Drafting the Dress Block
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Drafting the Dress Block

- Using your Bodice Blocks and Skirts Blocks; joining them together, and making adjustments to the waist darts
- Using a Torso block. A Torso block finishes just before the hips, so it’s just a case of extending the Torso down to the required (preferred) length for the dress.*
Darts
This dress block has a bodice side seam dart and two waist darts that run through the bodice and skirt. When making the ELD block from the Bodice & Skirt blocks, it doesn’t matter if the darts on the Bodice & Skirt don’t match up, these can just be redrawn.Example
An example of a dress made with the ELD block is the princess-line dress shown to the right in Image 2. The dress on the left has a waist seam; it is made using the Bodice and Skirt Blocks. The dress on the right is made using the ELD dress block; there is no waist seam, the side-seam and waist darts are incorporated into the design line.
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Hi,
I am Janaka from Sri Lanka.
Hope your help to learn Pattern of Dresses.
Thanks,
Janaka.
Hello and welcome, Janaka.