French Poetry Pleiades 1 Dress SIZES XL-6XL (Intermediate)

Description

French Poetry's popular Pleiades 1 dress features a signature inverted V-cut on bodice front, and has a lot of feminine details: soft gathers at shoulders and sleeve heads, covered buttons… Make Pleiades suitable for several seasons by selecting the different style options included: long sleeves, short sleeves, short tied sleeves, or “lantern” sleeves; gathered skirt, frilly skirt, or frill-less skirt.

**This pattern is in English**

Available sizes:

 XL - 6XL (also available in XS - XL, please seem other listing)

Difficulty:

3/5 – average. You need to be familiar with reading a sewing pattern, to know how to make gathers, insert a zipper, set in sleeves… Tutorials available here.

FABRIC CHOICE/YARDAGE

Length: with a 60inch (150cm) wide fabric, for sizes 16 to 34, you will need a maximum of 4 yards (3.5m) fabric for the version without frill, and 4.6 yards (4.2m) for version with frill.

Fabric choice: a large choice of woven fabrics: crepe, twill, poplin, double gauze… in  cotton, viscose, polyester, linen, tencel… This pattern is also ideal for velvet, as it has shoulder gathers instead of bust darts. You will need more fabric to match prints if any. 

You will need:

A 21inch (55cm) zipper, interfacing in the right weight for your fabric (half a yard or meter will be enough), 6 buttons for the bodice (they are decorative but also a way to hold facing in place even better). Matching thread for your fabric, scissors, pins, a marking pen, a machine needle that fits your fabric type. You will also need some strips of interfacing or organza to stabilize seams that are on the bias, to prevent any stretching (optional but recommended).

Sizing:

SIZE RANGE XL TO +6X (16 TO 34)

Finished measurements: