hi everyone welcome back to my channel i hope you're doing good today today i'm going to show
you how i made this cowl neck top with just one meter of satin fabric it is very very simple
we are making it without a paper pattern so you can actually draft it directly on your
fabric if this is your first time here welcome please like subscribe and share
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to fold your fabric what you need is your hips measurement divided by four so my hips is 42
42 divided by four I have 10.5 so that is what I have here. So first, you draw your baseline
and then from the baseline, you measure the length of your top minus 22 and then I added 0.5
inches for hem allowance. Now after this you're going to mark your chest line the chest line is
your armhole divided by 2. Mine is 9.25 so I'll mark 9.25 and draw it into a straight line. Now
on the shoulder line and on the chest line, mark your shoulder measurement divided by two
and draw it into a straight line. On the chest line, divide the bust measurement by four
whatever you get, add 2.5 inches to it. The 2.5 inches includes ease allowance and seam allowance
Now mark whatever you have on the chest line, mark the same thing on the hem line, and draw it
into a straight line. Let's go to the shoulder line. The neck width I'll use is three inches
and the neck depth is 1.5 mark the neck width and the neck depth and draw the neckline curve
after that, depress the shoulder by one inch and connect the neck width with a slant line.
Now find the midpoint of what you have left make a mark and then draw your armhole curve.
So because this is a sleeveless top, go in by one inch on the shoulder line and then
reconnect the armhole curve. To give the blouse some shape at the waistline, go inward by about
0.5 inch on the waistline and draw the curve like this. Now let's cut. However on the armhole,
neckline and the shoulder line, cut 0.5 inch away from what you have because we will be using that
to finish those parts. This is the back pattern let's put that aside and cut the front pattern
to fold your fabric for the front pattern find the higher of your hips measurement divided by
4 and the desired length of your cowl. The desired length of my cowl is 14 while my hips measurement
divided by 4 is 10.5 so i have folded my front fabric using 14 inches. For the length of the
blouse, you would need to add extra inches. From this top, up to this line I have 12 inches which
is my shoulder to my underbust measurement, and from this line, up to the hem I have 21.5 inches
plus 0.5 inch allowance the 12 inches that I measured at first will be the lining for the front
so I am going to cut this so that we can concentrate on the fabric that we need
the first thing you're going to do is to fold the top part underneath.
Before you fold, you can notch it
now from the top fold, mark your chest line which is your armhole divided by
two and the under bust line and draw straight lines. On the chest line which is this first line
mark your bust measurement divided by 4 plus 2.5 just like we did for the back pattern and on the
hem line and draw a straight line. To give the blouse some shape, curve the line about 0.5 inch
inward at the waist region. Now let's concentrate on the neck region. From the top corner
of your fabric, find the point that will give you four inches diagonally and draw a straight line
this line is going to be your shoulder line. Now let's focus on the armhole curve.
To get the armhole curve, find a curve that will give you your armscye divided by 2 plus 0.5 inch.
My answer is 18 18 divided by 2 that is 9 plus 0.5 inch that is 9.5 inches so i'm trying to
find a curve that will give me 9.5 starting from the end of the diagonal line up to the chest line
after drawing the armhole curve, cut the front pattern. We are done with drafting
and also cut 0.5 inch away from the shoulder line.
Ensure to notch the on the bust and the chest line after cutting
after notching you can unfold the front pattern to get the full view of what it looks like.
Now let's get ready to sew
to start our sewing, first hem the lining of the front pattern - you know the end of the 12 inches
that we drew earlier you can either fold it two times, sew it straight down or you use a serger.
After doing that, fold the lining of the front pattern over the main bodice
right side facing and then sew the armhole.
Sew from about one inch away from this point up to the chest line do that on both sides and notch
while sewing, ensure to finish the neckline and the armhole of the back pattern
with a serger or you fold two times and after doing that iron it
now you see this part that we left open at the shoulder area put the shoulder area of the back
pattern through it right sides facing right sides. Pin it and then sew it just like this.
Ensure that you align the shoulder and then you're going to sew with a 0.5 inch allowance
at the shoulder area and other armhole area that we left open initially do the same thing
at the other shoulder put the shoulder area of the back pattern inside the front pattern
sandwich it and then you sew with a 0.5 inch seam allowance now to sew the sides of the blouse
put the sides of the back pattern in between the main body and the lining of the front pattern
ensure that it aligns and then you sew it to the 0.5 inch seam allowance
after sewing the last thing you are going to do is to hem the bottom of the blouse
you can fold it two times and then you sew or you serge it and then you sew now that you have
completed sewing it is time for the big reveal but first ensure to cut the excess at the shoulder
area so that it will not be bulky when you turn it to the right side now turn the blouse to the right
side and voila this is your top it is looking very very good the last thing we are going to do is to
understitch the shoulder area so you can turn it inside out this way and then you understitch
it so that the lining of the front pattern can be tucked in and not come out while you're wearing it
this is the end of the video thank you for watching I hope you learnt
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