Fold the long edges over and press, then fold the strips in half and press again. Repeat for the back section, excluding the buttons.Ĭut two 4.5cm x 60cm strips of green fabric, turn the short edges over and press. Hold in place with hand-sewn over stitches, being mindful not to go through to the right side. Fold the raw edges over so that they are level with the zig zag stitching on the right sides and pin for a neat edge. On the green top front section on the dress sew two tiny buttons 1cm in, just above the zig zag stitches. Turn the dress through so the lining is inside and press. Machine stitch together at the armholes and trim the seams. Turn the main dress inside out and pin to the lining so the wrong sides are facing. Pin the front and back pieces of the dress together with right sides facing and machine stitch along both side seams, with a 5mm seam allowance, then press them open. Zig zag stitch along one edge with white thread. Trim around the edges and secure along the tips of the front and back floral dress pieces. Unpin the petals and fold them over, sewing tiny buttons onto each curve with dark blue thread to secure them, being mindful not to sew into the dress for the middle one.Ĭut two top panels from fusible webbing, using the template, and iron to the green fabric. Position the pocket onto the dress piece, referring to the image for guidance, and pin the petals up. Ensure the curves of the petals are poking out at the top and zig zag stitch all three pieces together along the upper edge of the pocket. Pin the top section of the petals on top of the green pocket piece with wrong sides facing and add the lemon piece onto this, with the right side facing out. Iron the interfacing onto the wrong side of the green fabric.
Using the pocket template (download below) cut one green, one lemon and one interfacing piece. Press both white petal pieces together with right sides facing and machine stitch around the curved edges leaving the top section unstitched. Zig zag stitch the flower to the middle of one of the petal pieces, on the right side. Press fusible webbing to the back of a scrap of floral fabric and cut out one flower section.
Iron the interfacing onto the wrong side of one of the fabric pieces.
Using white thread, work a zig zag stitch along the edges of each band to secure them in place.Ĭut two petal motifs from white fabric and one from medium-weight interfacing, using the template on pages 82-83. Iron the webbing onto the wrong side of a piece of green fabric, cut out and pin a strip along the right side of each of the floral pieces, 5cm from the bottom seam. Download the template below, cut out two dress pieces from floral fabric and two from lemon cotton (for the lining), as well as two bands from fusible webbing.
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