I have had a question from one of my readers regarding a dress style.
The best way to develop a dress is by using a dress block, you would think that you could just place a skirt and a bodice together and that would be it – unfortunately its not as simple as that. There are a few adjustments you need to make to join a skirt to a bodice to get a good fit, and you need a little pattern cutting knowledge for that. I plan to do a post on just the subject very soon.
But for now, lets suppose you are in a rush and you have a bodice block and a skirt block, my best advice would be to first of all follow my post on lengthening the bodice below the hip line and that will give you a basic dress block, suitable for some, but not all styles.
Lets take the example above, this is the style my reader wants and she only has a bodice block, but now she has followed the blog post and created a basic dress from the bodice.
The style lines can be followed through to the back dress and an identical quantity of fullness should be added to the back skirt – remember to cut the skirt on the bias grain with a seam at the center front.
I hope this helps and if anyone else has any pattern cutting puzzles then please let me know.
Happy pattern making
Nicola x
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This is officially the best blog ever! I asked Nicola about this dress only this morning, and already she has a blog post done, which has solved all my problems. Nicola, you’re my hero!
You are most welcome, its what I love doing. Always happy to help.