Most overweight women have complexes about their weight and envy slim people. After all, it is very easy for girls with model appearance to buy any outfit for themselves. The stores mainly offer outfits for standard sizes, but overweight women have to either sew to order or learn to make clothes for themselves.
In addition, in the store you can often buy an outfit made of linen that is not of the best quality. Today we want to talk about how to sew a dress for an overweight girl with your own hands.
Building the basis of a dress pattern for a full figure: features
The basis of the pattern is a cast from the customer’s body or from your body if you are sewing a dress for yourself. These are individual parameters, each of which is measured separately. The dress, sewn according to an individual pattern, will fit perfectly on your figure. Be it boho or another model of the product.
All the outfits that are sold on store shelves are also made according to an individual pattern.This dress will follow all the curves of your figure. Finding something similar in a store is quite difficult, especially when it comes to large sizes.
By making a pattern for a full figure with your own hands, you can sew a beautiful dress, despite the fact that it will fit you perfectly, and you will also save a lot.
A simple dress pattern for obese women: how to make and sew
Making a dress pattern has been the subject of designers and tailors for several centuries. The final result depends on a correctly constructed pattern. Professional tailors need to make a pattern, because without one, fitting can take a very long time.
Not everyone manages to make a pattern correctly the first time, but everything comes with experience. If the client feels the tailor is unsure, he may simply refuse to place the order. Because we all want to receive high-quality work in a short time. To create fashionable items for beginners you will need the following data:
- The length of the product is measured from the neck bone to the waist and extended to the desired length of the dress.
- Armhole depth - measured from the cervical vertebra to the armpit.
- Back width - measured by the width of the back in the area of the shoulder blades.
- Half chest circumference – measured above the base of the chest and along the shoulder blades.
- Half waist circumference - measured horizontally at the narrowest point.
- Back shoulder height - measured from shoulder to waist.
- Side length is measured from the armpit to the waist.
- Sleeve length is measured from shoulder to wrist.
For a loose fit, leave 4 cm in the chest area, 3 cm in the hip area, and 2 cm at the waist. If you make small allowances, then you can literally throw away the material, because you can’t finish the entire length of the dress.Or, as an option, make inserts from a different material and create a new design, but will the customer agree to this?
If you have made too deep a hole, then in this case, too, nothing can be done. In the best case, you will have to buy the same material for the customer with your hard earned money.
How to make a pattern that will perfectly match the customer’s proportions?
The main rule that you must learn is the correct measurement between points. For example, they measured the length of the sleeve and put it on the drawing. Our task is to make a three-dimensional figure on a flat sheet of paper.
You need to take as many individual measurements as possible, then the pattern will be more accurate. The calculation method should not be used in this case.
How to create a pattern for a fashionable dress for obese women and sew it yourself
First you need to prepare paper, pencil, pen, ruler and scissors. All work is carried out in stages. First of all, you need to make a pattern for the back. The first thing to do is note the length of the dress. After this, mark the depth of the armhole. Then we draw straight horizontal lines that will be the depths.
Then we make a shoulder dart. The shoulder length is made 2 cm longer than necessary, because another dart will be made along the back. Don't forget about the waistline.
The front breast cut should start slightly above the most protruding point on the chest. You can make the neck of any shape, the most important thing is that it is not too small, otherwise it may dig into the throat.
The shoulder undercut is necessary so that the dress does not stick out, but fits well on the figure.
A dart at the waist is necessary to make the product fitted.In a word, with the help of such a simple manipulation we sew excess fabric into the middle of the product.
Reference! If the dress is made of stretch material, then it is not necessary to make undercuts.
The underbust underbust is necessary to create a bulge, because our outfit is for a girl. Very often, it is on the chest that a store-bought dress begins to bulge, all because the product was made according to the measurements of a completely different person.
Don’t be afraid to come up with something of your own, because each model was also invented by a person. Perhaps you will be able to create something original.
You can make the shoulder line longer so that the dress falls beautifully from the shoulders. When drawing the armhole, take into account your size so that the dress does not dig into your arm.
The widening of the skirt begins at the hip line. It is necessary to make the dress a little wider so that it does not hinder movement while walking.
Attention! A stretch skirt will rise with every step and you will constantly need to straighten it.
If the hip circumference is greater than the chest circumference, then the hip line must be made larger.
Having made a pattern once, you can use it to make various outfits. In addition, there are unique programs that help you create a pattern based on your entered data; the task will only be to put the drawing on paper and cut it out or print it on a printer.
Modeling a pattern for a dress will not be difficult even for a beginner, but keep in mind that sewing is not easy and you need to learn everything. In any case, the second time you will definitely do a more accurate job.
You can cut out the lining using ready-made fabric blanks. Let's move on to cutting out the blanks.Place an ironed cloth on the table, maybe a bedspread without long pile or a sheet folded several times. Iron it with water.
After this, lay out all the blanks, draw them on the fabric using soap or a simple pencil. Don't forget to leave seam allowances. The parts are cut taking into account the allowances, double-check everything several times, and only then take the scissors.
Then baste the darts, side seams and shoulder seams. After this, the stitching stage begins.
First, small elements are sewn together - collar, cuffs, all this is basted, stitched and well ironed. The cuffs are then basted to the sleeves.
Sew all the darts and iron them. After each seam it is necessary to iron. Only by following this rule will you be able to sew an impeccable item. The shoulder seam is sewn and ironed. After this, the side seam is sewn and ironed.
Attention! Don't forget to overlock the cuts to prevent the fabric from fraying.
After that, we sew in the sleeves and sew the bottom with a machine.
In conclusion, it is necessary to add - if you decide to sew a dress with your own hands, then why not do it? Using your own pattern, after one job you will be able to sew skirts, blouses, dresses, sundresses.
Now you know exactly how to sew a large size dress with your own hands. The most important thing in this matter is to start and not be afraid. If you don’t want to ruin expensive material, you can always try sewing from cheap material first. Creative success!
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