Lace Bust Babydoll Chemise with Ruffles

Name: Lace Bust Babydoll Chemise with Ruffles
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 5783
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #5783

A short women's babydoll chemise with guipure lace cups, a front that opens from under the bust, and gathered flounces along the front edges and the hem. It hangs from ready-made straps and has narrow elastic along the top edge. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: silk fabrics of natural or blended fibres for the main body; stretch guipure with a scalloped edge for the cups.

Tech. Description

Lace Bust Babydoll Chemise with Ruffles

When To Wear

As a nightgown or lingerie piece for the bedroom.
In warm weather, as light sleepwear.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Fitted at the bust, falling loosely from an underbust seam.

Length: Short, with a 6 cm gathered flounce at the hem.

Neckline: V-shaped between the lace cups; the guipure scallops form the edge at the centre front, with no seam allowance there.

Front: Guipure upper front shaped with darts, joined to side front panels and to the lower front pieces. The lower fronts part below the bust and are edged with a gathered flounce; a ribbon tie sits at the centre front.

Back: A straight upper back band seamed to the lower back, finished with a gathered flounce at the hem.

Finishing: Flounces finished with a rolled hem on the outer edge. The top edge is turned to the wrong side over 0.5 cm elastic, cut 10% shorter than the edge and zigzagged in place. Ready-made straps and a ribbon are sewn on at the end.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Darts in stretch guipure, gathered flounces with rolled hems, and elastic applied to the top edge with a zigzag stitch.

Fabric Recommendations

Silk fabrics of natural or blended fibres for the main body; stretch guipure with a scalloped edge for the cups.

Additional Supplies

Elastic, 0.5 cm wide
Decorative ribbon
Ready-made straps

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:

Back upper – 1 piece
Back lower – 1 piece
Front side – 2 pieces
Front lower – 2 pieces

From guipure:

Front upper – 2 pieces

Tip: Cut pieces from elastic fabrics are stitched with a special elastic or narrow zigzag stitch. When serging, trim seam allowances to 0.6 – 0.8 cm.

Sewing Instructions

Mark and stitch darts on the upper front piece. Serge, simultaneously trimming the dart depths.
Stitch the front side to the upper front, serge the seam allowances.
Cut a front flounce from the main fabric, 6 cm wide and the length indicated on the back pattern. Cut it in half, serge one long side with a rolled hem, along the other side lay a machine stitch with loosely tensioned stitches. Gather the flounce to the length of the front edge of the lower front, stitch the flounce to the garment, serge the seam allowances.
Stitch the lower front to the upper, serge the seam allowances.
Stitch the upper back to the lower, serge the seam allowances.
Cut a back flounce from the main fabric, 6 cm wide and the length indicated on the back pattern. Serge one long side with a rolled hem, along the other side lay a machine stitch with loosely tensioned stitches. Gather the flounce to the length of the lower edge of the back, stitch the flounce to the garment, serge the seam allowances.
Stitch and serge the side edges.
Serge the upper edge of the back and front, press to the wrong side, place elastic trim strip underneath, stretching slightly, and topstitch with a zigzag stitch. The trim strip should be 10% shorter than the edge.
Sew on the finished straps. Sew on the ribbon.