Rounded Collar Blouse with Front Pleats

Name: Rounded Collar Blouse with Front Pleats
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 5760
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #5760

A women's short-sleeved blouse with a round-ended collar on a stand, a five-button placket folded to the right side, four narrow pleats on each front stitched from the neckline and released towards the hem, and bust and waist darts. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: double-faced blouse fabric of natural or blended fibres: silk, viscose, polyester (the placket is folded to the right side, so the reverse shows).

Tech. Description

Rounded Collar Blouse with Front Pleats

When To Wear

For the office with a pencil skirt or trousers.
In spring and summer, tucked in or worn loose.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Semi-fitted, shaped by bust and waist darts on the fronts and darts on the back.

Length: Hip length, hem overlocked, turned up and topstitched.

Collar: Collar with rounded ends set between two stand pieces; upper collar and inner stand interfaced, stand and collar topstitched.

Front: Four pleats on each front, folded right sides together, stitched from the wrong side from the neckline to a cross mark and pressed towards the centre front.

Closure: Five buttons on an interfaced cut-on placket, folded twice to the right side and topstitched along its inner edge; buttonholes on the right front.

Sleeves: Short set-in sleeves with an eased cap, hems overlocked, turned up and topstitched.

Back: Centre back seam with darts pressed towards it.

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

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Evenly stitched release pleats, a collar on a stand and a placket folded to the outside.

Fabric Recommendations

Double-faced blouse fabric of natural or blended fibres: silk, viscose, polyester (the placket is folded to the right side, so the reverse shows).

Additional Supplies

Fusible interfacing (front plackets, upper collar, inner stand)
5 buttons

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:

Back – 2 pieces
Front – 2 pieces
Sleeve – 2 pieces
Collar – 2 pieces
Stand Collar – 2 pieces

From fusible interfacing:

Collar – 1 piece
Stand Collar – 1 piece
Placket (cut-on front placket, by the Front pattern) – 2 pieces

Sewing Instructions

Fuse interfacing to the cut-on front plackets, the upper Collar and the inner Stand Collar.
Place the upper and lower Collar pieces right sides together. Stitch the ends and the outer edge of the collar. Trim the seam allowances. Turn the collar right side out, shape, and press. Place the Stand Collar pieces right sides together, sandwich the finished collar between them, align the notches, and stitch, simultaneously stitching the ends of the stand. Start and end the stitching exactly at the marked neckline seam line. Turn the finished collar right side out and press.
On each Front, fold the first pleat along the marked lines, right sides together. Stitch the pleat from the wrong side, from the neckline down to the cross mark. Make the remaining 3 pleats in the same way. Press the pleats towards the center of the front, as shown in the illustration.
Stitch the darts on the front panels. Press the waist darts towards the center of the front, and the bust darts upwards. Stitch the darts on the back. Press the darts towards the center seam. Stitch the center seam of the back. Overlock and press the seam.
Stitch the shoulder and side seams. Overlock the seams and press them towards the back. Fold the cut-on plackets twice to the right side and topstitch along their inner edge.
Stitch the outer Stand Collar with the Collar to the neckline, turn under the raw edge of the inner Stand Collar and stitch it in the ditch of the attaching seam. Topstitch along the stand and collar.
Stitch and overlock the sleeve seams. Set in the sleeves, easing the cap.
Overlock the bottom edge of the garment and sleeves, press to the wrong side, and topstitch.
On the right front, work buttonholes; on the left, sew on buttons.