Now let’s move on to making the shirt collar.

To do this, prepare the collar stand. Iron the outer stand over 1 cm.

The upper and lower collars are placed right sides together and topstitched with a one-centimeter stitch. For curves and corners, trim the seam allowances with scissors and snip or cut them off. This prevents the corners from becoming too thick when turned, and the seam allowances can be laid flat. It's especially important that the seam isn't cut. Therefore, we recommend sewing just before the point and away from it with a shorter stitch length. This ensures a corner that won't fray as quickly after trimming.

After turning, you should shape the corners with a corner and edge former and then iron them.

Use a gusset seam to ensure the collar has the right amount of roll width. This is necessary to ensure the shirt collar fits nicely around the curve and to ensure there's enough fabric. This is why the upper and lower collars are different sizes.

Depending on your sewing project, you can topstitch the outer edges, which makes them nice and flat and secures them.

Here, Ellen shows you how the collar should roll. View of the top and bottom.

The upper and lower collars are now sewn together and can now be joined with the collar stand. To do this, take the inner stand and place it right sides together on the upper collar.

The pre-ironed outer panel is then stitched right sides together onto the inner panel and undercollar.

Before we can stitch the collar to the body, the buttonholes need to be sewn onto the hidden button placket on the right side of the body. To do this, draw the positions of the buttonholes from the pattern onto the hidden button placket and sew them through.

Now the collar is sewn on by pinning the inner seam, right sides together, to the neck hole and stitching it in place.

The collar is ironed upwards, leaving the seam allowance inside the collar. The previously ironed outer collar band is stitched in place with a close-edge seam. You can then stitch the entire collar band all the way around with a close-edge seam.

Have lots of fun with it!