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MaraLounge Dress

One Size

Description

The Mara Lounge Dress is a loose-fitting, flowy knit dress designed for lounging, sleeping or any time you just want an easy one-step outfit! Make one exclusively for wearing around the house or use a trendy fabric and wear it out and about with a cute belt and shoes.

Appropriate Sewing Level

Beginner to Intermediate The basic silhouette is a simple, beginner-friendly project but the optional button placket requires a slightly more advanced skill set.

Materials

• Appropriate yardage of a thinner knit fabric with a good drape. Recommended Fabrics: jersey, spandex, interlock, etc. • 1/4 yard knit (stretchy) stay tape or clear elastic (if making the basic view) • Matching thread For optional button placket: • 3-4 snaps & snap-setting tool• 10” x 5” piece of lightweight fusible interfacing• 1/4 yard regular stay tape (instead of knit stay tape listed above)

Sizing

One size fits most bodies, although you can make adjustments if you are considerably larger or smaller than the finished garment measurements listed below. If your measurements fall to-wards the upper end of the body measurements, be aware that the dress will not hang as loosely as pictured without some additional ease.

Body Measurements

Bust Waist hip

30” (77 cm) - 50” (127 cm)

25” (64 cm) - 50” (127 cm)

33” (84 cm) -56” (143 cm)

Finished Garment Measurements

Bust Waist hip

47” (119 cm) 49’ (124 cm) 55” (140 cm)

Additional Instructions

Seam Allowances (SA): 3/8” (1 cm), unless otherwise noted

Hem Allowance: Hem allowance is 1/2” (1.3 cm), unless otherwise noted

Finish Raw Edges: Serge or zig-zag raw edges of fabric or seam allowance

Press: Iron seam allowances open or to one side

RST/WST: Right/wrong sides together

Edgestitch: Stitching close to seamline through pattern piece and seam allowance in order to keep SA in place.

Hemming Knits: For sleeves and bottom of dress, fold raw edge under 1/2” (1.3 cm) and press. Using a double needle or other stretch stitch, stitch hem on right sight of fabric, approximately 1/4” (.6 cm) from bottom fold. Press well.

Topstitching: Visible stitching along neckline, placket, etc. used as a decorative element or to keep binding or seam allowance lying flat; can be done in a matching thread or in a contrast thread to add visual interest. Be sure to use a double needle or other stretch stitch, where indi-cated.

Pattern Printing and Piecing Instructions

When you’re ready to print, set your printer settings to NOT scale your pattern pieces. (Look for the option to print “Actual Size” or uncheck “Fit to Page”. ) Before printing out all your pattern pieces, I recommend only printing the first pattern page and measuring the 2” (5cm) calibration square to ensure that your printer is not scaling the pattern.

This pattern is also designed with NO-TRIM pages which means that you do not need to cut off your margins before tap-ing together. Simply overlap the margin of one page over the margin of the neighboring page, matching up letter markings, and tape securely (see overview on page 4). Then trace or cut out your pattern pieces.

TERMS OF USEAll pictures, diagrams, charts and text are the property of Bonnie Wiscombe and the blog Bonnie and Blithe.

All rights are reserved. Please do not share the contents of this pattern in any way; copying or emailing this pat-tern for another person’s use is a copyright violation and is unfair to the designer.

For personal use only. Please do not sell garments made from this pattern.

THANK YOU for respecting my time and effort!

Yardage Requirements

Fabric Cutting Instructions

When cutting a long, thin pattern such as this dress, it’s the most efficient to fold both selvages of your fabric in towards each other, so that they meet in the center. This way you can place both bodice pieces on a fold without wasting fabric. If you’re working with fabric that’s not wide enough for this, place pattern pieces as shown in the bottom cutting diagram. You can also cut 2 of the back piece (instead of on the fold) if necessary. Just add a seam allowance of 3/8” (1 cm) to the width before cutting out! Then sew both pieces together along the straight edge and continue as instructed.

Cut 2 Bodices (piece 1) on the fold, one front bodice and one back bodice.Cut 2 mirrored pairs (4 total) of Pocket (piece 3).Cut 1 Neckband (piece 4) - note that length of this piece depends on optional snap placketOptional: Cut 2 Plackets (piece 5) - one of these pieces will be cut down later.

Imperial Fabric Width

Required Yardage

Metric Fabric Width

60/54” 44”

2 3/4 yd (2.5 m)3 1/4 yd (3 m)

150/135cm115cm

7Instructions

1. Stitch front bodice to back bodice RST at shoulder seams. Press well.

2. Pin long edge of sleeve to armhole opening, RST, raw edges even and center of sleeve lined up with shoulder seam. Stitch, press and repeat with second sleeve on opposite side.

OPTIONAL: If adding snap placket, go to page 12 and follow those instructions to finish dress.

3. Stitch neckband together along short ends RST to make a loop; press. Fold neckband in half lengthwise, wrong sides together, and press well.

4. Baste a piece of knit stay tape (or clear elastic; tape must be stretchy!) along wrong side of neck-line edge. Place 4 pins equidistant along the neckband (marking 4 quarters of the band) and do the same to dress neckline. Be sure to sew the tape so that about half the width of the tape is hanging off the bodice (see photos pg 12) so that tape will not rub against skin once the neckline is finished.

Pin band to neckline, RST, raw edges even and matching each pin in band to each pin in dress (be sure to place the neckband seam sewn in step 3 at the center back of dress).

5. Baste neckband to neckline, stretching band to fit. Try dress on to make sure neckline lies flat. Stitch together using a stretch stitch or serger. Press neckband away from dress and seam allow-ance towards dress. You can leave the neckband as is, topstitch along bodice neckline, close to seam (using a double needle or other stretch stitch) OR turn the neckband down inside the dress and stitch in place also with a stretch stitch (see step 15 on page 18.)

6. Pin pockets to front and back bodice pieces at markings RST; stitch. Press pocket and seam al-lowance away from bodice; edgestitch through pocket and SA.

7. Fold raw edges of sleeves down 1/2” (1.3 cm) (wrong sides together) and press well. Unfold for the next step.

8. With right sides together, sew side seams from sleeve opening to bottom hem of dress, match-ing up sleeve seams and following the curve of the pockets (do not sew pockets closed!); press well. Serge or finish raw edges of seam allowance.

9. Re-fold the edges of sleeves as you did in step 7 and hem with a double needle or stretch stitch. Press under raw edge of dress and hem the bottom as you did the sleeves.

You’ve now completed your Mara Lounge Dress! Pull it on and never leave the house again :)

Don’t forget to share pictures of your Mara Lounge Dress on social media

using the hashtags #MaraLoungeDress and #BonnieandBlithePatterns!

OPTIONAL SNAP PLACKET

1. Without stretching the fabric, baste a piece of stay tape (regular stay tape is OK, doesn’t need to be stretchy) to right side of bodice neckline; be sure to sew the tape so that about half the width of the tape is hanging off the bodice (see photos). This prevents the tape from showing once the neckline is finished.

2. Draw a line down the center front of your bodice, extending 8” straight down from the neckline. Cut along this line, taking care to only cut through the front bodice piece and not the back!

3. Cut one placket piece shorter according to the guide on pattern piece 5. Add lightweight fus-ible interfacing to wrong sides of both placket facing pieces.

4. Turn your bodice inside out and pin the shorter placket piece along the left side of the opening you just cut, right side down. In other words, the right side of your placket piece will be touching the wrong side of your bodice front. Repeat with longer placket piece on right side of opening.

*The top of your placket pieces should be flush with the raw edge of the neckline.

5. Sew each placket piece to the opening you cut using a 1/2” seam allowance, and continue stitching 1/2” PAST the bottom of the opening. Snip 2 diagonal cuts at the bottom of the open-ing, pointing towards each line of stitching you just sewed (cutting only through bodice, NOT placket pieces). This will create a little triangle flap of fabric.

6. Turn bodice right side out. Pull one placket piece out of the opening and press placket and seam allowance away from bodice so that placket piece lays flat. Now, fold over the raw edge of the placket piece 1/2” (wrong sides together) and press.

7. Fold the placket piece in half lengthwise, wrong sides together, so that placket completely en-cases the raw edge of bodice opening; pin in place. At the bottom, fold the little triangle of fabric (created in step 5) down on the front of the bodice and pin placket over it.

8. Beginning at the neckline, topstitch all the way down the folded edge of this placket piece, stopping about 1/2” from bottom, then pivot and stitch the bottom in place, catching the triangle of fabric underneath. **Be sure to only sew through this one placket at this point!**

9. Repeat steps 6-7 with the opposite placket piece. Also topstitch along the inside long edge of this piece, but this time stop about 1.5” from the bottom instead of pivoting and continuing on at the bottom.

10. Fold the bottom raw end of this top placket piece under 1/2” (be sure your fabric is neatly folded under and not spilling out) and stitch it down with a big square, and then a large X through the square (you’ll be stitching through both plackets at this point).

11. Add 3-4 snaps where desired on placket.

12. Fold neckband in half lengthwise RST and stitch each short end closed. Trim corners, turn right side out and fold in half lengthwise again; press well.

13. Pin one end of neckband to one side of the front opening of bodice neckline, right sides together and raw edges even. Pin opposite end of neckband to opposite side of bodice opening. Find center of neckband and pin that to center bodice back. Continue pinning neckband evenly around neckline as needed.

14. Stitch both layers of neckband to neckline (you might need to stretch the neckband just a bit to fit), ensuring that the edge of your stay tape stays within your seam allowance. Press neck-band and seam allowance away from dress; edgestitch through neckband and SA.

15. Fold neckband to inside of dress and press. Topstitch through bodice & neckband, close to folded edge of band, using a regular stitch (does not need to be stretchy) or double needle.

Return to step 6 on page 9 to finish construction of dress.

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