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## Finish the back neckline
### Step 1: Finish the back neckline
Cut a strip of self fabric the length of your back neckline, and around 3 cm wide.
Press a fold into this strip, 1 cm from the edge.
- Cut a strip of main fabric the length of your back neckline, and around 3 cm wide.
- Press a fold into this strip, 1 cm from the edge.
<Tip>
Make this a bias cut strip if you are using a woven fabric,
or a strip with the stretch direction running along the long edge if you are using a knit.
For woven fabric make this a bias cut strip.
For knit fabrc Make a strip with the stretch of the fabric running along the long edge.
</Tip>
Align the non-folded edge of the strip with the back neckline with good sides together.
Sew the strip to the back neckline and trim the seam. Turn the strip to the wrong side of the fabric
and topstitch along the folded edge to keep it in place.
- With *good sides together* align the non-folded edge of the strip with the back neckline.
- Sew the strip to the back neckline and trim the seam.
- Turn the strip to the wrong side of the fabric and *topstitch* along the folded edge to keep it in place.
## Close shoulder seams
### Step 2: Close shoulder seams
![This drawing was too nice not to use](neckline.jpg)
Finish the raw edge on the front neckline in a way that suits your fabric
(if it doesn’t fray, you can leave it unfinished).
- Finish the raw edge on the front neckline in a way that suits your fabric (if it doesn’t fray, you can leave it unfinished).
- With *good sides together*, place the front on the back along the shoulder seams.
- Fold the front neckline seam allowance over to the wrong side of the back.
Place the front on the back with good sides together, aligning the shoulder seams.
Fold the front neckline seam allowance over to the wrong side of the back.
<Note>
If you have a lightweight woven fabric you can fold this edge up again, so it will form a narrow
double hem afterwards (it can help to press these folds first).
If you have a lightweight woven fabric you can fold this edge up again, so it will form a narrow double hem afterwards (it can help to press these folds first).
Stitch the shoulder seam, enclosing the raw edge of the back neckline in the fold.
</Note>
Turn to the right side and press.
- Stitch the shoulder seam, enclosing the raw edge of the back neckline in the fold.
- Turn to the right side and press.
## Finish front neckline
### Step 3: Finish front neckline
Press the hem formed in your fabric by the folds you made at the shoulder seam when you closed the shoulder and topstitch close to the edge.
- Press the hem formed in your fabric by the folds you made at the shoulder seam when you closed the shoulder and topstitch close to the edge.
## Attach sleeves
### Step 4: Attach sleeves
The sleeve will be inserted flat, meaning the armhole seam will be sewn first and the sleeve
and side seam will be closed in one go.
The sleeve will be inserted flat, meaning the armhole seam will be sewn first and the sleeve and side seam will be closed in one go.
Place the sleeve head along the armhole, with *good sides together* and matching notches.
If necessary, ease in the sleeve head at the top, between the notches.
- With *good sides together*, matching notches, pin the sleeve head along the armhole.
- If necessary, ease in the sleeve head at the top, between the notches.
- Sew, finish and press the seam.
- Repeat for other sleeve.
Sew, finish and press the seam.
### Step 5: Close side and sleeve seam
## Close side and sleeve seam
- With *good sides together* pin the front to the back with along the sleeve and side seams, making sure the armhole seams line up.
- Sew, finish and press the seam.
Place the front on the back with good sides together so the side seams and sleeve seam
match and the whole thing starts to look like a shirt.
Make sure the armhole seam lines up across the front and back.
### Step 6: Hem
Sew, finish and press the seam.
- Finish the sleeves and bottom hems in a way that works with your fabric choice.
## Hem
<Note>
Finish the sleeves and bottom hems in a way that works with your fabric choice.
Again, this can mean folding the hem under twice and topstitching, finishing the raw edge with a serger
Again, this can mean folding the hem under twice and *topstitching*, finishing the raw edge with a serger
or zig zag stitch and folding it under once or leaving the edge raw, folding it under once and
trimming close to the stitching.
</Note>
### Step 7: Enjoy!
You're all done! Now go enjoy your new top!