Flounced Front Collared Blouse

Name: Flounced Front Collared Blouse
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 5287
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #5287

A hip-length women's blouse with a cascading flounce along the front opening, a shirt collar with the flounces caught into its outer edge, and long set-in sleeves with cuffs. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: silk and viscose fabrics.

Tech. Description

Flounced Front Collared Blouse

A hip-length women's blouse with a cascading flounce along the front opening, a shirt collar with the flounces caught into its outer edge, and long set-in sleeves with cuffs.

When To Wear

For the office with trousers or a pencil skirt, tucked in or worn loose.
For dinners and daytime events in spring, summer and autumn, under a cardigan or jacket.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Straight and loose through the body, shaped with darts on the fronts and the back.

Length: Hip length, straight hem.

Collar: Shirt collar in two layers (upper and under collar), with a left and a right flounce stitched into each layer, so the flounces start at the collar and continue down the front edge.

Front: Button closure on the left front with 5 buttons, finished with a bias strip and a front facing; the flounce covers the opening. Darts run from the side seams towards the bust.

Sleeves: Long set-in sleeves with eased caps, finished with cuffs.

Back: One piece with two vertical darts, no centre back seam.

Finishing: Front edge below the flounce topstitched; hems of the blouse and sleeves overlocked, turned to the wrong side and topstitched along the edge.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Flounces sewn into a two-layer collar, a collar set between the fronts and the facings, a bias-faced front edge, set-in sleeves with cuffs.

Fabric Recommendations

Silk and viscose fabrics.

Additional Supplies

Fusible interfacing (front facings, upper collar, cuffs)
5 buttons

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:
Front – 2 pieces
Back – 1 piece
Center Front Facing – 2 pieces
Sleeve – 2 pieces
Cuff – 2 pieces
Collar – 2 pieces
Left Flounce – 2 pieces
Right Flounce – 2 pieces
From fusible interfacing: Center Front Facing, upper Collar, Cuff.

Sewing Instructions

Reinforce the Center Front Facings, the upper Collar and the Cuffs with fusible interfacing.
Stitch the vertical darts on the Fronts and the Back.
Stitch the shoulder seams.
Stitch the side seams.
Stitch one Left Flounce and one Right Flounce to the upper collar, and the other Left Flounce and Right Flounce to the under collar. Place the under collar and the upper collar right sides together, with the flounces, and stitch around the outer edges. Turn the collar and flounces right side out and press.
Stitch the upper corner of the bias strip for the left front edge and turn it right side out.
Baste the flounce to the right Front. Baste the flounce and the prepared bias strip to the left Front.
Overlock the inner edge of each Center Front Facing.
Stitch the Center Front Facing to the right Front. Clip the upper collar and fold it back. Stitch the under collar into the back neckline, clip the upper collar again and stitch the Center Front Facing to the left Front.
Turn under the open edge of the upper collar and topstitch it into the under collar attachment seam.
Stitch the sleeve seams.
Set in the sleeves, easing the sleeve cap.
Overlock the hem allowances of the blouse and the sleeves, turn them to the wrong side and topstitch along the edge.
Sew the buttons onto the left Front.