Heyhey,
so the vote was a tie, between just showing how I change the pattern and doing that and also show how to change a simple dress pattern into something similar. Since I am nice today … :p I am doing both;)
How I changed up my pattern:
thats the pattern templates I copied out of the pattern sheet of the magazine
I made the centre back seam longer in a right angle to the waist-line
20 cm until the hip-line and then 20cm more, for s short skirt-part, then I drew lines in a right angle at both points
at the hip line go your (hip-width +4cm)/4
draw a line from the waist to that point and then make it longer to the hem-line
I also redrew the waistline a little
my new side-seam, I made the dart longer , I also added 1cm seam allowance all around, and 3cm hem-allowance
so the same again with the front part, the centre-front 20cm and 20 cm in a straight line
looks like this
also finish the other end of this dart
my new finished templates, 1.50 m of a 1.4m wide fabric is sufficient
If you’re starting with a simple dress pattern (I made this in miniature):
the front and back of a simple dress
draw a line at the hip and another line were you want your hem
then draw a line from the hip down to get the skirt a little flared
then draw another line above the chest… depending how much you want to show 😉
and draw straps (the little triangle is were the strap end will be appliqued)
cut the dress parts
and the strap-parts
put the strap parts at the shoulder-seams together to get one strap part
now start with the sleeves
draw 2 lines at the upper-sleeve and cut the sleeves into the 3 parts
the strip for the upper arm stays the same
the other 2 parts need to be divided by 2 straight lines
cut them and give it some room in between, that is the space that will be ruffled later, so if you want a lot of ruffles you need more cm in between the parts, if you only want a few just do like 1 cm between the parts
the finished templates
Cut the fabric
place the dress parts
and the sleeve cap and the other big sleeve part on the fabric and cut them
I did cut the strap and the upper sleeve strip out of the lighter fabric
Up next week: mark the darts on the fabric and sew them, also: invisible zipper in centre back. So stay tuned!
keep sewing and smiling
TailorFairy 