This dress design is loosely based on a dress that I saw selling on Barneys.com for over $600. Instead of paying that price tag - you'll make your own!
While draping this dress you will learn how to:
- Manipulate front bodice dart fullness around the apex
- Work with style lines and piecing on the dressform
- Eliminate the back shoulder dart
- Create dart equivalents like pleats
- Add fullness to a skirt waistline
- Peg a skirt
While drafting the pattern you will learn how to:
- Mark pleats
- Draft a skirt vent
- Draft all-in-one neckline/armhole facings
While sewing the a finished sample of this dress you will learn how to:
- Sew pleats
- Instal and invisible zipper (review if you haven't already)
- Clean finish a neckline and an armhole at the same time with an all-in-one facing
- Make a professional looking skirt vent
Are you ready to get started? What will you need in addition to muslin and your regular supplies?
- A print-out of the pattern card (will use this initially for placing style lines on the form)
- 1/4" twill tape or style tape to mark style lines on your form
- About 2 yards of medium weight woven fabric
- Think EASY SEWING!
- No corduroy or velvet
- No stretch fabric or knits
- No sheers
- Quilter's cotton, tightly woven linen, or light weight twills or sateens are great choices
- You don't need this until your drape is complete, but start thinking about and looking for what you would like to use
- Using contrasting fabrics often looks great on this dress
- About 1/2 yard of medium weight fusible interfacing
- A 22" invisible zipper that matches your fabric (as close as possible)
- A small wire hook & eye
- Matching thread
- Piping or other trim is optional
- A garment bag for turning it in on
This is the pattern card that we will be using:
We will also be specing out the final dress:
Here is the evaluation form that will accompany your finished sample and pattern:
