How to make a lace-up front sundress. Sewing tutorial and free PDF sewing pattern

How to sew a lace-up front sundress

Cutting out your pattern

• Print out the pdf pattern pieces. Bodice front, skirt and bodice back.
• ​Stick the pieces together or trace each piece onto a piece of brown paper (tracing is preferred).
• ​Mark out required size and cut out your pattern.
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Cutting your fabric

• Lay fabric out folded lengthwise so that the stretch goes widthwise.
• ​Lay skirt to fold trace using tailors chalk or pin to fabric, cut 2.
• ​Lay bodice back to fold trace using tailors chalk or pin to fabric, cut 1.
• Lay bodice front, flip over at fold marking. Cut 2 through the layers of fabric.
  

Preparation and binding

• Cut 2* binding strips 4.2cm wide, next to selvedge of fabric along the length by 2m
• Sew binding. If you don’t have a binding attachment make the strips wider app 5cm and sew folded in half into binding which you can pull through with a hairpin.
• Cut 8* 6cm pieces of your binding for the bodice, fold in half and attach to 1 section of bodice as in image above.
• Fit the 2nd bodice piece over the piece to which you’ve attached the binding, right sides together. Sew the bodice together at the neck edge, around the placard.
• Measure the straps
• Estimated measurements:
• Size 30-32 36cm, add 1cm per size up, but it’s best to drape the straps over your shoulders and set the measurement.
• Add 4cm which you can trim off on the final fitting. Slip the straps at the apex of the neck and arm edge. Stay stitch.
• Sew the arm extension of the bodice closed