Ruffled Front Blouse
Introducing a sophisticated women's blouse pattern featuring gathered ruffles along the front button placket and distinctive shirred sleeves for a touch of romantic elegance.
When To Wear
This versatile blouse is perfect for a range of occasions, adding polish and style to:
- Everyday Elegance: Elevates casual outfits with a refined and feminine touch.
- Office & Professional Settings: a stylish yet appropriate choice for work or business casual environments.
- Social Gatherings: Ideal for brunches, dinners, or semi-formal events, offering a chic and comfortable option.
Key Design Features
Silhouette: a fitted, classic blouse silhouette that elegantly skims the body, shaped with waist darts on the front and back.
Neckline & Collar: Features a sharp, classic shirt collar on a separate collar stand for a crisp finish.
Closure: a centre front button placket with 5 buttons provides a neat and functional closure.
Front Detail: Gathered flounces with rolled-hem edges run along both sides of the front placket from the collar to just above the hem, adding a romantic and eye-catching detail.
Sleeves: Long, set-in sleeves without cuffs; the lower sleeve is shirred with rows of hat elastic stitched on with zigzag, ending in a soft frill at the wrist.
Back: a back cut in one piece, designed with waist darts to ensure a flattering, tailored fit.
Hem: a straight hem designed for versatility, allowing the blouse to be worn tucked in or out.
Level Of Difficulty
Intermediate. Requires skills in dart construction, placket and collar stand assembly, creating ruffles, stitching on elastic, and setting sleeves.
Fabric Recommendations
Choose lightweight woven fabrics with good drape for the best results:
- Lightweight linen or linen blends
- Cotton blends
- Viscose
Additional Supplies
- Fusible interfacing
- 5 buttons
- Hat elastic
Cutter's Must
- From main fabric:
- Back – 1 piece
- Front – 2 pieces
- Flounce – 2 pieces
- Collar – 2 pieces
- Stand Collar – 2 pieces
- Sleeve – 2 pieces
- Placket – 2 pieces
- From fusible interfacing:
- Placket – 2 pieces
- Collar (upper collar) – 1 piece
- Stand Collar – 1 piece
Sewing Instructions
- Fuse interfacing to the Plackets, the upper Collar and the Stand Collar.
- Mark and stitch the waist darts on the fronts and back. Press the front darts towards the centre front and the back darts towards the centre back.
- Press the Placket in half lengthwise, wrong sides together. Press under the outer edge of the placket by 0.7 cm, place the unpressed edge of the placket on the wrong side of the front and stitch.
- Finish the outer edge and the short lower edge of the Flounce with a rolled hem. Along the inner edge of the flounce, 0.5 cm from the edge, run a line of loose gathering stitches. Gather the edge to the required length, distributing the gathers evenly along the entire length.
- Baste the flounce under the pressed edge of the placket so that the short lower edge of the flounce ends above the hem allowance. Topstitch the placket onto the blouse 0.2 cm from its pressed edge. Remove the basting. Stitch the short upper edge of the flounce to the front neckline edge 0.5 cm from the edge.
- Stitch the shoulder and side seams of the blouse. Overlock the side and shoulder seams. Press the shoulder and side seams towards the back.
- Stitch the under collar and upper Collar together around the edge and turn the collar right side out.
- Stitch the Stand Collar pieces together with the collar sandwiched between them.
- Stitch the inner stand with the collar into the neckline, catching the short upper edge of the flounce; turn under the open edge of the outer stand and topstitch it along the attachment seam. Topstitch around the collar.
- Mark the lines for the hat elastic on the sleeve. Stitch the hat elastic along the lines with a zigzag stitch. Stitch the sleeve seams.
- Set in the sleeves, easing the sleeve cap.
- Work buttonholes on the right front and sew buttons on the left front.
- Overlock, turn up and topstitch the hem of the blouse and the sleeve hems.
