What is a balloon Dress? (In a nut shell) The balloon dress or balloon skirt is two garment in one, first you have a straight skirt and next you have a gather skirt, your straight skirt will be about one or two inches shorter than your gather skirt, you gather the bottom and top of [...]

1. Measure directly up from the dart point the amount you wish to lengthen the dart. Mark the new dart point. 2. Draw new dart legs starting at the ends of the original darts and ending at the raised dart point The broken lines in diagram shown represent the original darts; the solid lines, the [...]

HOW TO SHIFT THE DART CONTROL FOR GATHERS, SHIRRING, OR SMOCKING Waistline Fullness (Fig. 24) 1.On the cut-out bodice-front sloper with the cut-out dart, locate the outside limits of the waistline fullness. Mark the points A and B (Fig. 24a). 2 Draw slash lines from A and B to the dart point. Draw several additional [...]

The French underarm dart is a favorite for Manny reasons. The direction of the dart line suggests the lift one associates with a high youthful figure 1.Trace the bodice-front sloper. 2. Cut out the tracing and the dart. (You may want to make a batch of these cut-out bodices to keep handy for the following [...]

To put this dress together please follow the step by step instruction And cutting diagram Three links that will help with drafting instruction dress-bodice-foundation slopers/draft-fitted-bodice draft-dress-sleeve-juniors-misses-women 1.    Join front and back shoulder seam together 2.    Join neck and back facing together 3.    Attach joint facing to front and back 4.    Trim and base facing in [...]

MEASUREMENTS 1.Front shoulder height measurements 2.Back shoulder height measurements 3.Center Back 4.Center front 5.Bust 6.Waist 7.Shoulder length 8.Across back 9.Width across chest 10.Width across shoulders 11.Neck -(optional) Back Bodice Instructions The back bodice instructions is similar to the front bodice instructions. A-B back shoulder height B-C Center back length. A-D Half across shoulder measurement D-E [...]

MEASUREMENTS 1.Front shoulder height measurements     2.Back shoulder height measurements 3.Center Back 4.Center front 5.front Bust 6.Waist 7.Shoulder length 8.Across back 9.Width across chest 10.Width across shoulders 11.Neck -(optional) Front bodice instructions To cut the front bodice, determine how much fabric to fold for the front by finding (I) front Shoulder height measurement. & (2) front [...]

Raglan Sleeve with Dress Bodice HOW TO DRAFT PATTERN The drafts on this page were developed by using the Junior Petite [Size 7] or the team’s [Size 12] Dress Bodice Foundation. Dress Bodice 1) Trace Dress Bodice Front and Back; then shift shoulder seam slightly forward by cutting off 1/2″ from front at shoulder, and [...]

style 3 featuring fitted short jacket ¾ length sleeve jacket and sleeve in one roll fitted collar 1) Using the hip-length dress foundation as in style 1, trace front and back to waistline only; then extend the front waist dart up to level of the side dart as indicated. Lower neckline 1” at center front, [...]

bodice front 3 waist darts 1) trace the front foundation; then square a line across at top of dart. for the 3 darts, first trace part of the first dart, from a to a-1. 2) mark position for the top of the 3 darts 1” apart between a, b and c. make the space at [...]