Videos in the Series

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  The Perfect Blouse, with Sandra Miller: Introduction

  Learn how to make a man-tailored shirt in this 15-part series hosted by Sandra Miller of Cutting Line Designs.
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  The Perfect Blouse: Determine the Correct Size

  Find out what body measurements you need to take and then how to choose the correct size pattern to before you start sewing the perfect shirt.
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  The Perfect Blouse: Prepare the Pattern

  Learn a few practical steps to follow in the beginning when you prepare the pattern, pin it to the fabric, cut out the garment sections, and mark the cut pieces…
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  The Perfect Blouse: Prepare the Right and Left Fronts

  Make the buttonhole placket accurately using Sandra Miller's steps for the garment fronts. Edgestitching plays a key role in getting it right.
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  The Perfect Blouse: Make the Pocket

  Learn how to make and use a pressing template and then how to achieve precise edgestitching to create a professional-looking breast patch pocket on a classic shirt.
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  The Perfect Blouse: Construct the Collar

  Learn expert pressing and stitching techniques to construct the collar on a men's style shirt, in this episode.
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  The Perfect Blouse: Construct the Back and Sew the Shoulder Seams

  Learn the burrito roll and other techniques for sewing a professional-looking blouse back with yoke and for sewing shoulder seams.
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  The Perfect Blouse: Attach the Collar Band and Collar

  Preparing and sewing the collar band sections and the collar to a men's-style shirt requires you to pin, stitch, and press accurately.
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  The Perfect Blouse: Install the Sleeve Plackets

  Sandra Miller shares key pressing and stitching tips you can follow when installing sleeve plackets on a traditional-style shirt.
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  The Perfect Blouse: Install the Sleeves

  To install sleeves on a traditional shirt, you must join two garment sections with opposing curves. Sandra Miller shows you how.
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  The Perfect Blouse: Attach the Cuffs

  Sewing instructor Sandra Miller demonstrate specific pressing and trimming techniques to help you attach the cuffs on a shirt accurately and smoothly.
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  The Perfect Blouse: Hem the Shirt

  Follow Sandra Miller's straightforward method to hem a shirt and learn several tips for making sure the narrow hem has a smooth, clean finish.
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  The Perfect Blouse: Make the Buttonholes

  Find out how to make the buttonholes on a shirt by measuring and marking correctly. Then learn how to place the buttons.
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  The Perfect Blouse: Hem Design Options

  Discover how to create two hem design options: a vented mitered shirt hem, and a flat-felled seam and clean-finished sleeve hem.
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  The Perfect Blouse: View A Blouse Details

  Sewing instructor Sandra Miller takes a final look at a completed men's style shirt and the construction and finishing details to include on one you make yourself.
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  The Perfect Blouse: Make a Camp Shirt

  Make a camp shirt using some of the construction techniques learned from making a men's style shirt earlier in this series.
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  The Perfect Blouse: Two Perfect Blouses Wrap-up

  Two perfect blouses resulted from Sandra Miller's fine construction techniques. She shared those methods in this multipart shirt-making series.