How to sew a Lace up front sundress

Cutting out your pattern

Print out the pdf pattern pieces. Bodice front, skirt and bodice back.
Stick the pieces together or trace each piece onto a piece of brown paper (tracing is preferred).
Mark out required size and cut out your pattern.

Lay fabric out folded lengthwise so that the stretch goes widthwise.
Lay skirt to fold trace using tailors chalk or pin to fabric, cut 2.
Lay bodice back to fold trace using tailors chalk or pin to fabric, cut 1.
Lay bodice front, flip over at fold marking. Cut 2 through the layers of fabric.

Cut 2* binding strips 4.2cm wide, next to selvedge of fabric along the length by 2m
Sew binding. If you don’t have a binding attachment make the strips wider app 5cm and sew folded in half into binding which you can pull through with a hairpin.
Cut 8* 6cm pieces of your binding for the bodice, fold in half and attach to 1 section of bodice as in image above.
Fit the 2nd bodice piece over the piece to which you’ve attached the binding, right sides together. Sew the bodice together at the neck edge, around the placard.
Measure the straps
Estimated measurements:
Size 30-32 36cm, add 1cm per size up, but it’s best to drape the straps over your shoulders and set the measurement.
Add 4cm which you can trim off on the final fitting. Slip the straps at the apex of the neck and arm edge. Stay stitch.
Sew the arm extension of the bodice closed.

Get the pattern