Description
A lightweight dress is the perfect basic for a summer holiday. A simple, clean silhouette and small, added detail make this dress suitable for almost any occasion. Stitching it is straightforward, as the dress is unlined and requires only little finishing.
FABRIC
- Main: 2 1/4 yd cotton fabric, 45″
- Accent: 3/4 yd contrasting fabric for belt and bias band/piping
- Interfacing: 2 yd lightweight woven fusible interfacing, 20″
OTHER SUPPLIES
- Templates:
- Top Front (A)
- Top Back (B)
- Top Back Interfacing (C)
- Side Back Interfacing (D)
- Skirt Front (E)
- One Skirt Back (F)
- Button Band (G)
- Front Neck Facing (H)
- Back Neck Facing (I)
- Front Armhole Facing (J)
- Back Armhole Facing (K)
- One Invisible zipper, 12″ long
- Seven buttons, 1/2″ diameter
- Matching thread
- Tailor’s chalk or fabric-safe marker
- Embroidery thread/embroidery design for your machine. Sample uses machine embroidery by urbanthreads.com (Mendhika Sunshine Medallion), which is
available for machine and hand embroidery. - Optional: Invisible zipper foot
NOTES
- All seam allowances are 5/8″ unless otherwise noted.
- Press seams after every step. Pressing is mandatory.
- Pretreat the fabrics as the finished garment will be cleaned (wash, dry, and iron or dry clean) to avoid shrinkage after the garment is sewn.
- Midweight cottons work best for this dress.
- You might want to consider adding a lining if you use lighter/sheer fabrics.
- Allow extra fabric to match plaids.
- Pin pattern pieces to fabrics as shown in the cutting layout, transferring all pattern markings to the fabrics.
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