Fall Dresses -- Project 1

In order to sew this dress, you will need to use knit fabric.  It has to be stretchy, which means no zipper.  I came across one of Michael Kors' dresses and wanted to figure out how to make it very badly.  One day when I was browsing through Pinterest, I saw a pin showing how to make that dress, but it was in Russian.  Here is the original post.  http://nelyager.ru/post227911972/  I kind of figured out how to do the front part from the post and then make my own pattern.  Here is a close look of the front part.

If you really don't want to take the trouble making a bodice pattern. I have another blog showing how make sizes, 12, 8 and 4 pattern without bodice pattern.  http://patterntopia.blogspot.com/2015/08/fall-dresses-project-1.html

First, we need to make a dress pattern and do some changes later.  Here is a dress pattern.

You should have a complete front pattern like this.

From here, we cut the pattern into 4 pieces by cutting along the a, b, c, and d cut lines.  When we sew them back, we sew along the a, b, c, d lines too.  Each of the bottom 3 pieces needed to be cut into 6 equal parts.  Do not cut them all the way, leave about 2 mm front the edge.  Let them barely hang to each other.  After cutting them up, we need to re-position them.  This is the top and the right pieces.

You have to have the right measurement in order to sew them back exactly.  This is the left and bottom part.

I made a mini version to show you how to put them together.

First, take the bottom piece and sew the line "a" together and make sure you don't sew all the way.  You should leave about 2 cm.

 I should look like this.

Then, thread the top part through the hole we left out.  

Here is a look of the actual front piece before it is all sew up.

Finally, sew up the rest of the b,c, and d. lines.  Now you have a completed front piece. 

This front piece is the only challenging part.  The rest is just basic sewing.

Have fun!