Carigan-Style Guipure Lace Jacket

Name: Carigan-Style Guipure Lace Jacket
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 5289
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #5289

A women's collarless cardigan-style jacket in guipure knit, with a round neckline, a six-button front and long set-in sleeves with wide cuffs split at the seam. The front edges and neckline are finished with topstitched facings. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: openwork knit fabric (guipure) for the body; a blended fabric for the trim.

Tech. Description

Carigan-Style Guipure Lace Jacket

When To Wear

Over dresses, slip dresses or camisoles for daytime events and dinners.
In late spring and summer, as a light layer with trousers or skirts.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Straight and loose, no darts or shaping seams.

Length: Hip length, slightly curved hem.

Neckline: Collarless round neckline; the front facings and back neck facings are joined into one and topstitched, showing on the drawing as a band around the neck and down the front.

Closure: Six buttons, buttonholes on the right front.

Sleeves: Long set-in sleeves, eased into the armhole. Wide interfaced cuffs, folded double, with a slit left open in the cuff seam; topstitched along the attachment seam, the lower edge and the slit.

Back: One piece, no centre back seam.

Finishing: Shoulder seams stabilised with a selvage strip. Seams stitched with a narrow zigzag or stretch stitch; hem overlocked and stitched with a twin needle.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Sewing openwork knit with stretch stitches, stabilising shoulder seams, joined front and back neck facings, slit cuffs and buttonholes in knit.

Fabric Recommendations

Openwork knit fabric (guipure) for the body; a blended fabric for the trim.

Additional Supplies

Fusible interfacing (front facings, back neck facings, cuffs)
6 buttons
Selvage strip or stay tape for the shoulder seams

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:
Front – 2 pieces
Back – 1 piece
Front Facing – 2 pieces
Sleeve – 2 pieces
Cuff – 2 pieces
Back Neckline Facing – 2 pieces
From fusible interfacing: Front Facing, Cuff, Back Neckline Facing.

Sewing Instructions

Tip: To keep the material stretchy in the areas of finished seams, stitch the cut pieces with a narrow zigzag or special stretchy stitch. To keep the bottom edge stretchy, the hem should be overlocked with an overlock stitch, and then stitched using a twin needle. The same applies to the finishing of other edges of the product that should not lose elasticity. These recommendations do not apply to industrial production.

Fuse interfacing to the Front Facings, Cuffs and Back Neckline Facings.
Stitch the Back Neckline Facings to the shoulder edges of the Front Facings.
Overlock the inner edge of the Front Facings and Back Neckline Facings.
Stitch the shoulder seams, catching a selvage strip in the seams to stabilize them.
Stitch the joined Front Facings and Back Neckline Facings to the front edges and around the neckline of the fronts and back. Turn the facings and topstitch them in place.
Stitch the side seams.
Stitch the sleeve seams.
Fold each Cuff right sides together and stitch the short ends into a ring, leaving a slit open in the middle of the seam; clip the seam allowance at the slit. Fold the cuff in half lengthwise, right sides together, and stitch the edges of the slit.
Attach the cuffs to the bottom of the sleeve and overlock the upper edge of the cuff together with the sleeve.
Topstitch the cuff seam allowances onto the sleeve, then topstitch along the lower edge of the cuff and around the slit.
Set in the sleeves, easing the cap.
Hem and topstitch the bottom of the garment.
On the right front, make buttonholes, and on the left front, sew on buttons.