Fitted Paneled Dress with Pleated Flounce

Name: Fitted Paneled Dress with Pleated Flounce
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 5855
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #5855

A women's fitted one-shoulder dress above the knee, cut in three panels front and back. A pleated and gathered flounce is set into the panel seams over the left shoulder and forms the only sleeve; the asymmetric upper edge is bound with self-fabric bias. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: dress fabrics in natural or blended fibres.

Tech. Description

Fitted Paneled Dress with Pleated Flounce

When To Wear

Summer evening parties, cocktails and birthday celebrations.
With heels or strappy sandals and a clutch.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Fitted, shaped by vertical panel seams from the upper edge to the hem on the front and back and by bust darts in the side front panels.

Length: Above the knee.

Neckline: One-shoulder: the upper edge runs diagonally from under the right arm to the single shoulder seam on the left. It is finished with a 4 cm self-fabric bias strip folded in half, stitched on and topstitched along the fold; ready-made bias binding can be used instead.

Sleeves: No sleeves; over the left shoulder a flounce with pleats folded towards its centre and gathered along the upper edge is set between the left side panels and the centre panels. Its lower edge is overlocked, turned and topstitched.

Closure: Invisible zip in the left side seam, from the top edge down to a notch.

Back: Centre back panel with a left and a right side back panel; no centre back seam.

Finishing: Hem overlocked, turned up and topstitched.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. An asymmetric panelled cut where the flounce is caught into the panel seams, a zip in the side seam and a bias-bound diagonal upper edge.

Fabric Recommendations

Dress fabrics in natural or blended fibres.

Additional Supplies

Invisible zip
Bias binding (optional, instead of a self-fabric bias strip)

Cutter's Must

All markings on the pattern pieces are applied to the right side of the fabric.

From main fabric:
Side Left Back – 1 piece
Center Back – 1 piece
Side Right Back – 1 piece
Side Left Front – 1 piece
Center Front – 1 piece
Side Right Front – 1 piece
Flounce – 1 piece
Bias strip 4 cm wide for binding the upper edge (cut to measure)

Sewing Instructions

Stitch the bust darts on the Side Left Front and Side Right Front. Press the darts upwards.
Fold the pleats on the Flounce, with the folds turned towards the center of the piece, and baste them at the upper edge. Sew a line of long, loose stitches along the upper edge of the Flounce and gather. Serge the lower edge of the flounce, press to the wrong side, and topstitch.
Stitch the Side Left Back to the Center Back, press the seam allowances towards the center piece and serge. Stitch the Flounce to the Side Left Back, press the seam allowances towards the Flounce and serge.
Stitch the Side Left Front to the Center Front, press the seam allowances towards the center piece and serge. Stitch the Flounce to the Side Left Front, press the seam allowances towards the Flounce and serge.
Stitch the shoulder seam, press seam allowances towards the back and serge.
In one continuous seam, stitch the Side Right Back to the Center Back and the Flounce, and the Side Right Front to the Center Front and the Flounce. Press seam allowances towards the respective center pieces and the flounce and serge.
Serge the left side edges of the back and front. Insert the invisible zipper from the upper edge to the notch. Fold back the lower end of the zipper and stitch the side edge from the notch downwards. Press the seam allowances open.
Cut a bias binding strip from the main fabric, equal to the length of the upper edge and 4 cm wide. Press it in half lengthwise, right side out, align with the upper edge and stitch. Turn the binding to the wrong side and topstitch along the fold.
Stitch the right side seam, press seam allowances towards the back and serge. Tip: You can also use ready-made bias binding for finishing the upper edge.
Serge the bottom edge of the garment, press to the wrong side, and topstitch.