Maternity Hooded Shirt
A comfortable and stylish maternity hooded shirt featuring adaptive shaping relief seams and a functional front button closure for versatile wear.
When To Wear
This versatile hooded shirt offers comfort and style for a variety of occasions:
- Occasion: Casual Maternity Wear: Provides comfort and a chic look throughout pregnancy and postpartum.
- Occasion: Layering Essential: Perfect for pairing over various tops, offering a lightweight outer layer for changing seasons.
- Occasion: Everyday Comfort: Ideal for daily activities, blending relaxed ease with a put-together aesthetic.
Key Design Features
Silhouette: A relaxed, tunic-length A-line silhouette, thoughtfully designed to accommodate maternity comfort while offering a flattering shape.
Hood: An integrated three-piece hood with a front channel, featuring a decorative cord and cord stoppers for adjustable coverage.
Front Shaping: Curved relief seams extend from the armhole to the gently curved hem, subtly shaping the garment around the bust and providing ample room for a growing belly.
Closure: A full-length front button placket secured with six buttons.
Sleeves: Full-length set-in sleeves, finished with a simple hem.
Back Shaping: Vertical relief seams on the back extend from the armhole to the hem, mirroring the front for a cohesive and comfortable fit.
Hem: A gracefully curved shirt-tail hem adds a soft finish to the garment.
Level Of Difficulty
Intermediate. Requires skills in constructing relief seams, assembling a three-piece hood, and creating a button placket with buttonholes.
Fabric Recommendations
Choose light to medium-weight shirting and dress fabrics with good drape, preferably from natural fibers:
- Cotton shirting fabrics
- Linen and linen blends
- Viscose (rayon) shirting and dress fabrics
Additional Supplies
- Fusible interfacing
- 6 buttons
- Decorative cord
- Cord stoppers / aglets
Fabric & Materials
FROM INTERFACING: Front facings, back neck facing.
Cutting Plan
- 1. Center back piece – 1 piece
- 2. Side back piece – 2 pieces
- 3. Center front piece – 2 pieces
- 4. Side front piece – 2 pieces
- 5. Hood piece – 2 pieces
- 6. Center hood piece – 1 piece
- 7. Sleeve piece – 2 pieces
- 8. Front facing – 2 pieces
- 9. Back neck facing – 1 piece
Sewing Instructions
- Fuse fusible interfacing to the front facings and back neck facing.
- Stitch and serge the princess seams on the front. Press princess seams towards the center front. Stitch and serge the princess seams on the back. Press princess seams towards the center back.
- Stitch and press open the shoulder seams of the back neck facing and front facings. Serge the inner edges of the back neck facing and front facings.
- Stitch the shoulder and side seams. Serge the shoulder and side seams. Press shoulder and side seams towards the back.
- Attach the side hood pieces to the center hood piece and serge the seams. Mark and overcast the eyelets on the hood. Fold the outer allowance of the hood to the wrong side, fold again and topstitch onto the hood.
- Set in the hood to the neckline. Finish the neckline with the back neck facing and front facings. Finish the front edges with the front facings, trim excess fabric at the corners and turn the front facings right side out. Press the front edges. Secure the back neck facing and front facings with a tack stitch at the shoulder seam.
- Stitch the sleeve seams. Serge and press towards the back of the sleeve. Set in the sleeves, easing at the cap. Serge the armhole seam.
- Serge, fold, and topstitch the garment hem. Serge, fold, and topstitch the sleeve hem.
- Mark the buttonhole positions. On the right front, overcast the buttonholes, and sew buttons onto the left front.
- Thread the cord through the eyelets on the hood and attach cord ends.
