How to sew a collar and look original and stylish

The tendency to wear a separate collar over clothes is far from new, since the Middle Ages, huge attention was paid to women of fashion and mods starched stoechkam and demonstrated neat collars overhead.

Modern needlewomen, lovers of original things and exclusive accessories, went much further in their fantasies and craftsmanship, thinking about how to sew a collar. In many respects talented designers come to the aid of modern accessories, an endless variety of goods for needlework. Therefore, making overhead collars with their own hands today is not so much difficult as exciting and interesting.

How to sew a collar, it will be interesting not only to the designer-professional, but also to the beginning lover. Carrying out this detail in different techniques, you can independently choose the level of complexity and try to create yourself a beloved cute gift yourself.

Well, let's see how to sew a collar, and what are its variations.

One of the methods, the easiest and fastest, is to have a ready-made collar with an old shirt to decorate to your taste. For this classic shirt with a collar is very suitable.

So, you need:

-to find a shirt suitable for the color and style,

- gently cut off the collar from the main part of the product,

-work manually or on the typewriter cropped edge - the basis for creativity is ready,

- now begins the most interesting - the decoration of the collar and the transformation of his magic movements of your hands into a work of art and a beautiful elegant accessory.

There are infinitely many options: you can play on contrasts, you can make a collar in one color, playing on a half-tone overflow of the material that you decided to decorate. It can be beads, large beads of pearls, rhinestones, small and large sequins, hand embroidery with smooth or cross-stitch. You need to imagine with what clothes you are going to wear the finished product. With a smart dress or as an addition to the everyday pullover.

The next option is slightly more complicated, it is how to sew the collar yourself.

In order to create from scratch scratch collars with your own hands, do the following:

- use a pattern of different types of collars: a collar on a detachable stand, a collar on a one-piece post, a turn-down collar;

- Transfer the details of the paper pattern to the fabric from the wrong side, cut them along the contours and stitch them. It is advisable to do this on the typewriter, but it is possible and neat by hand, only with the smallest stitches. The lower part of the collar can be worn already after you turn it out, and you can leave a small cut and through it turn out on the front side of the collar.

Important: to ensure that the collar is rigid and held in shape, it is possible to lay a fleece or doublerine between its two parts. This self-adhesive fabric is very easy to use, just attach it to the part and iron it with a warm iron as the product takes shape. For collar-racks it is very convenient. In addition, you can make a collar of leather or fur.

Then you just have to decorate it to your taste. In addition to the ideas already described above on how to sew a collar with your own hands, you can suggest decorating it with pieces of fur, a vintage brooch at the place of joining halves, a textile rose or poppy seeds, which can also be made independently.

To decorate a beautiful guipure, it looks great combination of white with black or red with black. However, it is impossible to list all the variety of variations, you can only not be too lazy and try to do it yourself!

Successful creation to you! Lovely needlewomen! Be fashionable and irresistible !!!