Drawstring Waist Shirt Blouse with Sleeve Ties
Discover a versatile women's shirt blouse pattern featuring an adjustable drawstring at the lower edge and drawstring tie details on the sleeves, offering a relaxed yet refined silhouette.
When To Wear
This blouse is designed for adaptable styling, perfect for a variety of occasions:
- Casual Chic Outings: Ideal for relaxed daywear, brunch, or light social gatherings when paired with trousers or skirts.
- Vacation & Resort Wear: Its breathable fabric recommendations and adjustable fit make it perfect for warmer climates.
- Everyday Elevated Style: a comfortable yet polished choice for daily wear, easily dressed up or down.
Key Design Features
Silhouette: a relaxed, cropped shirt blouse that is cinched with a drawstring just above the hem, creating a flattering, customizable shape.
Neckline & Collar: Features a classic pointed shirt collar with a structured stand.
Closure: a front button closure with folded-in (cut-on) plackets.
Sleeves: Long set-in sleeves with two drawstring casings on each sleeve, gathering the sleeve above the elbow and above the hem, which forms a small frill at the wrist.
Waist: A topstitched drawstring casing around the lower body, with the ties coming out through buttonhole openings at the front, allows an adjustable, gathered fit and a short frill below.
Hem: a straight hemline at a cropped, high-hip length.
Level Of Difficulty
Intermediate. Requires familiarity with collar and stand construction, button plackets, and creating drawstring channels & ties.
Fabric Recommendations
Choose lightweight and breathable woven fabrics that will drape well and hold structure:
- Cotton fabrics
- Linen fabrics
- Blended fibers
Additional Supplies
- Fusible interfacing
- 6 buttons
Cutter's Must
- From main fabric:
- Front – 2 pieces
- Back – 1 piece
- Collar – 2 pieces
- Stand Collar – 2 pieces
- Sleeve – 2 pieces
- Front Casing – 2 pieces
- Back Casing – 1 piece
- Upper Casing – 2 pieces
- Lower Casing – 2 pieces
- From fusible interfacing:
- Collar (upper collar) – 1 piece
- Stand Collar – 1 piece
- Front plackets – fuse along the cut-on placket of the Front
Sewing Instructions
- Fuse interfacing to the plackets, the upper Collar and the Stand Collar.
- On the Fronts and Sleeves, work the tie openings as buttonholes at the markings, first fusing a small piece of interfacing to the wrong side.
- Press the placket to the wrong side along the fold lines. Press the double-folded plackets to the wrong side, baste them to the neckline edges of the Fronts and stitch them at the lower edges of the Fronts.
- Stitch the shoulder seams of the blouse.
- Stitch the side seams of the blouse.
- Stitch the upper and under Collar together, trim the allowances and turn right side out.
- Stitch the Stand Collar pieces together, inserting the Collar between them.
- Stitch the inner stand with the collar to the neckline, turn under the open edge of the outer stand and topstitch it into the attachment seam.
- Stitch the sleeve seams.
- Press the hem of the sleeve to the wrong side and topstitch.
- Stitch the Front Casings to the Back Casing.
- On the casing strips, press the long edges to the wrong side by 0.8 cm. Place the strips on the wrong side of the blouse and sleeves, turn under the ends and baste. From the right side, topstitch the strips along the markings: the Upper Casing and Lower Casing on the sleeves, and the joined Front and Back Casings on the body.
- Set in the sleeves, easing the cap.
- On the ties, turn under the ends. Fold the ties lengthwise and stitch 0.7 cm from the fold. Turn out the ties and press. Stitch the ends closed. Thread the ties through the casings.
- Turn up and topstitch the hem of the blouse.
- Make buttonholes on the right front and sew the buttons on the left front.
