Quick&Dirty Tunic Construction

Here's my instructions for assembling a tunic with flat-felled seams. As with most hands-on things, this works much better in person. Please feel free to email me if you have questions or if I'm unclear.
Sylvie (sylvie@fibergeek.com)

The nice thing about having a shoulder seam is that it's easier to fold the tunic.. and it's easier to tell the front from the back (front neck line dips down further). That said, shoulder seams are entirely optional.


On the left, flattened tunic with one arm lined up on it. Wrong side colored grey. Stitches marked in dotted grey on detail on the right.

a. Line up gusset with corner of arm and flat-fell completely.
b. Sew gusset to body, only sew half the flat-fell seam.
c. Line up gusset with other corner of arm. Sew first seam of gusset and then continue on and sew the first seam along the bottom of the arm. Finish flat-felling that seam (gusset and arm)
d. Sew last side of gusset to body. Only sew half the flat-fell seam.
e. Finish the flat-fell seam around the gusset and the shoulder.

6. Flat fell the seam between the two gores. I prefer to work from the top of the gore towards the hem.
That's it. Just hem the bottom, the wrists and the neck line and you have it.
