Butterick 6994

Another summer dress is this week's project! This one will fit all body types and is meant for woven fabrics. The fabric came from my stash. It requires bias tape and an invisible zipper. I show a hemline alteration and discuss choosing the right size. I show how to get a self-enclosed yoke/ shoulder area. Watch it through before you tackle the shoulder and front-facing. I rip out and change mine and it is much better!
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0:00 Intro
3:09 Adapting the pattern hem changes
5:56 Choosing your size, wearing ease
7:55 Cutting out
11:13 Interfacing and transfer markings
12:18 Staystitching and seam finishes
17:17 Center front seam
17:58 Invisible zipper
22:31 Pockets
27:45 Back pleat
30:26 Back yoke to back
32:52 Shoulder seam first round
37:11 PSA to wait!
38:13 Top-stitching the yoke
39:11 Front placket
44:22 Shoulder/ yoke take 2
46:37 Collar
50:22 Side seams
51:34 Hem
52:25 Collar hand work
55:01 Bias in the armhole
1:01:54 Final garment
Sewing Machine: Bernina 770QE
Overlock/Serger: Bernina L890
Music: Tip Toe out the back

[@maryflynn1951]

Nice make, I love your sewing space 💞

[@stellaunger8568]

I think the dress looks great on you. Thanks for sharing ❤️😁🌹

[@Dashzap]

What a cute dress! I like it much better without a belt.

[@stacyrobbins]

Thank you! I think so too.

[@suearthur5129]

Thanks for the sew along. Love the colour you chose and the dress looks great on you.

[@stacyrobbins]

Thank you! 💕

[@sandyerickson4214]

It really looks adorable on you. And I just love your videos.

[@stacyrobbins]

Thank you so much, Sandy!

[@marybogar5981]

Great techniques! Thank you for sharing.

[@stacyrobbins]

Thanks for watching!

[@mimicope3404]

I love this style of dress! It helps to hide my tummy, but I need a sleeve. Even just a small sleeve.

[@stacyrobbins]

Yes, this style hides all kinds of things! 😅 It would be pretty easy to add a little cap sleeve or a flounce. I need to make up a cap to slip into dresses like this. Thanks for watching!

[@frichickie2]

This is really, really good. I will be making it with a cap sleeve and the top suggestion too is perfect. Keeper!

[@stacyrobbins]

YAY! Please check back in when you make your dress and let me know how it goes. I love to hear what fabric you choose etc.

[@ZeldaSews]

Hi Stacy! I'm watching you make a beautiful dress! ❤👗 ❤

[@stacyrobbins]

Hey Gal! I love how your slopers are coming along. I want to make new custom slopers so badly. My size is changing again so I am waiting for it to settle down. Then I will be back on the slopers too!

[@aribella6913]

It’s a great dress. I have the opposite problem, flat derrière, or just about. All my dresss need the back altered shorter. This is why I love sewing so much. Pants that fit correctly only come from my sewing room. 😊

[@stacyrobbins]

YES! So many come to sewing because of fit issues. We are all so different. Once you have a pair of custom fitted pants it is hard to wear anything else!

[@DiannaAtherton]

Love love the color on you. Cute summer dress. I may have to make this cutie dress

[@sandreawhite7534]

Beautiful

[@stacyrobbins]

Thank you 💕

[@VivaSewStyle]

Very pretty dress❤ my Joann does not have it yet but I will add it to my wishlist

[@stacyrobbins]

Thank you! This will look so good on you!

[@reneemorgan9320]

This turned out really good! It has a little vintage feel! And I love the color! You made the invisible zipper look so easy! I have never successfully sewn a big 4 pattern that I can wear. I actually recently bought a couple big 4 patterns to try and use as a sloper for drafting my own patterns or checking fit on other patterns. Definitely on the struggle bus with it. I bought Butterick 6850 as a princess seam sloper and I haven't done it yet but have tried an old vogue pattern 1004 and Butterick 6849 and it didn't go so well. Have you ever heard of the Sew/Fit Manual? Its a book from the 70s by Ruth Oblander and Joan Anderson. Its solving fit issues using pivot and slide techniques. Their philosophy on which size to pick is interesting. Its a measurement taken from the front basically from armpit to armpit and they have a formula telling you which big 4 size to start from in the neck/shoulder area and grade out from there. Nancy Zieman's techniques are very similar. For some reason I have been fixated lately on these slopers and I can't seem to get past them. 😂

[@stacyrobbins]

Thank you! So many comment of the difficulty of fit with the standard pattern. There are a few out there adding cup size options but I am finding the independent pattern companies are more size and fit inclusive. I have heard of the Sew/Fit method. There is a current one with the same philosophy for pants. It makes sense! When I have made custom slopers, I use a pattern as the starting place. Once I start fitting and the darts move, deepen at the top shorten at the bottom, the waistline dips in the front... They change so much from the starting point. I have an outline for this but I am waiting until my size settles. 😅 This is a planned video series though! Please pop back in the comments and let me know where you go in this journey. Other will find it helpful too! I see the sew/fit is still available. I need to check it out.

[@suearthur5129]

Ps I am now going to buy an enclosed zipper foot and check out your how to video.

[@stacyrobbins]

YAY! I love an invisible zipper.

[@ZeldaSews]

Hi Everyone, My name is Zelda and I am a fabrichalic! 😅😅😅

[@stacyrobbins]

Hi Zelda! I too am a fabricaholic! 😂🧵