Pattern Hack: Sew a Chambray Top with a Front Button Opening | FREE Pattern

Bring together the skills from the Buttons & Buttonholes Playlist and create this beautiful chambray top with a professional centre-front button opening. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to pattern hack my heirloom-inspired sleeveless top to create a front button opening, complete with a faced centre front, interfacing, buttonholes and buttons. I’ll also show you how to construct and attach the gathered hem frill for a beautifully finished garment. For this version, I’ve used lightweight chambray, but linen, linen blends, cotton and cotton blends would all work beautifully. In this tutorial: • Pattern hacking the original sleeveless top • Adding a centre-front button opening • Creating the button extension and facing • Adding interfacing for stability • Adapting the front frill for the button opening • Constructing and attaching the gathered frill • Continuous binding around the neckline and armholes • Sewing buttonholes • Attaching buttons • Achieving a professional garment finish If you’re new to the channel, The Sewing Whisperer is all about professional sewing techniques, pattern making and garment construction — helping you understand not just how to sew a garment, but why the techniques work. FREE PATTERN: Download the 14-size pattern and follow along with the tutorial. ✨ Download the FREE PDF pattern (sizes 4–30) here: A0 pattern: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1okRUqMs7AMZ557GciSaLgvpKYU77d5ZI/view?usp=sharing A4 Pattern: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qDEXS