Maxi Dress

Remake of Bebe's Maxi Dress

Here is a dress that one of my coworkers bought and loved it so much that she wanted another on in another fabric.

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I started out by borrowing the dress she bought. I traced it onto dotted pattern paper meaning I trace around the actual dress and where the seams met. I took down key measurements for example, how long each section was like the bust line and waistline and seams, stretched and relaxed. I recorded all the design lines, trims and notions used and where they are located. In this case there were 3 rows of elastic.


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Then I went on to working perfecting the patterns using the appropriate rulers and the measurements I recorded earlier to create straight lines. The patterns take about a full day or two to complete and mark.
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Once the pattern is done then you cut it out in the fabric you like. A little note, knit fabrics are much harder to cut and sew than woven. I usually sandwich knit fabric between 2 sheets of paper so the fabric doesn't move when cutting.


After the cutting is done then I have to go on to the sewing. This garment had a lot of 3 seams of shirring (gathering) and elastic.

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First I had to put two shirring stitches to get as even as a gathering as I could.

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Then I sewed the seams together and put elastic using my interlock machine.

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This is the end result.



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