We sew a summer blouse for a baby with our own hands

All mothers are well aware that children grow very quickly. However, in order to update the wardrobe of your beloved children, it is not at all necessary to go to the store - a handicraft mother can sew many things with her own hands, and in a very short time.
A striking example of this is a light summer blouse for a baby, which can be sewn in just 30 minutes.
The blouse pattern can be copied from a magazine dedicated to children's fashion, or printed after first copying it from a specialized website.
To sew such a product, it is best to use thin, if possible natural fabrics (linen, cotton, a mixture of cotton and linen in one fabric). Then the blouse will be comfortable to wear and easy to care for.

The details of the blouse in question are as follows:

1. Shelf – 1 solid piece;
   
2. Back – 2 parts (with middle seam);
   
3. Sleeve – 2 parts;
   
4. Strip for processing the neck - 1 piece.

The last detail is cut during the sewing process of the blouse.

First you need to process the middle seam. It must be stitched at a distance of a centimeter from the cut, overlocked and ironed.

Then you need to process the side seams of the blouse - stitch them down to 1 cm, overlock them with an overlocker and iron them towards the back.

Next, you should pin the blouse to the base. To do this, you need to fold it in half (the wrong side should be on the inside), align and pin all the outer sections, as well as the side seams.
Next, you need to mark the bottom line of the blouse, as shown in the photo. The bottom of the blouse should be trimmed along this line (cut with scissors).

Then you need to iron the bottom of the blouse 2 cm towards the wrong side, and then another 1 cm, bending the bottom seam allowance to half the width.
A pre-ironed hem will be much easier to hem on a machine, especially if it has a rounded shape.

The bottom of the blouse needs to be hemmed by machine.

Then you can move on to preparing the sleeves - stitch, overcast and iron their lower sections.

The bottom of the sleeves should be ironed similarly to the bottom of the blouse.

An elastic band will be inserted into the hem of the sleeves. The bottom of the sleeves should be hemmed similarly to the bottom of the blouse, but near the bottom seam you will need to leave a small unstitched area in order to insert an elastic band.

The prepared sleeves should be sewn into the open armholes of the blouse. For convenience, you can first sweep them in or pin them with pins. The stitching seam for the sleeve is 1-1.2 cm. Allowances for processing it after stitching need to be overcast and ironed onto the sleeve.

After the sleeves are sewn in, you should measure the length of the resulting blouse neck. To this figure you need to add 5 cm for reserve.
It is necessary to cut out a strip from the blouse fabric, the length equal to the resulting number, and the width equal to the width of the elastic band plus 2.5 cm. The neck of the blouse will be processed with this strip.
It needs to be ironed to length.One of its end sides must also be ironed, turning it 1.5 cm inward.

The strip should be stitched to the neck of the blouse, starting the stitching from the pressed end edge attached to the middle back seam.
The second end edge should be folded inward in the same way. If necessary, excess strip length must be trimmed.
The ends of the strip should be sewn butt to each other.
The stitching seam must be processed using an overlocker and pressed onto the product.


A narrow elastic band should be inserted into the drawstrings of the sleeves and neckline. The ends can be sewn by hand, overlapping one another by 1 cm.
If necessary, the blouse can be ironed.
A light summer new outfit for the little beauty is completely ready.