Cropped Drawstring Waist Jacket with Ruffled Cuffs
Introducing a versatile women's sewing pattern for a utility-chic cropped jacket, distinguished by its cinched drawstring waist and charming ruffled cuffs.
When To Wear:
This jacket offers a blend of casual style and unique detailing, making it perfect for:
- Casual & Everyday: Ideal for stylish daily wear, providing a comfortable yet put-together look for errands or meet-ups.
- Transitional Weather: a lightweight layering piece that offers warmth without bulk, perfect for spring and autumn seasons.
- Statement Styling: Elevates basic outfits with its distinctive silhouette and playful features, pairing beautifully with high-waisted skirts or trousers.
Key Design Features
Silhouette: a relaxed, cropped fit ending just below the waist, with an adjustable drawstring at the waist that cinches the body to create a gathered peplum effect.
Collar & Lapel: Classic notched lapel collar, offering a versatile neckline that can be worn open or partially closed.
Closure: a practical zipper topstitched to the front edges below the lapels ensures easy wear and a modern finish.
Sleeves: Full-length set-in sleeves drawn in above the hem by a cord threaded through eyelets, forming charming ruffled ends that add playful volume.
Pockets: Stylish topstitched chest patch pockets, each topped with a flap.
Waist: An adjustable drawstring waist: a decorative cord threaded through eyelets, allowing for a customizable fit and silhouette.
Hem: a clean, straight hemline finishes the cropped length of the jacket.
Level Of Difficulty
Intermediate. Involves collar construction, setting a zipper, creating patch pockets with flaps, and installing eyelets for the waist and sleeve drawstrings.
Fabric Recommendations
Select medium-weight fabrics with some crispness to hold the jacket's structure and the details of the ruffled cuffs, such as:
- Linen fabrics
- Linen blend fabrics
Additional Supplies
- Fusible interfacing
- Eyelets
- Zipper
- Decorative cord
Cutter's Must
- From main fabric:
- Flap – 4 pieces
- Patch Pocket – 2 pieces
- Back – 1 piece
- Front – 2 pieces
- Collar – 2 pieces
- Center Front Facing – 2 pieces
- Sleeve – 2 pieces
- From fusible interfacing:
- Center Front Facing – 2 pieces
- Collar (under collar) – 1 piece
- Flap – 2 pieces
Sewing Instructions
- Fuse the Center Front Facings, the under collar and the flaps with fusible interfacing.
- Place the upper collar and under collar right sides together and stitch along the outer edges. Trim the corners, turn the collar right side out. Press the collar.
- Mark the placement of the pocket and flap. Place the flap pieces right sides together and stitch. Trim the seam allowances of the flap corners and turn out. Topstitch along the outer contour of the flaps 0.5 cm from the edge. Overlock the upper edge of the flap.
- Overlock the outer edges of the Patch Pocket and press them under using the pattern. Fold and topstitch the upper edge of the pocket. Topstitch the pocket along the contour 0.2 cm from the pocket edge. Place the flap at the marking and stitch it on. Turn the flap to the right side and topstitch 0.5 cm from the seam.
- Stitch and press open the sleeve seam.
- Overlock the outer edge of the Center Front Facing. Mark the hemline. Place the facing on the right side of the Front, right sides together, pin, and stitch along the front edge line. Stitch from the hem upwards to the notch marking the end of the collar seam. Stitch the lower edges of the facings to the Front exactly along the marked hemline. Trim the seams of the upper and lower front edge corners. Turn the front edges to the right side, straighten the seams, and topstitch 0.2 cm from the edge.
- Stitch the shoulder and side seams. Overlock the shoulder and side seams and press them towards the back.
- Insert the collar into the jacket neckline. Overlock the seam allowances and topstitch them down along the back neckline.
- Insert the sleeves into the armholes. Overlock the insertion seam. Baste and topstitch the zipper to the front edges. Overlock the bottom of the sleeve and jacket. Fold the bottom of the sleeve and jacket to the wrong side, press, and topstitch.
- Mark and install the eyelets on the sleeves and the jacket. Thread the cord through them.
