Gathered Neckline Button Front Blouse

Name: Gathered Neckline Button Front Blouse
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 5572
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #5572

A women's loose hip-length blouse with long set-in sleeves. The front and back are gathered into a wide double-layer neckband, and the front closes with seven buttons on topstitched plackets; the sleeves are gathered into closed band cuffs. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: fine silk and viscose fabrics.

Tech. Description

Gathered Neckline Blouse

When To Wear

For the office with trousers or a pencil skirt.
With jeans or under a cardigan in spring and autumn.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Loose, straight body with fullness from the neckline gathers.

Length: Hip length, straight hem with a 2 cm allowance, overlocked, turned up and topstitched.

Neckline: Round neckline finished with a wide band made of two interfaced facing layers (front and back facings joined at the shoulders). The front and back are gathered evenly into the band; the inner layer is topstitched over the attachment seam.

Sleeves: Long, set-in with ease at the cap, gathered at the lower edge into a folded, interfaced band cuff sewn into a ring, with no opening.

Closure: Separate interfaced plackets sewn to the fronts and topstitched; seven buttons, buttonholes on the right front.

Back: Centre back seam, gathered into the neckband.

Finishing: Shoulder and side seams overlocked and pressed towards the back.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Even gathering into a double neckband, topstitched plackets, gathered sleeves with cuffs and work with fine, slippery fabrics.

Fabric Recommendations

Fine silk and viscose fabrics.

Additional Supplies

Fusible interfacing (cuffs, plackets, front and back neck facings)
7 buttons

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:
Back – 2 pieces
Back Facing – 2 pieces
Placket – 2 pieces
Front – 2 pieces
Front Facing – 4 pieces
Sleeve – 2 pieces
Cuff – 2 pieces
From fusible interfacing: Cuff, Placket, Front Facing, Back Facing.

Sewing Instructions

Fuse interfacing to the Cuff, Placket, Back Facing and Front Facing pieces.
Attach the Placket to the Front. Press the seam open. Overlock the outer edge of the placket and press it to the wrong side. Topstitch the placket.
Stitch the shoulder and side seams of the blouse. Overlock the seams and press them towards the back.
Join the Front Facings to the Back Facings at the shoulders, forming an upper and a lower facing. Press the shoulder seams open.
Along the upper edge of the front and back, stitch 0.5 cm from the edge with loosely tensioned stitches. Gather the upper edge to match the length of the facing neckline edge, distributing the gathers evenly along the entire length.
Overlock the outer edge of the lower facing. Place the facing pieces right sides together and stitch. Trim the seam allowances at the corners, turn the facings right side out, and press.
Attach the upper facing to the blouse neckline. Turn under the lower facing and topstitch it over the seam attaching the upper facing.
Fold the cuff in half lengthwise, wrong sides together, and press. Unfold the cuff, stitch its short ends together into a ring and press the seam open.
Along the lower edge of the sleeve, stitch 0.5 cm from the edge with loosely tensioned stitches. Gather the lower edge to match the length of the cuff, distributing the gathers evenly along the entire length.
Stitch and overlock the sleeve seam. Press the seam. Attach the cuff to the lower edge of the sleeve. Overlock the cuff seam.
Set in the sleeves, easing at the cap.
Overlock the hem seam allowances of the garment, turn to the wrong side, and topstitch.
On the right front, make buttonholes; on the left front, sew on buttons.