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Patternmaking Guide: Trapeze Dresses

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Patternmaking Guide: Trapeze Dresses

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This booklet will teach you how to draft trapeze dress patterns based on the dartless bodice block, both with, and without sleeves. This includes a sleeveless handkerchief-hem dress, a 60’s-style trapeze dress with dropped shoulders, a short-sleeved trapeze dress with a box-pleat at the front, and a dress with a yoke and bell sleeves. Naturally, you can choose to make both sleeved dresses without sleeves and swap neckline types. 

There are also instructions included that demonstrate how to add a patch pocket and a side seam pocket.

To make these dresses, you can use many different fabrics. For example, cotton, silk, linen, viscose, lightweight wool, or even jersey.

This Patternmaking Guide is classified "Easy" in difficulty and will be accompanied by the Dartless Bodice Block guide.

Who is this product is for?

For anyone who has already sewn a few garments using commercial patterns and is now interested in learning how to draft their own unique patterns.


Who isn’t this product for?

Although the pattern making instructions provided are very detailed, complete-beginner sewers may find drafting these patterns quite challenging. Even a small understanding of garment construction will be extremely helpful. Also, these e-guides do not include instructions on how to sew the garments, so this might become a problem.


What is included in the e-guide order?

Each guide comes with the corresponding basic pattern instructions. So, for example, the ruffle skirts guide is accompanied by the basic skirt guide. This way you’ll be able to draft the basic skirt block that is needed for making the ruffle skirt patterns. The basic pattern guides also include additional patternmaking instructions related to the subject.

Notice, that none of the patternmaking guides include the actual patterns. Instead, there are step-by-step instructions on how you can draft the pattern yourself using your measurements. The instructions consist of pictures and text and are limited to patternmaking only, so there are no sewing instructions. However, there is a Facebook group where I  provide support if you need help with this, and I've included some extra resources on a separate PDF that you might find helpful.

You will get two versions of each PDF, metric and imperial; I know how difficult it can be to draft patterns and trying to convert measurements at the same time!


Copyright

The patternmaking guides are for your personal use only, please do not publish or share the files or parts of them anywhere. Also, the garment designs provided are for personal use only, however, if you create your own pattern designs with the help of the instructions, this rule no longer applies to the resulting garments.


Return Policy

Due to the nature of digital goods, and the fact that you receive immediate access to the files, I cannot offer refunds or exchanges on the e-guides. So, please review the product information carefully before purchasing.

However, if there is a fault with the files or you get the incorrect items, do request a replacement.

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You'll get the Trapeze Dresses Guide and the Dartless Bodice Block Guide pdf, both in two versions, metric and imperial. There's also a pdf with planning sheets for each dress..

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