Button-Front Sleeveless Blouse

Name: Button-Front Sleeveless Blouse
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 5124
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #5124

A sleeveless, hip-length women's blouse with a round neckline, a four-button front with facings cut in one with the fronts, bust darts and vertical waist darts, and armholes bound with bias strips. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: blouse fabrics, such as viscose poplin.

Tech. Description

Button-Front Sleeveless Blouse

A sleeveless, hip-length women's blouse with a round neckline, a four-button front with facings cut in one with the fronts, bust darts and vertical waist darts, and armholes bound with bias strips.

When To Wear

In summer with skirts, shorts and trousers.
Under a jacket at the office.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Semi-fitted, shaped by side bust darts and vertical darts at the front and back.

Neckline: Round neckline finished with an interfaced back neck facing joined to the front facings, turned inside and topstitched close to the edge.

Sleeves: Sleeveless; armholes bound with a folded bias strip stitched 0.75 cm from the edge, wrapped to the inside and stitched in the ditch from the right side.

Front: Centre front opening with grown-on, interfaced facings; four buttons, buttonholes on the right front.

Back: One piece cut on the fold, no centre back seam, with two vertical darts.

Finishing: Side and shoulder seams pressed open; hem double-turned and topstitched 0.75 cm from the edge.

Level Of Difficulty

Beginner. Darts, a combined neck and front facing, bias-bound armholes and buttonholes.

Fabric Recommendations

Blouse fabrics, such as viscose poplin.

Additional Supplies

4 buttons
Fusible interfacing (back neck facing, front facings)

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:
Front (cut in one with the facing) – 2 pieces
Back – 1 piece on the fold
Back Neckline Facing – 1 piece on the fold
Bias strips for binding the armholes – 2 pieces

From fusible interfacing:

Back Neckline Facing – 1 piece on the fold
Center Front Facing – 2 pieces

Sewing Instructions

Fuse fusible interfacing to the Back Neckline Facing and the front facings.
Stitch the darts; press the vertical darts towards the center of the front/back and the bust darts upwards.
Place the side edges of the Back Neckline Facing and the short edges of the front facings right sides together and stitch. Press the seam allowances open. Baste the joined facing along its upper edge to the neckline and stitch. Turn the facing to the wrong side, press and topstitch close to the edge from the right side of the blouse.
Stitch the side and shoulder seams. Press the seam allowances open.
Bind the armholes: trim the armhole seam allowances. Fold the bias strip in half lengthwise and press. Pin the folded strip to the armhole 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.
Press the hem allowance of the blouse to the wrong side, turn under and topstitch 0.75 cm from the edge.
Make buttonholes on the right front and sew the buttons on the left front.