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title: 'Diana draped top: Sewing Instructions'
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sidebar_label: Sewing Instructions
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sidebar_position: 20
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---
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## Step 1: Finish the back neckline
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- Cut a strip of main fabric the length of your back neckline, and around 3 cm
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wide.
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- Press a fold into this strip, 1 cm from the edge.
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:::tip
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For woven fabric make this a bias cut strip.
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For knit fabric make a strip with the stretch of the fabric running along the
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long edge.
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:::
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- With _good sides together_ align the non-folded edge of the strip with the
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back neckline.
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- Sew the strip to the back neckline and trim the seam.
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- Turn the strip to the wrong side of the fabric and _topstitch_ along the
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folded edge to keep it in place.
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## Step 2: Close shoulder seams
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- Finish the raw edge on the front neckline in a way that suits your fabric (if
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it doesn’t fray, you can leave it unfinished).
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- With _good sides together_, place the front on the back aligning the shoulder
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seams.
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- Fold the front neckline seam allowance over to the wrong side of the back.
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:::tip
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If you have a lightweight woven fabric you can fold this edge up again, so it
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will form a narrow double hem afterwards (it can help to press these folds
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first).
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:::
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- Stitch the shoulder seam, enclosing the raw edge of the back neckline in the
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fold.
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- Turn to the right side and press.
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## Step 3: Finish front neckline
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Press the hem formed in your fabric by the folds you made at the shoulder seam
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when you closed the shoulder and topstitch close to the edge.
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## Step 4: Attach sleeves
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The sleeve will be inserted flat, meaning the armhole seam will be sewn first
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and the sleeve and side seam will be closed in one go.
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- With _good sides together_, matching notches, pin the sleeve head along the
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armhole.
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- If necessary, ease in the sleeve head at the top, between the notches.
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- Sew, finish and press the seam.
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- Repeat for other sleeve.
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## Step 5: Close side and sleeve seam
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- With _good sides together_ pin the front to the back along the sleeve and
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side seams, making sure to line up the armhole seams.
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- Sew, finish and press the seam.
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## Step 6: Hem
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Finish the sleeves and bottom hems in a way that works with your fabric choice.
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Again, this can mean folding the hem under twice and _topstitching_, finishing
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the raw edge with a serger or zig zag stitch and folding it under once or
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leaving the edge raw, folding it under once and trimming close to the
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stitching.
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## Step 7: Enjoy!
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You're all done! Now go enjoy your new top!
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