Long Sleeve Lace-Up Utility Shirt
Discover a versatile women's sewing pattern for a long sleeve utility shirt, featuring a stylish lace-up front placket and multiple functional patch pockets.
When To Wear:
- Casual Everyday: Perfect for relaxed daily wear, offering comfort and style.
- Layering & Transitional Seasons: An ideal piece for layering over a tank top or under a light jacket.
- Effortless Chic: Elevate a simple jeans-and-tee look with its distinctive lace-up detail.
Key Design Features
Silhouette: a comfortable, straight-cut silhouette designed for a relaxed yet polished fit.
Neckline & Collar: Features a classic shirt collar with a structured collar stand.
Closure: Pullover style with a prominent lace-up front opening: a faced placket with 12 eyelets and a cord, backed by a folded Insert that fills the opening.
Sleeves: Long sleeves finish with neat buttoned cuffs.
Pockets: Four patch pockets with an inverted box pleat and buttoned flaps adorn the front, two at the chest and two at the lower hip.
Back: a clean back panel shaped with darts maintains the shirt's streamlined look.
Hem: The garment features a straight hem, ideal for wearing tucked or untucked.
Length: Designed to fall around hip length, providing versatile styling options.
Level Of Difficulty
Intermediate. Involves techniques such as collar & stand assembly, cuff construction, creating patch pockets with flaps, and inserting eyelets for the lace-up placket.
Fabric Recommendations
Opt for fabrics with a nice drape that will highlight the shirt's relaxed fit and details:
- Shirting fabrics
- Fabrics made from natural or blended fibers
Additional Supplies
- Fusible interfacing
- 6 buttons
- 12 eyelets
Cutter's Must
- From main fabric:
- Back – 1 piece
- Front – 1 piece
- Sleeve – 2 pieces
- Collar – 2 pieces
- Stand Collar – 2 pieces
- Placket – 2 pieces
- Insert – 1 piece
- Upper Flap – 4 pieces
- Upper Pocket – 2 pieces
- Lower Flap – 4 pieces
- Lower Pocket – 2 pieces
- Cuff – 2 pieces
- From fusible interfacing: Placket – 2 pieces, Collar (upper) – 1 piece, Stand Collar (upper) – 1 piece, Upper Flap – 2 pieces, Lower Flap – 2 pieces, Cuff – 2 pieces.
Sewing Instructions
- Fuse interfacing to the Plackets, Cuffs, upper Collar, upper Stand Collar, and 2 pieces each of the Upper Flaps and Lower Flaps.
- Stitch darts on the back and front. Press darts on the back towards the center, and on the front upwards.
- Fold an inverted box pleat on each Upper Pocket and Lower Pocket. Press the upper seam allowance of the pockets to the wrong side, fold under, and topstitch. Press the side and lower seam allowances of the pockets to the wrong side. Place pockets on the front according to markings and topstitch.
- Place the Upper Flap and Lower Flap pieces in pairs right sides together and stitch around, leaving the upper edge open. Trim the corners of the flaps and turn right side out. Straighten seams and press. Overlock the open edge of the flaps and work the buttonholes. Attach flaps to the front, turn down, and topstitch. Sew buttons onto the pockets according to the buttonholes.
- Place the Placket pieces right sides together and stitch a small section from the mark downwards. Press seam allowances open. Overlock the outer edges of the placket. Place the Placket on the Front, right sides together, and stitch around the neck opening. Trim allowances, turn the placket to the wrong side, baste, and press. Baste the outer edges of the placket to the front. Punch eyelets.
- Press the Insert in half crosswise, right side out, and overlock the edges. Topstitch the Placket to the Front according to the markings, placing the Insert underneath from the wrong side. Remove the basting.
- Place the Collar pieces right sides together and stitch along the ends and outer edge. Trim, turn out collar corners. Stitch the Stand Collar pieces together, sandwiching the Collar between them, starting and ending the stitching exactly at the neckline seam line. Turn right side out, press the finished collar.
- Stitch the shoulder and side seams of the blouse. Press seams towards the back and overlock.
- Stitch the lower Stand Collar with the Collar to the neckline, turn under the raw edge of the upper Stand Collar and stitch it in the ditch of the lower stand seam. Topstitch along the collar.
- Fold each Cuff right sides together and stitch the short edges, trim allowances at the corners, and turn right side out. Press cuffs.
- Overlock the sleeve edges. Stitch the sleeve seams, leaving a section unstitched from the mark downwards.
- Stitch the outer side of the Cuff to the bottom of the sleeve. Turn under the allowance of the inner side and stitch it in the ditch of the attaching seam.
- Set in the sleeves, easing the cap. Overlock the seam.
- Press the bottom of the garment to the wrong side, fold under, and topstitch.
- Insert the cord into the eyelets. Work buttonholes on the Cuffs and sew on the buttons.
- Tip: The cord can be ready-made or made from the blouse fabric.
