Facebook Email Pinterest Twitter Instagram Tiktok Icon YouTube Icon Headphones Icon Favorite Navigation Search Icon Forum Search Icon Main Search Icon Close Icon Video Play Icon Indicator Arrow Icon Close Icon Hamburger/Search Icon Plus Icon Arrow Down Icon Video Guide Icon Article Guide Icon Modal Close Icon Guide Search Icon
Insider

Sign in or become an insider to access this story

Sign In

The Perfect Blouse: Prepare the Right and Left Fronts

Video: Threads magazine

Sewing instructor Sandra Miller demonstrates how to prepare the right and left fronts for a button placket in this episode of The Perfect Blouse, a 15-part video series. She walks through the steps using a Cutting Line Designs pattern: The Blouse Perfected, View A.

Create the right front buttonhole placket

Make the right front buttonhole placket by marking and then folding the fabric at the foldlines. Take the time to accurately measure and stab-pin the folds before steam-pressing.

Cut a strip of interfacing 1 1/2 inches wide and the length of the front piece. Place it up against the second fold and then fold the fabric over the interfacing. Press.

Complete the buttonhole placket

Add paper-release fusible web tape on the underside of the second fold. Press it in place.

Refold the final fold and stitch 1/4 inch inside the front folded edge part of the way up from the bottom. Unfold the second fold and press the garment away from the placket. Stitch 1/4 inch from the edge, on the opposite side of the buttonhole placket.

Sandra recommends using an edgestitching foot. The foot has a blade to keep the fabric aligned f0r a straight line of stitching along the fabric edge. Press the garment front away from the stitching, then stitch 1/4 inch inside the garment edge, to complete the line of stitching on this edge.

Fold the left front placket

The left side will only be folded twice. (The fabric was folded three times to create the right front placket.) Use the same techniques for marking, folding, pinning, and pressing the folds on the left front that were applied on the right front. Also, add a strip of interfacing between the left front folds rather than next to them. Then add the fusible web tape to the second fold. Edgestitch the…

Discuss

About This Video Series

Sandra Miller, from independent patternmaker Cutting Line Designs, hosts this 15-part series on constructing a man-tailored shirt. Sandra has come up with a method of sewing with precision and helps others to do the same. In this video series exclusive to Threads Insiders, Sandra walks through the steps for creating the shirt while explaining techniques for: shirt collars collar bands plackets four-button front sleeve plackets cuffs, and other details Note: Two new installments are released each week…

More About this Video Series

Log in or become a member to post a comment.

Videos in the Series

More From Threads

Discussion Forum

Recent Posts and Replies

  • |
  • |
  • |
  • |
  • |
  • |

Threads Insider Exclusives

View All
View All

Highlights

Shop the Store

View All
View More