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From: Melanie T
Date: 06-30-2005, 06:10 PM (1 of 3)
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I need some suggestions/instructions for making a collar on a collarless dress. The pattern has a plain neckline and buttons up the front. I am thinking of a round flat collar or one with a slight roll. None of the collars on my other patterns are what I have in mind and I can't seem to find info on how to draft one myself in my sewing books. My other alternative is just to sew a lace collar to the dress and be done with it, but a regular collar should be more durable and wash longer. I want to make an oldfashioned style dress. The collar will make it look more authentic and dress it up a little bit. The rest of the pattern will work fine, and I am being cheap tonight. Plus, I want to sew this before a pattern would get here in the mail from the states. Thanks, Melanie
4 little sewing machine mechanics (6, 4, 2, Born June 14) Ontario Canada |
User: Melanie T
Member since: 09-21-2004 Total posts: 155 |
From: paroper
Date: 06-30-2005, 06:58 PM (2 of 3)
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Well, a flat Peter Pan collar is EASY. You just lay your pattern down matching the shoulders at the front and back. Decide how far forward you want the collar to extend. If the dress did not button up the front, you might want it to overlap at the front so that it "just met" at the center. Since you do have buttons, you will want to stop it some place close to or just outside the lap line of the front of the dress. Your collar pattern will follow the cutting line of the top of the dress. You can also trace off the stitching line since this will be the same. You'll have to decide how wide you want your collar and what the front corners should look like, curved, straight, sloped forward, etc. If you leave it flat like the dress, it will lay down. You can make small slashes in the collar and take out some of the fullness to make it stand up...all the way to a flat rectangle which will stand straight up. If you take fullness out of the back but not the front, you can make the collar stand and fold in the back like a man's shirt but lay down in the front. You can have a lot of fun with this but I'd make a cheap "top" just past the arm openings anyway, and then play with the collar to get the one I liked. This is actually a good exercise. Incidently, if you should ever loose a facing when sewing, this is how you create a facing too.
pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: Melanie T
Date: 07-01-2005, 09:42 AM (3 of 3)
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Thanks Pam! I appreciate your collar drafting description. Your cheap top pratice idea will be a great dickie for under a low neck dress once it completes its first job, too! I will let you know how everything turns out, though it will probably be at least 3 weeks until I am done, because I now have the opportunity to visit my parents for the next week. Melanie
4 little sewing machine mechanics (6, 4, 2, Born June 14) Ontario Canada |
User: Melanie T
Member since: 09-21-2004 Total posts: 155 |
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