While draping this dress you will learn how to:
- Drape a princess bodice
- Drape on the bias
- Drape a surplice top that crosses over the center front line
- Contour around the bust with darts and pleats
- Drape a six-gore (princess panel) flared skirt
- Drape and open neckline collar
- Use your sleeve sloper to draft a cap sleeve
Now that you are pattern drafting pros, I'm giving you a busy-work breather before you begin your final dress project. You won't need to transfer this drape to paper. What you will need to do is:
- Neatly true each drape
- Mark and cut correct seam allowance
- Cut additional duplicate pieces to make a full wrap dress so that the dress will have:
- Right front surplice bodice
- Left front surplice bodice
- Full back bodice
- 2 side back bodice
- 2 cap sleeves
- 1 collar
- 1 tie (will draft)
- 2 front skirts
- 3 side front skirts
- 1 back skirt
- 2 side back skirts
- 1 side front skirt extension (fills the gap between the princess seam and the end of the pleated edge on the outer part of the wrap)
- Carefully pin or machine baste the pieces together
- Mark the hem level with the floor at 22" from the center front waist
Extra credit will be given to anyone who chooses to make a final sample. Final samples will only be accepted if seam finishing (overlock or French seams), and facings are used.
Stay tuned for an evaluation sheet – I'm still putting one together.
