Bodice Front Style 38

The bodice of this garment has three pleats in the waist. This style is the same as Style 32, except the three darts in Style 32 have been converted to pleats. The step-by-step directions are therefore the same as for Style 32, but in the final step you mark pleats instead of darts.

Example: Outcome

Figure B shows Style 32 on the left, and the darts converted to pleats in Style 38 on the right.

The focus of these instructions is covering the theory and practice of manipulating darts and the exercise finishes after the dart manipulation has been done. For production ready patterns you would need to take further steps to add seam allowance, pattern labels, pattern piece numbers, the grainline, etc.