She’s the feeling of sipping a sweet, iced tea on a suntrap balcony bottled up and infused into a dress!
THE SOFIA DRESS
PACK INCLUDES
■ Pattern sheet x 2
■ Instruction sheet
YOU WILL NEED
■ Fabric:
Sizes 6-16: 4.1mx150cm Sizes 18-26: 4.4.mx150cm Sizes 28-32: 5.3mx150cm
■ Elastic: 1cm wide x your waist measurement
■ Matching thread
■ Basic sewing kit
NOTES
■ We recommend making a toile of the bodice if you want to use a woven fabric as we can’t guarantee a great fit.
■ We recommend using a fabric that is 150cm wide because of the width of the pattern pieces – you may be able to use narrower fabric for sizes 6-16, but you may need to reduce the amount of flare in the skirt.
■ Please allow more fabric if you would like to pattern match or if your fabric has a directional print.
■ Hem frill: the frill is a very long piece, which is why the grain line on the pattern piece is parallel to the selvedge of the fabric. If you have a print and you want to make sure the print direction is the same on the dress and on the frill, you can fold the hem frill pattern in half and lay it with the short sides parallel to the selvedge. Then cut four pieces instead of two.
FABRIC RECOMMENDATIONS
■ Light- to medium-weight fabrics with plenty of drape and movement such as viscose, Tencel, or crêpe.
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© Printed in the UK for Simply Sewing. Design by Alexandra Bruce and Caroline Akselson.
Supplied by Our Media Ltd (an Immediate Group Company), Bristol, BS1 4ST. For individual, private use only and not for commercial or manufacturing purposes. Not for resale.
STITCHING TERMS
RS/WS: Right side/wrong side of the fabric.
Staystitch: Stitching in areas prone to stretching such as necklines to hold the fabric in shape while it is being worked on.
Topstitch: Stitching usually from the right side of the garment to hold seam allowances in place or can be used for decorative purposes.
Toile: A test garment, often made from calico or muslin to check the fit or test a pattern before the real fabric is used. Known as a muslin in the US.
Gathering: Gathering is done to add volume, for example in a sleeve head or in a ruffle. It can be decorative or functional. To gather you stitch two lines of gathering stitches (stitch length 5) – one on top of the pattern line and one within the seam allowance. Don’t backstitch and long thread tails.
Easing: Ease is a certain allowance built into a pattern piece that will allow a bit more space – one pattern piece will be bigger than the one it connects to, and you ‘eas
