Today I started patterning for my third dress and its a shirt dress! As its a semi fitted style dress we had to trace around the dress blocks to get the correct shape
Making sure all the correct details are labelled
I decided I wanted to move my dart so I drew a line where I wanted my new dart to be
Using the slash and spread method I moved me dart creating a new one under the arm line
As its a shirt dress we needed to a add a button stand and a placket
Onto the collar, we followed a pattern from the pattern cutting book which was easy to follow. The first daft is drawn together like a rectangle
For the sleeve I decided I wanted to have a sweet heart styled sleeve, so I had to trace around the sleeve block and then make sure it fit into my pattern. It was a little big so I had to adapt it to fit
My sweet heart shaped sleeve drawn out
Final sleeve patterns
Final collar patterns
Here a faced the problem which was drawing them to close together as there wasn't enough room for me to add on my 1cm seam allowance
Finally final collar pattern
Final dress pattern with 1cm seam allowence
Now my task is choosing the material, I think I want to go for a more sophisticated look with this dress rather than making a statement.
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