How to sew a shirt with your own hands

Vera Olkhovskaya

The set-in bar is one of the simplest and most common types of fasteners.

It can be used not only on T-shirts, blouses, windbreakers and dresses, but also in skirts instead of the traditional vent.

Sometimes the slots of the sleeves are processed with a set-in bar.

For processing, you will need 2 parts of the strap, a shelf and a doubler, suitable for the fabric from which the product is sewn.

We start with markup.

The bar is marked with three verticals and one horizontal (Fig. 1).

With this free pattern for a boy's shirt, you can cut both embroidered shirts and blouses or other children's shirts. Free pattern sizes 34 – 42

The set of free patterns includes patterns for the back, front and non-stop sleeves.

Since the collar and cuffs are rectangular in shape, they are not included in the pattern set, but how to cut the collar and cuffs and how to calculate their dimensions is described in the descriptions of cutting and sewing.

Detailed description of cutting and sewing embroidery look at the website of Vera Olkhovskaya

This method of processing the neck is suitable for products with embroidery on the shelf and with an insert from an embroidered border (Fig. 1).

A complete description of cutting, sewing a men's shirt like "vyshyvanka",
and also see patterns from 42nd to 52nd and from 52nd to 62nd size.

So, if you are using a ready-made embroidered border, then sewing a shirt should begin by joining the border and the shelf into one whole.

Vera Olkhovskaya

The fastener on the side of the kosovorotka, according to academician Likhachev, was created specifically so that the pectoral cross would not fall out during work.

They made the fastener more often on the left, less often on the right. If the fastener was processed with a strap, the top wasand embroidered right strap.

On the basis of the kosovorotka, tunics were sewn (see photo) during the time of Tsarist Russia and for the Bolshevik cavalry army.

In this article, it is proposed to process the fastener of the blouse with a set-in placket on the left side, the right placket on top.

Patterns kosovorotkas / embroidered shirts / gymnasts 42 - 52, 52 - 62

It should be noted that the processing of the neck of the kosovorotka (Fig. 1) takes place in two stages: the processing of the fastener and the stitching of the collar.

When you start embroidering on a typewriter, many questions arise.

Some of the most important ones are what interlining to use and how to embroider a pattern that does not fit in the hoop.

In addition, after watching this video tutorial on machine embroidery for beginners, you can figure out which embroidery is better - machine or manual.

I embroider a polo shirt (T-shirt) in the traditional Ukrainian style.

The design imitates cross stitch...

The popularity of ethnic clothing is growing every day!..

Please note that regardless of the “nationality” of the product, the cutting rules are always the same.

Let's consider them on the examples of men's t-shirts and women's blouses, embroidered in the Ukrainian style.

The men's shirt on the set-in placket has a large embroidery on the front, embroidered fragments on the bottom of the sleeve and an embroidered collar. On the women's blouse, only a shelf is embroidered ...

Sewing lessons from Vera Olkhovskaya

If you are sewing clothes, then you probably know that the set-in bar is one of the easiest and most convenient ways to process fasteners.

It can be used both for sewing dresses and knitted polo.

And tailoring of ethnic clothes today is simply unthinkable without a set-in strap, as it looks great on blouses and embroidered shirts in combination with a stand-up collar.

This video master class talks about sewing with a set-in strap, which only fits under stand-up or stand-up collars. Now about how to sew...

Sewing a men's shirt is quite simple, since the main difficulty - tucking in the sleeve is eliminated - the sleeve is non-stop.

This means that the sleeve is immediately sewn on a typewriter without combining the highest point of the eyelet and the shoulder point.

This video tutorial on sewing for beginners shows the sequence of sewing after making a fastener. In this case, the set-in strap.

So, watch how to sew a men's shirt in a video tutorial for beginners from Vera Olkhovskaya. Links to other videos and illustrated articles on the same topic are below ...

Download for free a ready-made pattern of a men's summer shirt for a teenager and read how to sew it correctly according to the pattern. Also, at the bottom of the article are links for downloading ready-made pdf patterns of women's shirt dresses.

For beginners, this model will seem difficult because of the collar and pockets, so the difficulty level is medium. For a detailed step-by-step instruction for beginners for this pattern, read below ⬇️.

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