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Welcome to Day 3 of the Oliver+S Fairy Tale Dress sew along!
If you do not have your pattern yet you can purchase it from the shop. It is in PDF format so you can print today and be ready to start. You can also purchase a kit as well from the shop. It has everything you need, other than thread, to make a gorgeous dress.
Fairy Tale Dress Kit
1. Grab your collar pieces for either view A or B. Using a hot iron, apply your interfacing pieces to the wrong side of two collar pieces only. (I have both views show here.)
19. Carefully press the armband in a curved shape to mimic the shape of the arm hole opening (the raw edge is facing my iron). This step it is easy to stretch it out as well so take your time so as not to stretch it.
42. Here is the finished sleeve, Oh how I love these sleeves! They are worth all the work. Now repeat with your second sleeve and admire how great your dress is looking!!
Before you begin today's lesson please read all of the pattern
directions first. In today's lesson we will be sewing the collar, attaching the bodice lining to the main bodice, sewing the sleeve or arm
binding (depending on which view you are making), and sewing the skirt
hem. You can machine stitch your hem and arm binding but I will show
you how to hand stitch them.
1. Grab your collar pieces for either view A or B. Using a hot iron, apply your interfacing pieces to the wrong side of two collar pieces only. (I have both views show here.)
2. Take your other two collar pieces and place them on top of the interfaced collar
pieces with the right sides together. Pin around the collar, leaving
the top (or the neck side) unpinned.
3. Stitch around the collar where we just pinned, leaving the the
top of the collar un-sewn. Trim the seam allowance and clip the
corners. This allows for sharper points and smoother edges when
turned. The collar piece on the left is before trimming and the one on
the right is the trimmed collar piece.
4. Turn and finger press. Be sure to push the corners out well. This will insure a nice and evenly pressed collar. Then, press with a hot iron.
5. Baste the top of the collar (neck side) to hold the two collar pieces
together. Do this with both views.
6. Take your dress and unzip it. Then, turn it inside out. Take your collar pieces and match them up to the
center front of the dress at the center notch mark. Pin in place.
Match the notches in the center of the collar up to the shoulder seams
and pin. Continue pinning the collar in place. (Note that
the collar will stop before the back edge. Also be sure that the back
seam allowance is unfolded.)
7. Baste collar in place leaving the dress inside out for easier stitching.
8. Take your bodice lining and place it with the right side of the main
bodice and lining bodice together, matching shoulder seams and
notches. Pin in place.
Keep the main bodice back seam allowance unfolded and keep the lining
bodice back seam allowance folded. The lining bodice seam will be sewn
while folded in place. Stitch around with a ½" seam.
9. Also note that the collar will be sticking out just beyond the lining of the dress.
10. To finish the back edge, take your main bodice (the edge that has the
zipper on it) and fold it over onto the back lining. See the next two
photos below of this step. Pin in place.
11. You will sew the back folded edge in place with a ½" seam allowance. This will make for a nicely turned edge where the top back
of the dress opens.
12. Trim the seam down and clip into curves.
13. With the lining of the bodice pulled back, press the seam towards the bodice lining all the way around.
14. To help keep the dress lining from rolling forward while the dress is
worn we will be under stitching the seam to the bodice lining. I stitch
mine with a 1/16" seam as close to the back edges as I can and all the way around. The most important thing is to be sure to sew the seam to
the lining.
15. Turn the lining inside the bodice and press well. Your dress is starting to look impressive already!
16. Take you bodice, and working on the right side now, match the
bodice main to the bodice lining at the arm holes. Pin in place and
baste together with a 3/8" seam.
17. I always stitch mine with the right side facing out and by placing the
lining side up under my presser foot. This also works well for sewing
tiny baby dress sleeves.
For View A Skip Down to Step 29.
18. View B - Take your arm bias band and sew the two short ends together. Then, fold the wrong
sides together lengthwise and press. Be careful not to stretch this
part out as it is cut along the bias. It can be very easy to stretch.
19. Carefully press the armband in a curved shape to mimic the shape of the arm hole opening (the raw edge is facing my iron). This step it is easy to stretch it out as well so take your time so as not to stretch it.
20. Take your bodice and trim the 3/8" seam you just basted down to a ¼" seam.
21. Take your arm bias band piece and match up the top notch to the to
shoulder seam and the bottom seam to the bodice
side seam. Pin in place. Working slowly, continue pinning
the rest of the bias band in place.
22. Stitch in place with a ¼" seam. One again, I leave the dress right
side out and stitch from the lining side to make for easier stitching.
23. Trim you seam down to 1/8" all the way around.
24. Now, press the arm bias band out with the seam facing the arm bias band.
25. We are going to under stitch the arm bias band just like that of the
bodice lining. I stitch mine with an 1/16" seam. Stitch the seam to the arm
bias band.
26. Press the arm bias band to the inside of the dress, still being careful
not to stretch the band. Pin in place all the way around.
27. Now, for this part you can machine stitch the arm band in place, but I
prefer hand stitching mine. I use a small ladder stitch. When,
sewing this part be sure not to let the needle go through both sides of
the dress, but rather only put the needle and thread through the lining
layer.
28. This is the outside of the arm opening when the hand sewing is finished. No visible stitching! Repeat with second arm opening.
For View B Skip Down to Step 43.
29. View A - Take
your Sleeve lining piece that corresponds with the main sleeve
(Remember we cut these with mirrored images, one for the left sleeve and
one for the right sleeve) and place them together with right sides facing. Pin along the bottom of the sleeve. Make sure your front and
back sleeve notches are matched up for this part. Stitch the bottom
only.
30. Trim the seam allowance down. I trim mine to a 1/8".
31. Press the the seam towards the lining of your sleeve. My lining is the red dotted fabric.
32. Just as we under stitched the bodice lining, we will under stitch the
sleeve lining as well. Stitch the sleeve lining all the way across.
33. Press your sleeve with the wrong sides facing together, while
slightly rolling the sleeve lining towards the back. This way the sleeve
lining will not be visible from the right side of the sleeve.
34. Now, we will fold the tulip cap sleeve together. Take your sleeve and
place it right side down. Mine has the front side of the sleeve
to the left (one notch side) and the back side of the sleeve to the
right. (the two notch side). Take the front of the sleeve, or the one
that has the one notch mark, and fold it towards the center with the
notch at the top rounded part in the center.
35. Take the back part of the sleeve (or the side with two notches) and
fold it over with the notch at the top of the rounded part matching the
notch at the front of the sleeve. Pin in place.
36. Pin the rest of the sleeve that is folded together.
37. Sew two rows of gathering stitches between the dots you transferred from the pattern.
38. Place the sleeve into the corresponding arm opening with the right side
of the sleeve facing the right side of the bodice. Match the top sleeve
notch to the shoulder seam and match the rest of the notches on the
sleeve to that of the arm opening. Gather stitches evenly. Then, pin in
place. Finally, sew the sleeve in place.
39. I find it easiest to sew the sleeve in place by placing the sleeve side
under my presser foot and the bodice lining facing the outside. Finish
your seams and press the seam towards the sleeve.
40. With the sleeve in hand, take the top tulip sleeve "petal" only
(the very next photo below) and pull up towards the dress leaving the
second tulip "petal" down. (the second photo below)
41. Just as we under stitched the bodice lining, we will under stitch the
sleeve seam to the under tulip "petal" sleeve only. Stitch only the top
part of the under sleeve with a 1/16" seam and only where the stitching
will not be visible when the top sleeve is folded back down.
42. Here is the finished sleeve, Oh how I love these sleeves! They are worth all the work. Now repeat with your second sleeve and admire how great your dress is looking!!
43. For both views take the main skirt and press it under 2". Then press it under another 2". Pin the hem in place as you go.
You can machine stitch your skirt, but as I said before, I prefer hand
stitching mine. If you do decide to hand stitch, find a comfy place on
the couch and a good movie to watch because it will take some time to sew. But, it is completely worth it. The hand stitching is my favorite part of
this dress to be honest. It puts so much love into it.
44. Hand stitching: Be sure to use a thread color that matches your fabric very well for
this part. I use a ladder like stitch to sew my hems. {A Blind Hem
Stitch is the real name I think.} We are only going to make tiny
stitches on the front side of the skirt. First, insert your needle only
through the hem itself. Then, put the needle through only 2 strand 's of fabric. This will keep your stitches nearly invisible on the front side.
45. Take your needle and put it through the fold of the hem only. Put it
through ½" of your hem fold and bring the needle back out. Now,
repeat putting your needle through only two strands of the fabric's
thread and pull the needle through. Pull the thread taught. Repeat all
the way around until your hem is all sewn.
This is what the front side of your hem will look like when it's all
sewn. Pretty impressive, your friends will think! Well worth all the time
it takes to sew it.
That's it for today. Happy sewing and see you tomorrow for our final lesson, Day Four.
Sharon
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Happy Sewing,
Danielle Storm
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