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1 hour
Taught by Gretchen Hirsch
Learn how to make this sassy, vintage-inspired blouse right alongside Gretchen. You’ll learn how to adapt a pattern, change seam allowances and add a collar. These more advanced techniques can be fussy, so you’ll learn the best tailoring practices from Gretchen – including stay stitching, darts, tucks and a lapped zipper. You’ll finish with this versatile blouse as well as new techniques to add to your sewing repertoire.
Lap zipper
Triple stitch hem for thin fabrics
Bias tape the neckline
What you’ll get:
Learn how to:
Adapt your collar from existing patternLap zipper
Triple stitch hem for thin fabrics
Bias tape the neckline
What you’ll get:
- An easy-to-follow lesson on how to sew a sailor blouse
- 10 HD video lessons you can access online anytime, anywhere
- Detailed supply list
- Downloadable PDF pattern included - $16 value
- Step-by-step instruction by expert instructor Gretchen Hirsch
- The ability to leave comments, ask questions, and interact with other students
Chapters
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00:31
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03:32
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07:32
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11:38
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04:23
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08:41
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15:44
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11:03
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14:56
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09:08
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08:58
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Materials
Here’s what you’ll need:
Materials:
- 1½ yards of lightweight cotton fabric (Gretchen uses hot pink polka-dot cotton sateen)
- ½ yard lightweight woven fusible interfacing
- pattern making paper (or tracing paper)
- copy of portrait blouse pattern printed and cut out
- small cork board and push pins
- 2" x 18" clear grid ruler
- paper scissors
- pencil
- french curve
- glass head pins
- tracing wheel and wax pattern transfer paper
- fabric scissors
- hand sewing needle
- thread that matches your fabric
- fabric snips
- 9" regular zipper in a color to match fabric
- 1 package of ½" wide single fold bias tape in a color that matches your fabric
- sewing machine with standard presser foot and zipper foot
- iron and ironing board
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