Introducing the Fern Shirt Sewing Pattern

This month’s patterns, Fern and Bloom, were designed with the idea of creating thoughtful and beautiful tops that work for your everyday life. The Fern top blends the effortless style of a button-up with more romantic details for a unique shirt that is equal parts polished and pretty.

The Fern shirt is a stylish raglan sleeve blouse that blends feminine style with refined details—featuring a gathered neckline finished with a contoured band collar for a polished look. The raglan sleeves provide ease of movement, while the bound finish at the sleeve hem adds a clean, professional touch. Unique staggered button placement creates the perfect opportunity to showcase your favorite buttons. Perfect for sewists looking to build on their skills, Fern offers a modern, flattering silhouette with thoughtful construction that will add sophistication to your handmade wardrobe.

Eden is wearing a size 4 Fern blouse with no adjustments. Her measurements are bust: 35" (88.9 cm), waist: 25 1/4" (64.1 cm), hip: 37" (94 cm), and she is 5'8" (172.7 cm) tall.

Tambrie is wearing the Fern blouse in a size 18 from our 12-30 size range. We shortened the sleeve length by 1/2". Her measurements are bust: 46" (116.8 cm), waist: 39" (99 cm), hip: 50" (127 cm), and she is 5'8" (172.7 cm) tall.

FABRIC AND FIT

Fabric recommendations:

For Fern look for lightweight woven fabrics such as cotton lawn, cotton voile, shirtings, cotton gauze, double gauze chambray, Swiss dot, linen, rayon challis, rayon crepe, and silk crepe.

Fern is the perfect shirt for letting a print shine. Plaids create a beautiful contrast to the gentle gathers of this top while floral prints emphasize the soft lines of this style. 

Fitting tips:

• Understanding ease will help you pick the right size or sizes. This tutorial will teach you all about design and wearing ease.


• Follow this tutorial to lengthen and shorten a sewing pattern.


• If you need to adjust the armhole depth, use this tutorial.


• If you want to blend between sizes, use this video tutorial.


• Here are tutorials for small bust adjustments and full bust adjustments.