V-Neck Crossover Maxi Tiered Flounce Dress

Name: V-Neck Crossover Maxi Tiered Flounce Dress
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 5586
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #5586

A women's sleeveless floor-length dress with a long close-fitting bodice that has a crossover V-neck front, joined at the hip to a skirt of five flounces. The neckline and armholes are bound with bias binding; an invisible zip closes the centre back seam. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: fabrics in natural or blended fibres.

Tech. Description

V-Neck Crossover Maxi Tiered Flounce Dress

When To Wear

Summer evenings, weddings and parties.
Holidays and warm-weather events, with sandals and a light shawl.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Close-fitting long bodice to a dropped waist seam at the hip, then tiered flounces to the floor.

Length: Floor length; each flounce hem overlocked, turned to the wrong side and topstitched.

Neckline: Crossover V-neck; the two fronts overlap and are caught in the side seams, so the wrap does not open. Neckline bound with bias binding folded in half.

Sleeves: Sleeveless, armholes bound with bias binding.

Front: Each front shaped with a waist dart and a bust dart; at the wrap edge the bust dart is laid as a soft pleat, its ends held by stitching 0.5 cm from the side edge.

Back: Centre back seam and waist darts.

Closure: Invisible zip in the centre back seam.

Skirt: Five flounces, each sewn into a ring. The third, fourth and fifth are basted together, gathered and stitched to a skirt lining; the first and second are basted to the top of the lining and the whole skirt is joined to the bodice.

Lining: Skirt lining carries the lower flounces; the bodice can also be lined.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. A crossover front with darts and a soft pleat, bias-bound edges, an invisible zip, and five flounces assembled on a skirt lining.

Fabric Recommendations

Fabrics in natural or blended fibres.

Additional Supplies

Lining fabric for the skirt
Invisible zip for the centre back seam
Bias binding

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:

Back – 2 pieces
Front – 2 pieces
First Skirt Flounce – 1 piece
Second Skirt Flounce – 1 piece
Third Skirt Flounce – 1 piece
Fourth Skirt Flounce – 1 piece
Fifth Skirt Flounce – 1 piece

From lining fabric:

Skirt Lining – 1 piece

Tip: The bodice of the dress can be finished with lining.

Sewing Instructions

Mark and stitch the waist darts on the Front and Back. Press the darts on the Front towards the center front, and on the Back towards the center back.
Mark and stitch the bust dart on the Front. Cut it open to its depth and overlock. At the wrap edge of the Front, lay the bust dart as a soft pleat. The dart ends can be secured with a line of stitching 0.5 cm from the side edge.
Overlock the center back edges. Stitch the center back seam up to the zipper notch. Press the center back seam open, pressing back the zipper opening allowances, and insert the zipper.
Stitch the shoulder seams of the dress, overlock, and press towards the back.
Press the bias binding in half lengthwise and bind the neckline and armholes. Fold under the ends of the binding at the back and secure by hand.
Stitch the side seams of the dress, matching the notches and forming the wrap. Overlock the side seams and press them towards the back.
Stitch each flounce and the Skirt Lining into a ring. Overlock the seams and press.
Baste the Third, Fourth and Fifth Skirt Flounces together along their upper edges. Sew a line of loose gathering stitches and gather.
Stitch the Third, Fourth and Fifth Skirt Flounces to the Skirt Lining. Overlock the seam and press upwards.
Baste the First and Second Skirt Flounces and the Skirt Lining together along the upper edge.
Stitch the bodice to the skirt. Overlock the seam and press upwards.
Overlock the lower edge of each flounce, fold it to the wrong side, press and topstitch.