hey guys is the ni tabla here and in this video I'm gonna show you how to drink a deep v-neck bodice so let's begin so here I am working with a yard and a half of muslin fabric so to start off I cut down my muslin to 22 inches from the top edge and now I'm gonna cut it in half as you can see here which could give me two pieces of 22 by 20 inch muslin piece so I'm gonna press it out make sure it's nice and neat so here at the edge of the selvage of the muslin I'm going to place my ruler there at one-inch and draw my centre front line as always now on this piece I decided to draw a one inch at the bottom of the muslin because this was a guideline because the way I'm going to drape that this time will be different from usual now I'm going to go ahead with the second piece and draw my one in center front line as well that would be for the back portion when it's time to drape so instead of me placing this on the front against that center front line on the dress form I'm going to put it diagonally from the shoulder down to the center front line as the bodice this will help keep my neckline straight without having any gaps or excess that might happen if I were to cut it on a diagonal instead so here you're just going to basically place the center front line of the muslin at the highest point of the shoulder where I'm showing you right here and I'm gonna pin that down in place and then I'm going to allow it to go diagonally across the center front of the dress form if it goes over the center front line that's okay I'm using the line at the bottom to help guide to make sure that it's straight against the floor but I'm gonna fold in that one-inch center front I'm gonna fold it inward all the way down and pin it in place so that way it doesn't move I'm here I'm gonna determine how far down I want to go and bring my neckline you can decide if you want to go all the way down to the waistline I went down to mid waist and then came down on the on a dress form so here I decided that I wanted one dart instead of two darts so I decided to do a dart that goes diagonal from the apex of the bust all the way down to close to the side seam now as you can see this is gonna be a diagnosed it's gonna eliminate the princess dart and bust dart as well and I'm gonna have a diagonal dart which I prefer it better so I'm going to go ahead and pin that excess of fabric right there to create my dart and smooth the areas out while I'm draping so here I'm gonna smooth it towards the back that fabric towards the back by the armhole to make sure it's nice and smooth so I can make sure I can reshape that dart so here on the side I see that I need some more ease to allow the fabric to smooth around the waistline so I'm gonna go ahead and just slash into those areas just to help smooth the fabric and ease it in I'm going to cut away this excess fabric that I don't need at the side and then I'm gonna slash into the waistline but not all the way to the way smart but just enough for me to allow the fabric to ease in just like so I'm gonna reposition my pins at the side seam and just readjust my dart to make sure that's the shape I want and I continue to flash at the waistline towards the back at the sizing now once I've done that I'm going to mark my shoulder at the highest point of the shoulder and then mark where I'm gonna stop my neckline and I'm gonna redraw in my Center frontline while using the dress form Center front line as a guide then after that I'm going to draw in my waistline using the waistline mark tape and then I'm gonna mark my bus start here I'm marking the front side of the dart and then I'm marking the back side of the dart once I have done that I'm going to take it all the way down to the waist line and continue to mark that all the way to the side scene I'm gonna use the side seam stitching on the dress form and follow that now I'm going to mark my armhole and marked the end of the shoulder actors shoulder seam now once you have complete it will look like this and now it's time to drape the back so here I'm gonna take the other piece of muslin that I had and I'm going to place it onto the center back of the dress form and pin it in place so just make sure that you have enough room at the top that goes over the shoulder I came down about four inches so that way you have enough room to drape and then you want to push all that fabric forward to the front from the shoulder seam as you can see the fabric is tight at the neckline of the back all you have to do is just cut into that neckline so you can allow the fabric to ease in so just slash into it but don't slash all the way to the next scene pin the excess at the side seam now once you have pinned the side seam now it's time for you to create your dart the dart I'm gonna come mid to Midway of the armhole or lower don't go higher than the midpoint of the armhole and you want to start creating your backyard so I'm gonna follow it by using the back princess seam to create that Dart once I pin that into place again if you see that the fabric has been straining a little bit just go ahead and just cut into the fabric to ease it in so you can smooth that out and reshape it around the waist area I'm gonna cut away some of that extra fabric that's hanging there and then I'm going to now mark my side seam using the side of the dress form from the armhole down to the waist line make sure you mark your waist mark and then I'm going to mark the waist below the tape make sure you keep it consistent if you're gonna use above the waist tape stay above the waist tape for all pieces then I'm gonna mark up my darts on one side and I will do the same thing for the other side and continue on to the waistline now you want to mark in the highest point of your shoulder and the end of your shoulder line and then mark your armhole make sure you smooth that out while you're marking lastly you want to mark the neckline of your back bodice now once you have both pieces completed and rate now it's time for you to put them together so we're gonna go ahead and correct our marks so we're gonna open up our pattern to see what it looks like here it is the front portion of my drape bodice here I'm gonna mark my dart as you can see my dart is on a curve so I want to make sure I keep that curve so I'm gonna do that for both side of the dart since the dart has so much excess of fabric I've decided I'm gonna cut it away I'm gonna add a half an inch to the dark scene and then for the center front since I have redrawn my center front line I'm gonna make sure I perfect that line and then I'm gonna have a one-inch center front that will lead right into the neckline I'm gonna perfect the bottom of my bodice and then draw in my sizing here I went in and drew in my arm hole now I'm putting in my half an inch I'm gonna repeat the same process once again for the back bodice but this time I'm not gonna cut away my dart I'm gonna leave it just as is so I'm gonna draw in my dart just straighten that up the back guard is more straighter than the front one and I'm going to just perfect my line and add in my half an inch seam allowance I didn't add any I didn't add any seam allowance to the neckline of the back bodice and the front bodice that will be determined when I put the draped bodice back onto the dress form so here I'm going to pin everything back into place and cut out my patterns and put the pattern together again so I can refit it on to the dress form to see how it fits and you will have this and now it's time for me to place it onto the dress form so I'm pinning it back onto the dress form here's the center of back and here's the center front and it looks perfect so once I've checked everything looks good it's time for me to transfer it onto paper now transferring your patterns onto paper I want to make sure that I get most accuracy from my patterns so I go ahead and press it out to make sure everything is nice and neat I draw my center front line once again on my pattern paper place the center front of the front bodice against that Center front line the neckline is on a diagonal and I still decided not to add any seam allowance to that because I think it's fine the way it is and I'm going to trace the pattern all over again using my tracing markers who mark the dart and I'm going to add in the half an inch so here I'm cutting it out I decided to leave the center front with a half an inch that just gave me the option to put it against the fold or cut out twice and here I'm drawing my grain line now I'm going to go ahead and do the same thing to the back bodice and retrace it here I'm joining my sister front line placing the back against that line the center back of the bodice will have a seam allowance of a half an inch and retracing the whole bodice again and then tracing my dart and make sure you mark your waist mark on both pattern pieces the center back of the bodice will have a seam allowance of 1/2 an inch and I'm drawing in my half an inch seam allowance all around the pattern once I've done that I'm going to cut out my pattern and they are ready to be tested to see how it fits thank you for watching this video I hope you enjoyed it give it a thumbs up if you did like it and I will see you guys in the next video bye guys