How to Draft and Sew Women’s Peasant Top

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If you would like to learn how to draft a peasant top or dress, you are at the right place. Here you will learn how to sew your own peasant top using your old top.

 

 

 

This is a quick and easy-to-sew peasant top sewing pattern that every beginner seamstress must give a try. This tutorial is complete with explicit instructions and color photographs which will help you complete the top in an hour or even less.

 

 

 

The possibilities to personalize these tops are endless; you can make it with short sleeves, long sleeves, or three-fourth sleeves. You can increase the length of your top, add an elastic beneath your bust line and make it a tunic!  Moreover, these tops are roomy and comfortable to wear throughout the year irrespective of the weather changes.

 

How to Draft and Sew a Peasant Top

 

Supplies Required

 

• Cotton Fabric-To find the required yardage, double the length of the top and add double the required sleeve length to it. In my case, the required length of my top is 23” and the sleeve length is 5” (refer below). So the required length of the fabric is:

(23 “x 2) + (8.5” x 2)= 46” + 17”=63”

Therefore, the required Yardage is approximately 2 yards

• 3/8-inch elastic.

What I took is 25 inches. You may increase or reduce the length depending on the depth of the neck you need.

Measure around your upper arm and reduce an inch to get the required elastic length for the sleeve. You will need two pieces with the same measurement.

Add up the lengths of the neck elastic and the sleeve elastic to get the total length of the elastic needed.

 

All the fabrics used here are 45 inches in width.

The fabrics shown here are only for illustration purposes and as such may vary from the original.

The seam allowance is ½-inch unless otherwise specified.

I suggest you read the entire pattern once before starting to get a general idea.

All seams are to be pressed flat

All seams are to be finished by zig zag or serger.

 

 

Let’s first find out the measurements:

*You will need to measure around your bust line (make sure to hold the tape not too loose or tight). I got mine as 36”.

*You will also need the required length of your top. Hold the tape from the top of your shoulder to where you want your top to stand. This would give you the required length. I took mine as 23”.

 

* For the armhole and neck, here I have used one of my old tops.

 

Now let’s calculate the length and width of our fabric pieces, required for the top.

 

 

Next, we need to cut our sleeve pieces.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let’s attach the sleeve pieces to the bodice pieces.

 

 

 

 

 

Let’s finish the neckline.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next, we finish the sleeve with elastic.

 

 

 

You may optionally do a 3/4^th sleeve or a full sleeve and add elastic in the middle of the sleeve.

Next, we do the side seams.

 

 

Let’s do the lower hem of the top.

 

 

 

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