Open Front Long Sleeve Tunic
Introducing a versatile women's sewing pattern for a relaxed tunic featuring a clean open front, long sleeves, and a subtle back neck closure.
When To Wear
This tunic offers adaptable styling, making it an excellent choice for:
- Casual & Everyday Wear: Perfect for comfortable yet chic daily outfits, layered over a camisole or top.
- Smart Casual Occasions: Easily elevated for informal gatherings, brunches, or relaxed evening events.
- Transitional Season Layering: Ideal for adding a light layer during spring, autumn, or cooler summer evenings.
Key Design Features
Silhouette: Relaxed, straight tunic length, designed for a comfortable and flowing fit.
Neckline: Classic round neckline, offering a simple and elegant frame.
Closure: Clean-finished open front, creating a modern and effortless layering piece. The back features a discrete keyhole opening with a button & loop closure at the neck.
Sleeves: Long set-in sleeves with a clean-finished hem.
Back: Features a center back seam with a small keyhole opening at the neckline, secured by a button and fabric loop.
Hem: Straight hemline, falling to tunic length.
Level Of Difficulty
Intermediate. Requires familiarity with setting in sleeves, applying facings, and creating a button loop closure.
Fabric Recommendations
Select lightweight fabrics with good drape to achieve the garment's fluid silhouette:
Additional Supplies
- Fusible interfacing
- 1 button
Long tunic
Fabric & Materials
Fabric recommendations: lightweight silk or viscose fabrics.
You will need: silk fabric with an openwork pattern, 150 cm wide; crepe-satin for facings, 140 cm wide; fusible interfacing; 1 button.
Cutting Plan
- From main fabric:
- Front - 2 pieces
- Back - 2 pieces
- Sleeve - 2 pieces
- From contrast fabric:
- Back neckline facing - 2 pieces
- Front facing - 2 pieces
- Sleeve facing – 2 pieces
- From interfacing: fuse the facings.
Sewing Instructions
- Stitch the front center seam, folding the front pieces wrong sides together and leaving the slit open at the bottom.
- Stitch the back center seam, folding the back pieces right sides together and leaving the slit open at the top.
- Press seam allowances open; press the back slit allowances to the wrong side.
- Stitch darts and shoulder seams.
- Stitch shoulder seams of back neckline facing and front facing, folding them right sides together, and the front center seam, leaving the slit open.
- Press the allowances of the inner edges of the facing to the wrong side, clipping them at the corners.
- Attach the neckline facing right side to the wrong side of the neckline edge.
- From the contrast fabric, cut a bias strip 5 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, and neatly stitch it into a narrow rouleau loop.
- Fold the rouleau into a loop the size of the button and baste it to the left edge of the back slit.
- Clip the seam allowance of the facing attachment at several places on the curves.
- Turn the facings to the right side and stitch them to the front edges of the slit.
- Baste the neckline and center front facing to the tunic and topstitch along the edge, catching the loop.
- Press the upper allowances of the sleeve facings to the wrong side.
- With right sides together, attach the facings from the wrong side of the sleeve to the hem allowances, turn to the right side, and topstitch onto the sleeves.
- Set sleeves into armholes.
- Stitch side seams and sleeve seams in one continuous seam.
- Press the hem allowance to the wrong side, turn under, and topstitch.
- Sew the button to the right side of the back slit so that the edges of the slit meet.
