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Halter Keyhole Blouson with Side Tie

Pattern #5623

Create a stylish blouson-style top, drafted to your own measurements, featuring a halter neckline with a keyhole detail and a flattering side tie. This versatile design is great for casual style, resort wear, or summer evenings. Choose lightweight fabrics with good drape to enhance the blouson effect and flowing ties.

Tech. Description

Halter Keyhole Blouson with Side Tie

Introducing a stylish women's sewing pattern for a blouson-style top featuring a chic halter neckline with a keyhole detail and a flattering side tie.

When To Wear

This versatile top is designed for relaxed elegance, making it an ideal choice for:

  • Casual Chic & Daytime Events: Perfect for brunches, garden parties, or elevated everyday wear.
  • Resort & Vacation Wear: Its light, breezy design and flowing ties are ideal for warm-weather getaways.
  • Summer Evenings: Can be dressed up with tailored trousers or skirts for relaxed evening gatherings.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Relaxed blouson fit, gathered at the waist with a flowing side tie detail.

Neckline: High halter neckline finished with bias binding, with a small, elegant keyhole opening at the front neck.

Closure: A single button with a bias-binding loop at the front neckline above the keyhole.

Sleeves: Sleeveless, with cut-in halter armholes finished with bias binding.

Waist: The gathered lower edge is set into a waistband whose long tie ends pass through a slit in the left side seam and tie at the side, creating a blouson effect above it.

Back: Clean back with a high neckline bound with bias binding.

Length: Ends with the waistband at the hip, creating volume above the tie.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Requires experience with bias tape application, neat gathering techniques, and precise construction of the tie waistband.

Fabric Recommendations

Choose lightweight fabrics with good drape to enhance the blouson effect and flowing ties:

  • Fabrics made from natural or blended fibers

Additional Supplies

  • Fusible interfacing
  • Bias tape
  • 1 button

Cutting Plan

  • From main fabric:
    • Back – 1 piece
    • Front – 1 piece
    • Waistband – 2 pieces on fold
  • From fusible interfacing:
    • Waistband – 1 piece

Sewing Instructions

  1. Fuse the waistband with fusible interfacing.
  2. On the front, mark and cut out the keyhole.
  3. Press the bias binding in half lengthwise and finish the edge of the keyhole.
  4. Finish the neckline of the back and front with bias binding, forming a loop on the right side of the front.
  5. Stitch the dart on the front. Press the dart upwards.
  6. Finish the armhole edges with bias binding, forming a strap from the bias binding. Adjust the strap length during fitting.
  7. Stitch the left side seam, leaving a slit in the seam for the waistband. Overlock the seam and press it open, pressing the slits.
  8. Stitch the right side seam. Overlock and press the right side seam towards the back.
  9. Fold the waistband right sides together and stitch from the notch along the tie ends and then along the lower edge. Turn right side out and press.
  10. Sew a line of stitching with loose tension 0.5 cm from the edge along the bottom edge of the top. Gather slightly.
  11. Stitch the outer layer of the waistband to the top. Press the seam towards the waistband. Press the open edge of the waistband down and topstitch into the seam.
  12. Sew a button on the left side of the front.

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