Lengthening The Wrap Dress

We’ve had a few requests from those of you that would like to lengthen The Wrap Dress. We do lengthen some of our front cover samples for our long legged ladies..here’s how to do it! (A Lot of these steps can be used when lengthening other patterns as well. Always keep in mind that whatever you do to the front, should be done to the back and other attached pieces) For this particular pattern, you’ll need the Front Flounce, Lower Front and Lower Back pieces.

For The Wrap Dress you’ll need to extend the grainline on the Front Flounce, and then draw a perpendicular line square to your extended grainline you’ve just drawn. Cut along the horizontal line.

On a piece of scrap paper or tissue draw a vertical and horizontal line that are square. Determine the amount of length you would like to add (here we added 2″) and draw a parallel line 2″ from the horizontal line you’ve just drawn.

Tape your pieces in place, matching all your lines up.

Using a curved ruler, or by “eyeballing it”. Connect your pattern pieces with a pencil.

And cut!

And the same goes for the Lower Front and Lower Back. We’ll demonstrate the Lower Back.

Draw a perpendicular square line to the place on fold line…

and cut along that line.

On a piece of scrap paper or tissue draw a vertical and horizontal line that are square. Because we added 2″ to the front flounce, draw a parallel line 2″ from the horizontal line you’ve just drawn.