Plackets are made easy in just a few steps. A placket is simply a strip of fabric for an opening in a garment that will be joined in some way - buttons, hooks etc. [clickToTweet tweet="Plackets confused me terribly. I finally got it and now can easily make a placket for any garment." quote="Plackets confused me terribly.

Placket Pocket pocket or button hole How to make a placket pocket. She has one step in there I've not seen before, about only cutting the outer fabric dart. Placket Pocket ~tutorial~ I never perfected this relatively simple procedure - but I always loved the look of the well made placket pocket or button hole. It's so easy to put right sides together as a habit, so this is something to be aware of. You are placing the smaller sleeve placket binding piece toward the smaller side of the sleeve, and the bigger sleeve placket toward the bigger side of the sleeve. The line that they are butted together is the snip and dot that you marked in the last photo. Partial Button Placket Tutorial // Some helpful materials:-Ruler-Disappearing ink pen. To prep your top complete the facing and shoulder seams. Pin facing to neckline with right sides together and sew. Flip facing to inside of dress and press well. Topstitch along top neckline about 1/8? to 1/4? from neckline edge. I have chosen to show you a tutorial for the placket with the easiest finished width which is two times my preferred seam allowance (1 cm/ 3/8 inch) so in this case 2 cm width. That way you just have to cut a slit in your fabric (not like a wider opening), follow the seam allowance and you got your placket. I had drawn up a pattern for this Valentine shirt, but the original neckline was too small for her to slip over her head, and I wanted to make something a little more interesting anyway.So, I decided to figure out how to make a placket! I tried the real way, and while it turned out great, it was a lot of figuring out. In our previous tutorial we have shown you how to draft a