striped classic tee midi dress sewing tutorial

My older sister once had a roommate who used to mutter to everyone virtually her hourglass figure, and how hard it was to find clothes that fit because her waist was merely so pocket-sized in comparison to her hips and bust. Well . . . I don't have that problem. The older I become the more my waist only kind of disappears – maybe it's gone to the same place all those missing sock matches go. Anyway, I don't want to do anything crazy to get my waist back, like exercising or giving up ice cream (sky forbid), so I decided to try to faux it instead past changing upwardly the direction of the stripes on my new tee shirt clothes.

You're amazed, I know. Look at that hourglass figure!

No? Ok, maybe non quite a magical transformation, only still a kinda cute dress, right? Information technology feels a lilliputian retro to me so I wore it with the dark ruby lipstick that I bought and can't decide whether I'm keeping or not. I tried to layer it on a fiddling lighter this time because it feels so dark to me. Thoughts?

Anyhoo, near the dress. I used my Classic Tee design to make a midi length dress (just like I did with this one), but I sliced it upward a flake so I could go stripes going different ways – side to side on the skirt, up and down on the back bodice, and both side to side AND upwards and downward on the front end bodice. That'south the part that'due south supposed to make me expect magically skinny, if you couldn't tell 😉

You lot're going to need two yards of knit (stretchy) fabric for this apparel, although if you're conscientious you might be able to get away with 1.five yards. Y'all want to utilise cloth that has iv-style stretch for this dress. Make certain yous launder and dry the cloth before you begin. You lot'll also need my Archetype Tee pattern, which yous tin can download by clicking here. Impress out the pattern at 100% or full size, and ensure the grayness test squares measure exactly i inch. Butt the pages together and tape them without overlapping. It looks similar this:

If yous haven't fabricated this tee shirt before, y'all may desire to sew together one upwards before trying this dress. Refer to the Classic Tee postal service for full instructions.

To make this apparel, I sliced up the bodice design. First, I cut all the mode across the bodice on the arrowed line under the word "stretch". This is about at the natural waist. And so I used the top half of the pattern to cut out one bodice piece with the stripes going up and down, for the back bodice.

Then I sliced the pattern up again, this time for the front bodice, as shown below.

I cut the heart portion of the design with stripes going side to side (adding i/2 an inch seam allowance along the border where I sliced the pattern). Then I cut the sides of the pattern with the stripes going upward and down (over again adding 1/2 inch seam allowance along the edge where the blueprint was sliced). So the bodice pieces wait similar this:

Then I used the bottom half of the bodice pattern to cutting two brim pieces, as shown beneath. I angled the side seam out as I cut. The skirt pieces are about 26 inches long on the sides, and 28 inches long at the fold.

Finally, I cutting brusk sleeves every bit shown on the pattern.

To begin, I pieced the front bodice back together, as shown below.

In one case the front bodice is sewn together, information technology looks like this:

Then I sewed up the top of the dress, following the instructions in the Classic Tee post. That gave me the acme of my dress:

Then I sewed the ii brim pieces together forth the side seams, so I had a acme and a brim:

I turned the skirt inside out and slid the superlative inside it, matched upwards the waistline of both pieces, so pinned and sewed. I used a 1 inch seam allowance sewing the pinnacle and skirt together. You also demand to use a stitch that will have some stretch, similar a stretch stitch or a narrow zigzag. I actually used a direct sew together, just stretched the fabric a bit as I sewed.

Once the top and brim are sewn together, plough the entire clothes within out and printing the seam allowance up. Then sew together the seam allowance to the top of the dress, but over 1/2 an inch from the first seam, to create a casing for rubberband. Be sure to exit a 2 inch opening along this seam then you'll be able to thread elastic through the casing.

Then you lot can thread 1/2 inch elastic through the casing to gather in the waistline. Pull the elastic as tight as is comfortable, then stitch the rubberband to itself, and and then stitch the opening you left closed. At this point the bones structure of the dress is finished.

Now y'all but need to hem the sleeves and bottom of the dress and finish the neckline. Instead of my usual method of adding a neckbinding, I merely turned the neckline under about ane/2 an inch and pressed and pinned. Then I layered some pretty elastic over the neckline and sewed information technology on using a double needle, gently stretching the elastic as I sewed.

Finally, I fabricated a small bow with white ribbon and sewed it at the waist.

And washed! This dress took a little more work than near things I sew, but hey, it's adept to non be such a lazy sewist now and again, right?

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