed to the wrong side of the piece with a hot iron).
- Stitch the princess seams of the FRONT PANEL and BACK PANEL. Overlock and press open the SEAM ALLOWANCES.
- Sew the side and shoulder seams. Turn up the hem allowance to 1.5 cm and topstitch.
- Cleanly stitch the COLLAR along the outer contour and, bringing the raw edges together, baste it into the neckline.
- Turn the integrated FACINGS to the right side and stitch them to the neckline edge over the COLLAR. From the ends of the FACINGS, stitch the COLLAR into the back neckline.
- Turn the FACINGS to the wrong side and sew them to the lower edge of the blouse.
- Sew the SLEEVE seams. Overlock and press open the SEAM ALLOWANCES.
- Ease each SLEEVE cap between the NOTCHES. To do this, along both sides of the marked SLEEVE insertion seam line, stitch a machine line with a large stitch, slightly gathering the fabric on the bobbin thread.
- Fold the SLEEVE with the garment right sides together and pin it into the armhole, initially only in its lower part, aligning the SLEEVE seam with the side seam and the transverse NOTCHES on the FRONT PANEL and SLEEVE. Do not ease either the armhole or the SLEEVE!
- Pin the SLEEVE above the blouse's shoulder seam, aligning the transverse NOTCH on the SLEEVE cap with the seam. Then pin the SLEEVE into the upper part of the armhole, easing it slightly and evenly.
- Baste and stitch the SLEEVE from the SLEEVE side, starting the seam at the SLEEVE seam. Overlock the SEAM ALLOWANCES together. In the cap area, press the SEAM ALLOWANCES towards the SLEEVE.
- Fold the CUFF in half lengthwise and cleanly stitch along the short edges. Stitch the outer half of the CUFF to the lower edge of the SLEEVE, turn under the inner half and sew it over the attachment seam.
- Along the placket of the right FRONT PANEL, overlock 5 buttonholes, sew buttons onto the left.
