Can anyone help me with this collar please?

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I've been trying out a pattern from The great british sewing bee book. It's a bowling shirt with a flat collar.
Now I've followed the instruction to sew the front to the back and turn in the button band, and I've made the collar.
Now here's the problem!! The collar starts and finishes on the inside edge of the button band, so does not cover the unfinished top ( does that make any sense?)
So even though I understand how the collar attaches, the instructions don't tell me how the top of the button band is dealt with?!?
Please help this is sending my round the bend.
Thank you

It's difficult to advise without seeing all the instructions. Is it possible that the instruction for dealing with the button/buttonhole bands come later. Sometimes you fold the bands with their right sides together, then attach the half of the collar to the shirt,(back of the collar to the back and fronts of the shirt, match the notches) then turn the collar right way round and the bands sort of come with it. Then you hem the collar over the shirt and the button (hole) bands. I'm not sure that I'm explaining this very well, so have a look at the following instructions and see if it's any clearer.

Thanks for the reply, there is nothing more in the instrutions. In fact they are pretty poor!

Don't know what else to suggest apart from trying to find someone local who can have a look at it. I think I know how it should be done, but can't write it out, so that it makes even sense to me.

Thanks Dutch, I'll just have to wait until my expert comes home from her holidays!!!

Have you got ready made similar type shirt/blouse you can look at? Even a child's top? It might give you an idea of the construction techniques.
I must admit I didn't like the first sewing bee book, I didn't feel some of the instruction were very clear.

It's difficult to see - is the button band a separate 'placket' piece to the front of shirt, or is the shirt edge simply faced?

Well just read the reviews of this book, and now know that the instructions are wrong it's not just me! Yah!

The button band is just folded in as instructions in picture, then they tell you to follow collar instructions ( as in picture ) the words and the pictures don't match!! The collar starts and finishes on the inner edge of the band, the picture show it covering the band!!!

Cate, looked through mine and both my DD's clothes and not one collar the same!! Good idea though!
Thanks for all your help so far!!
I will not be beaten.

Yep, you're right, the photo shows the collar sitting inside the band, the diagram right up to the outer edge of..

How about just pinning the collar along the neckline, just to see where the finished edge will sit, as a guide?

Oh yes on the finishe dpicture the collar is 'short' of the neck edge but to the end on the instructions

For a collar that is short of the neck seem (like the picture of the finished item so that there is a gap in between the collar), you would sew the collar on first, and fold the button band (right sides together) over the collar...usually it would also have facing as well

Thanks all, I've finally found a blog tutorial thats going to help. Just as you describe Oldraver. They use bias binding. But I've worked out a way of doing it without the binding which also finishes the button bands too.
I'll know better for next time

Still a little annoying that a book like Great British Sewing Bee is full of such big mistakes!
Thank you all.

I didn't buy it partly because the early reviews said it was riddled with errors. It looks to me as though they gave the book production team a hard date to have the book in shops and that the testing and quality control phase got squeezed down to virtually nothing as a result.