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DIY detachable collar
Make your own detachable collar with this free sewing pattern

Is it just my imagination or is the fashion just so much more creative these days? I guess with the DIY / refashioning craze, we collectively have sprung out of the box. And look what we’ve come up with today: a very cool detachable collar.

Different models, variations on a theme: take an old shirt from your hubby when he is not looking and cut off the collar. Never mind if it’s frayed. We’re going to cover it.

Next: take some sassy lace from your stash, cut up a doily, take out your jewelry beads, and/or your crochet needle with some thread, and EMBELLISH that collar. Go as wild and crazy as you wish.

I quite dig this execution. It’s classy and elegant! The glittering spider winks to Halloween, but the blob of glitter there is just right. Finish the collar off in a fashion and color, in a way that suits your wardrobe and your style.

Detachable Collar DIY Tutorial

Materials

What you’ll need:

  • A piece of cotton fabric, approx. 25 x 60 cm (10 x 24 ins).
  • A piece of lace fabric, 15 x 60 cm (6 x 24 ins).
  • Fusible interfacing.
  • 1 button.
  • 1 brooch.
  • Sewing thread.

Step 1

Cut the collar off an old shirt, and include that upright section that has that shirt top button in the neck.

Step 2

To round the point of the collar, place a glass or cup over the edge of the collar, and mark the curve with a fabric marker or pencil. Also mark the mid section of your collar.

STEP 3

Transfer the collar pattern onto paper, and add a 1 cm seam allowance. Note: the straight edge you see in the picture is the middle back of the collar.

STEP 4

Use the paper pattern to cut your collar piece 2 times, on a fold. Iron interfacing to wrong side of one piece. Lay collar pieces together, right sides facing.

STEP 5

Sew it together like so:

  • Stitch edges together, at seam allowance width from edges, leaving approx. 5 cm (2 ins) open on inner edge of attached band, for turning.
  • Trim seam allowances, trimming diagonally across corners.
  • Turn collar right side out and press.
  • Sew seam opening closed.
  • Topstitch inner edge at width of band (approx. 3 cm/ 11/4 in from edge).
  • Fold attached band onto collar and press.
  • Work buttonhole in one end of band and sew button to opposite end.
  • Pin lace fabric to collar so that lace extends past front curves and past outer edge.
  • On these edges, trim lace along edges of lace pattern.
  • Fold lace over fold edge of collar and pin to attached band.
  • Sew lace to collar.
  • Attach brooch to right end of band.

Credit photos and instructions: Image credit: Burda. This site has removed this pattern. As a result, we added some detail to our original article. ref. burdastyle.com/techniques/detachable-collar

Article updated 8/2021; original 1/2013.


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