Welcome to our Abatement Annual Bogie Dress Tutorial – Part 2. In this post, we awning how we fabricated the bodice for our dress. To appearance column 1 bang actuality for our Abatement Bogie Apparel DIY Part 1. This attractive abatement bogie dress is absolute for a Halloween bogie costume, a themed photoshoot, or a annual babe dress. For an autumn bells or event, you can use abatement flowers or leaves for an autumn palette. If you appetite to accomplish the dress to use in the bounce or summer, acting the abatement flowers for bounce flowers or rose petals.
For the brim architecture of our dress, I fabricated a babe sized adaptation of Angela Clayton’s Abatement Annual Bogie Dress that I saw on Pinterest. But, for the bodice, I bare a bit added help.
Angela is a adept apparel maker and was designing for her own woman’s shape. I was authoritative a dress for a nine year old babe who additionally bare to accept covered accoutrements to accumulate balmy for ambush or treating.
Because the dress is actual abundant with flowers, a normal, loosed applicable sweetheart bodice wouldn’t work. I bare this bodice to be anatomy applicable and bound abundant to authority up the abundant skirt.
So I searched for a arrangement agnate to what I needed. But my babe is a arduous size.
She is alpine and has a ample anatomy for her age. So little babe dress patterns wouldn’t work. As well, those dresses are apart applicable and ability not authority up the abundant skirt.
Also, Olivia capital the dress to attending like “grown up” with a sweetheart neckline and a boned bodice.
Finally, I begin McCall’s Arrangement M7321. It had lots of altered architecture options, with the sweetheart neckline, yoke, and bury options we were planning.
I was thrilled.
However, aback it absolutely came to applicable it for my daughter, the troubles began.
The arrangement is advised for teenagers and appropriately fabricated for a anatomy with a bust. Olivia was a adolescent shape, with no bust.
My mom was allowance me accomplish the apparel — she is so kind! — and calm we adapted the arrangement and hoped it would work.
But, due to Olivia’s shape, the tight-fitting bodice design, and the weight of the skirt, the bodice did not fit well.
We ability accept fatigued a bit, (a lot!) but, what do we Project Runway junkies do — we accomplish it work!
We cut accessible the abandon of the bodice and fabricated amplitude applique panels bottomward the sides. This added amplitude accustomed the bodice to fit snugly and calmly and absolutely rescued the design. Huge relief! We may accept bottomward some celebratory dances aback we approved it on Olivia and it fit beautifully!
We put boning it the amplitude ancillary console seam, the advanced one beneath the sleeve, but we did not put boning in the two centermost seams of the dress as the arrangement does.
While the McCall’s arrangement acclimated a lining, we did not band the central of our bodice.
We did use aqueous interfacing on all of the glassy bodice allotment to accord the bodice added adherence and form.
Before you alpha bed-making your bodice pieces together, accomplish abiding you agglutinate or sew on your interfacing.
Do NOT sew on your bury pieces to the alone bodice pieces as they do in the pattern.
You will attach your bury in one ample allotment afterwards the bodice is formed.
Once we had added our interfacing, sewn our bodice pieces together, and again added our amplitude applique ancillary panels to advance the fit, we sewed our bury tulle on to our bodice.
I don’t accept a account of me bed-making on my overlay, but actuality is how you do it.
Cut out an bury allotment hardly ample than your bodice — canonizing to bifold your tulle if you accept bifold layers of tulle on your skirt.
With amiss ancillary of bury (with tulle you don’t charge to anguish about amiss or appropriate ancillary though,) pin to RIGHT ancillary of bodice with the RAW edges calm at the TOP.
Stitch forth the high raw bend about 1/4 of an inch in. This stitch band with be hidden in the bond allowance aback you attach the yoke.
You will ONLY sew the overlap on forth the top of the bodice at this point because already you accept the bond attached, again you will LIFT up the tulle bury to cement on the flowers, as you can see below.
Once you accept added your overlay, sew your bond according to arrangement directions.
When your bond is complete, with appropriate abandon together, pin bond to the top bend of the bodice and baste.
if you are abacus a bodice lining, add now according to arrangement directions.
If you are abacus boning, additionally add according to arrangement directions.
As acclaimed above, we did not add boning to centermost seams, we alone added boning to the ancillary bond beneath the sleeves.
Since we did not use lining, we added our boning to the amplitude applique bond application a Mock Collapsed Felled Bond (or Welt Seam) to enclose the boning.
Once we had basted the bond to the high bend of the bodice lining, we accomplished off bed-making the bond to the bodice with a collapsed felled bond to enclose all the bolt edges and strengthen the bond aback the dress is so abundant and the applique is absolutely delicate.
Please note: these photos appearance the flowers in place. We had NOT added the flowers until afterwards we had absorbed the tulle bury to the top bend of the bodice and sewn the bond to the bodice as declared above.
Once we had absorbed the bond and added the boning to the ancillary seam, we aerial up the tulle and alert the flowers in place. Again we bankrupt the tulle aback bottomward over the flowers and accomplished the bend with a serger.
Please note: we serged all of our edges with a serger to accumulate them clean. If you don’t accept a serger, you can use a zig zag stitch or an overlock stitch on your bed-making machine.
Then, we hemmed the aback of the bodice and yolk. To abutting the dress, we after added angle and eye closures to the bond and eyelets and award to the bodice.
When you accept your top and your brim completed, it is time to put it all together!
We put our bodice on Olivia (of advance we did this abundant times during the architecture and reconstruction!) and abstinent area we capital the bodice to attach to the skirt.
We affianced in place.
And sewed…
To accomplishment off the waist, we added a award to actualize a candied waistband.
Now you accept a dress! But you charge to abutting it up.
(I anticipate it was the average of the night aback I accomplished our dress and I was too annoyed and rushed to booty photos. So sorry!)
We sewed a aback bond from the basal of the brim to about six inches beneath the waist so Olivia could get in and out of the dress. Because the tulle is so creamy and forgiving, we didn’t anguish about closing those six inches with a zipper. You can, of course, add a attachment if you wish.
Then we abstinent and added six eyelets/grommets to the aback of the bodice for lacing award and three angle and eye closures for the yoke.
Our dress is complete — and I achievement castigation formed able-bodied too!
PLEASE allotment beneath links, pictures, or comments if you are authoritative your own annual dress. I would LOVE to apprehend about yours!
Here are some added abutting up shots of seams and capacity for you to see abutting up how I accomplished my edges, seams, etc.
Thank you SO abundant for account and amuse let me apperceive if you accept any questions or problems with your dress construction.
If you appetite to jump aback to Part 1 of this tutorial, bang actuality for our Abatement Bogie Apparel DIY Part 1:
Written and photographed by Janice Croze, co-founder of 5 Minutes for Mom and Janice Croze Photography.
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