Button Front Dress With Gathered Skirt

Name: Button Front Dress With Gathered Skirt
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 2107
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #2107

A women's below-the-knee dress with a fitted bodice, short set-in sleeves and a full skirt gathered onto the bodice. The skirt front opens with a buttoned placket of six buttons; the neckline is finished with bias binding turned to the inside. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: dress fabrics from natural or blended fibres.

Tech. Description

Button Front Dress With Gathered Skirt

When To Wear

In summer, as an everyday dress with sandals or trainers.
With a cardigan or denim jacket in spring and early autumn.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Close bodice with no darts, joined to a wide gathered skirt that flares to the hem.

Length: Below the knee.

Neckline: Round. Finished with a 4 cm bias strip folded in half, stitched to the edge, turned to the wrong side and topstitched along the fold.

Sleeves: Short, one-piece, set into the armhole; hems turned twice by 1 cm.

Front: Upper front cut in one piece on the fold. Lower front in two pieces with separately cut plackets sewn on, folded to the wrong side and topstitched. The right front laps over the left, with buttonholes on the right and buttons on the left; the plackets are held together at the top in the bodice seam.

Back: Centre back seam through the bodice and skirt; no back opening.

Skirt: Front and back gathered along the top edge and joined to the bodice; seam allowances pressed up.

Finishing: Seams serged; dress hem turned twice by 1 cm and topstitched.

Level Of Difficulty

Beginner. Gathering, a folded button placket, buttonholes, a bias-bound neckline and set-in sleeves; no zipper, darts or collar.

Fabric Recommendations

Dress fabrics from natural or blended fibres.

Additional Supplies

6 buttons
Bias binding, 4 cm wide (or cut from the dress fabric), neckline length plus 6 cm

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:
- Upper back - 2 pieces
- Upper front - 1 piece with fold
- Lower back – 2 pieces
- Lower front – 2 pieces
- Placket — 2 pieces
- Sleeve – 2 pieces

Sewing Instructions

Stitch the plackets to the lower front pieces, fold them to the wrong side and press. Fold under the raw edge of the inner side of the placket and topstitch. On the right front, make buttonholes. Place the right front over the left and secure along the upper edges of the plackets.
Along the upper edges of the lower back and front parts, stitch with loosened upper thread and gather. Stitch the upper and lower parts together. Press seam allowances upwards and overlock. Stitch the center back seam. Overlock seam allowances and press to the left side.
Stitch side and shoulder seams, press seam allowances towards the back and overlock.
Cut (if not ready-made) a bias binding 4 cm wide and a length equal to the neckline length + 6 cm. Fold the bias binding in half lengthwise, right side out, and press. Place the binding along the neckline edge, right sides together, and stitch. Fold the binding to the wrong side, clip seam allowances, and topstitch along the fold to the main piece. Press the seam.
Stitch sleeve seams, press towards the back and overlock. Set sleeves into armholes, press seam allowances and overlock.
Fold the bottom of the garment and sleeves twice to the wrong side by 1 cm and topstitch.
Sew buttons to the left front.