The Heatwave Dress
With Emma Moëller
DATE: 3 Mondays, Aug 10th, 17th, 24th
TIME: 6pm - 9pm (3 sessions x 3hrs = 9 hours)
The Heatwaves dress is the perfect cottage core dress! It has a form fitting bodice that goes down to the natural waist with a shirring panel at the back for extra comfort. Heatwaves also has a drawstring detail at the centre front, a cute short puffy sleeve and 2 skirts options: a midi length with a slit and a mini tiered gathered skirt.
SIZE RANGE: AA-O
BUST: 78 cm (30 3/4’’) - 140cm (55 1/8’’)
WAIST: 62 cm (24 3/8’’) – 124 cm (48 7/8’’)
HIPS: 91 cm (35 7/8’’) – 153 cm (60 ¼’’)
FABRIC SUGGESTIONS:
The Heatwaves dress is designed to work with light to medium weight woven fabrics like rayon and viscose (crepe, voile, poplin, twill, challis), cotton (lawn, voile, poplin, crinkle cotton, shirting), linen (washed linen, linen noil) and tencel twill. Fabrics like rayon will look more fluid and have more drape and fabrics like cotton will give more structure and volume.
This class includes a PDF and paper copy of the pattern ($38 value)
*Please see images to find your size and fabric requirements, if you have any questions about purchasing fabrics please let us know!
Please also note that the fit of the dress will be affected by the *main fabric* choice because of the shirring panel at the back. Fabrics with more structure like cotton or linen will generally not gather as much when shirring. Make sure to adjust your machine so the center back (4) is appropriately gathered when sewing. Otherwise, it might make the bust fit too loose/big.
NOTIONS:
✿ Main fabric
✿ Lining fabric (I recommend something more structured like cotton)
✿ Sewing needle
✿ Sewing thread
✿ About 2 meters/yds of 1cm (3/8’’) wide elastic
✿ Elastic thread (I recommend the Gütermann one)
Experience Level: Level 4 - Intermediate Garment, have sewn multiple simple garments. This level expands on garment sewing techniques and working with a variant of fabrics such as very light, heavy, stretchy or slinky fabrics.
Age appropriate: Teens and Adults 18+
Location: Empire Make Space 168 1/2 Ottawa St. N
Instructor: Emma Moëller