Detachable Collar – Sewing pattern & tutorial

DETACHABLE peterpan collar

A detachable collar gives you the freedom of having a collar that you can attach with a variety of tops. These are suitable for crewneck t-shits and close neck tops. You can make it in a glittery fabric for a party vibe, in a lace fabric for an ethereal vibe, in a pretty color for a vibrant vibe. 

Related posts: How to draft and sew Peterpan collar; Make a faux dur collar; Names of different Collars 

How to sew the detachable collar

Step 1. Make pattern and cut fabric

To make this collar first, take a thin interfacing fabric. The kind you attach to give stiffness to fabric. Mark your collar design in this ( or better, mark on a scrap and test the pattern first) 

Fold a piece of interfacing and mark as in the following pattern picture. 

draw the pattern for a collar on interfacing material

When you open the collar pattern you get this. 

Open the pattern for the detachable  collar

Now mark this pattern on the main fabric and lining as well. Cut all of them out. Attach the interfacing on the back of your front piece.

I have my two pieces ready.

cut out two pattern pieces from outer fabric and lining

You can give a small dart on the back to make sure that the final collar will lie flat on your body. You can skip this dart, but the collar may stay a little detached and away from the body at the back. 

make a dart on the collar

Step 2. Sew collar pieces together

Keep them (fabric and lining pieces) together rightsides to the inside. ie their good faces facing and touching each other. 

Sew along the edges – the full round edge is sewn shut, leaving a two inch somewhere unstitched – leave it open for turning the collar right side out.

At this point, you can add a loop for the button opening ( or you can stitch it later); Or add ribbon to use as a tie.

You can keep a small elastic thread piece as a loop for the button as in the picture below.

a thread loop kept inside the detachable collar uter fabric and the lining

When you have finished sewing, Clip the seam allowance very generously – every 1/2 inch would do. The curves need to be smooth when you turn the collar rightside out. 

And then bring the collar rightside out through the opening.

bring the collar right side out

Slip stitch the opening closed (hand stitch) or top stitch with the sewing machine

DETACHABLE  collar brought rightside out

You need elastic thread and a button to keep the collar closed. 

top stitch the DETACHABLE collar sewing

Sew the elastic thread to the back of your collar (if you have’nt sewn the elastic thread to the inside already) ; sew the button also to the back. You can sew the button to the front – this is your choice. 

DETACHABLE peterpan collar

Make a detachable collar that looks like a sailor collar

Related post : Sailor collar tutorial

pattern for the detachable collar

Cut out 2 pieces of the pattern.

cut out 2 pieces of the pattern

Place the two pieces, rightsides to the inside. Keep ribbon or cord (to act as ties) inside, so that the cord is pinned to appear in the corner where you will be tying. As you sew along the outer edges ensure that the cord is not being stitched. Better to pin the whole thing thoroughly in the middle.

KEEP THE CORD INSIDE

Sew along the outside edge and inside edge. Leave 2 inches unstitched. Turn the collar rightside out through this unstitched part. Point the corners of the collar with something sharp like a chopstick or pencil.

the collar turned rightside out
detachable collar
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