SUMMER TOP TUTORIAL

Summer top

Easy as pie

It’s really long bUt but I have no idea how I could make it any shorter.

It’s really hot here...

And cotton is the only thing that u can wear for more than an hour

I got this cloth piece from my mother in law. Its blue n summery n fun n but it didn’t have as much of a length as I would normally use for making my clothes

I decided to make one of the simplest tops.

Here goes my tutorial for making a ladies summer top

Now first and foremost wash the fabric

That’s important or u will end up with a garment that’s either misshapen or small if u r working with cotton.

Wash it let it dry completely and if u like it iron it which would make it easier to work with I didn’t have time to iron for one.

I was working before my baby woke up.

U lay down the fabric on any flat surface

Then you fold it twice lengthwise

Keep it aside

I’m using one of my old tops as pattern

Fold the top in half the front inside

Measure 3 in from the top and fold

Pin this down

Now measure three inch from the straight end

From her fold down till the end of the arm hole

Pin this down n around the edge too

Cutting the bodice

Now lay this over the folded cloth

And leave a 1 inch allowance and cut

You should be left with two pieces

One front and one back

Keep one piece aside

This is the back of the dress

Cutting the neck

Now cut a curve as shown on the other piece. I have made about three inch deep curve. you can make it according to preference.

This is the front

And what you just did is making the front neck deeper.

Now find a piece of clothes (you could do this after everything is cut even) which covers the potion which you cut.

Cutting the sleeves

Again twice folded u can do this one by one too

But I’m jus saving time

So anyway get a straight line along the longitudinal edge

Lay the diagonal end of your bodice piece u cut as a measure about 3 inch down and 1 inch away from the edge

Now cut as shown

 when u reach the end of the arm hole then you cut lengthwise down to which ever length you desire the length of your sleeves to be and cut till then u can narrow it a little as u go down I didn’t narrow much as I want to be very loose.

Now u will have two pieces that look like this.

Now your cutting is over now for stitching

The neck first laid the cloth over right sides together and stitch

You have to stitch on the wrong side of bodice

Cut the above potion

Trim the below potion to about an inch

Now nip with scissors as shown

Turnover and iron

Now fold twice and stitch along the edges as shown below

wrong side of front neck

 

front neck

Fold twice and stitch:

Top and bottom of both arm piece

And the back neck

Now lay down as shown all wrong sides up pin them if it helps you

Align the arm n neck as shown
Stitch the arm pieces to the bodice

Zig zag the edges

It should look like this

Fold

Should look like this

Iif any excess is left at arm, cut it

Do the stitching on both sides

Zig-zag the sides
Use free arm sewing n fold twice n do the sleeves

Try it on cause by now I always do

Then take off and fold twitch and stich the edges

The thinner the better looking it would be 

So happy sewing

summer top