YOU NEED: sheer cotton/linen;
decorative braid; 13 small buttons.
NB!
Before sewing, print paper patterns and lay them out according to the linen
width (from 90 to 150 cm) to find out how much material you need (do not forget
about double and symmetric details).
CUTTING:
Fabric:
1. Middle front part
– 2 pieces
2. Side front part –
2 pieces
3. Middle back part –
1 folded piece
4. Side back part – 2
pieces
5. Sleeve – 2 pieces
6. Collar – 2 folded pieces
7. Cuff – 4 pieces
Additionally: 2 pipings for sleeve slits
(16 cm length and 2 cm width each).
Fusing:
1. Collar – 1 folded piece
2. Cuff – 2 pieces
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Stitch front/back relieves and shoulder seams.
Press relieves toward middle parts. Stitch the braid to middle front parts/middle
back part at 0.5 cm from relieves.
2. Cut
sleeves as marked. Process slit edges with the piping, width is 0.5 cm. Cut the piping diagonally at slit’s top (sleeve’s wrong
side). Stitch sleeves into armholes. Stitch sleeve/side seams with one stitch.
3. Press right placket one-piece facing for blind fly
into wrong side, then press closure facing/placket into wrong side. Stitch the
facing as marked. Stitch the braid on right front part at 0.5 cm from front
edge. Fold closure placket up to front edge and press it.
4. Press left front one-piece into wrong side and fold
it double. Topstitch front edging’s inner side along edge. Press hem allowance
into wrong side and topstitch.
5. Cut a bias stripe for 5 loops and make narrow roll
of it. Cut the roll into 5 equal pieces.
6. Topstitch a braid on outer collar at 0.5 cm, from
outer edge. Make a loop of one of rolls and tack it to outer collar’s right
edge with the loops toward the collar. Process collars along outer edges
neatly. Stitch outer collar into the neckline. Fold inner collar under and pin
it to joining seam.
7. Topstitch the collar to right side along joining
seam.
8. Make
pleats into sleeve hems laying x on o, then tack them.
9. Topstitch the braid on outer cuffs at 0.5 cm from
marking along short rounded and long outer edges. Tack two loops to each short
rounded edge with loops toward cuffs.
10. Overstitch 2 cuffs neatly along outer edges.
Stitch outer cuff to sleeve hem’s right side catching slit’s front edge
trimming folded into wrong side. Fold inner cuff under and stitch it to joining
seam.
11. Make buttonholes into closure blind placket. Sew
flap buttons to left front part so that buttons were at buttonholes’ tops. Sew
buttons of loop’s colour to the collar and the cuffs.