hey guys it's Dan let's have wha here and in this video I'm going to show you how to make this sequence strapless flare dress so let's begin so here I'm working with my first rate tutorial that I showcase here on YouTube the sweetheart bodice and I'm going to link the video for you above so you can go and watch that if you haven't created this bodice for yourself and the second video is a video for you to learn how to transfer from the drape bodice onto paper so once you get to that point you can come back and do this video with the new patterns that fits you I'm working with this sequence as you can see the sequence has a s tech motif and it's about 1 yard neoprene that is 2 yards and as you can see my quality is mesh here I have one yard of fusible fabric the fusible is cotton and it has a glue side is a medium waist and I'm going to using this for my bodice to give it more body in this video I use interlocked stretch lining but I recommend non stretch lining lastly I have invisible zipper and boning it's been a while since I've used this pattern so I don't know how it fits anymore so I'm going to go and read drape it to see how it fits so I'm cutting it out on muslin fabric so I can test it out so you want to do that if you if you already have the pattern if you don't you can start from scratch so here I'm putting it together and I'm sewing it down so I can go and fit it on my dress form so here I'm putting on my dress form inside out so I can better shape it and I'm pinning this in the back and then I'm going to look at it from the front to see how it's shaped now I don't like the way it fits on top or I want it to be more closer to the body so I'm going to go and reshape that so here I'm basically deciding which side I would like to work with I usually work with the left side I'm going to start shaping the princess seam so here I decided that I wanted to bring down my neckline I wanted to be a little bit lower is too high so I'm going to come down about an inch from the top and just you know reshape that neckline then once I reach it's my princess seam I'm going to go and mark it up into how I want it and make my adjustments well as I go along I'm going to cut away the access at the top and reshape and mark the bust area I want to make sure it fits nice so I'm going to take my time with this and once you have everything completed you like the way it looks then it will finally look like this now it's perfect okay so now I'm taking it back I'm going to use only one side of my bodice as you can see I'm going to use the side that I'd rate and the other way I'm going to disregard it because I didn't do nothing on that side so here I'm going to reshape that line that I created while I was draping and fitting the bodice and I'm going to do that for the both the side panel and this is the front panel and then I'm going to come away all that excess of fabric so right now it does not have no seam allowance so I'm going to just trim that all the way and transfer it on to paper so here I got my pattern paper I'm going to place my patterns onto my pattern paper and I'm going to take my ruler and draw mine center front line I'm going to place the center front of the bodice onto the fold line and copy the whole pattern here I'm using my hip curve ruler just to reshape the line and clean everything up make it more nice and neat and then I'm going to add my half an inch at that princess seam also since I didn't have a seam allowance at my neckline I'm going to add that half an inch as well and I'm just marking my grain line on my pattern so I'm going to do the same thing for the front side panel I'm going to add my 1/2 an inch at this princess seam and at the neckline of that side panel and draw in my 1/2 an inch at the side seam of that side panel for the rest of the back panels I'm just going to go and recopy them I don't need to do anything else Versailles is copy so once I have all that complete it will look like this I'm going to transfer it onto fabric now I do recommend you to test yours on a test fabric before you cut it on the actual fabric so here I went ahead and cut it on fabric as you can see this is the front is cut on the fold and I also cut out my fusible as well so now I'm going to get ready to place my suitable on these sequent patterns and I'm going to use hot iron to iron it on and this will help to give the bodice a more more body and more firmness to it so I'm going to repeat the process for all other panels and it will look like this all of it all infused once I have everything infused it's time for me to go ahead and put them together so I can stitch them down so here I pinned it together to see how it looks I want everything to be aligned also if you're using a novelty fabric and it has like striping details tries to make sure that you aligned everything together I had a problem with my fabric I didn't make sure that it was all aligned also on the backside when I cut so the back is a little bit off as you can see here on one side the panel which kind of irks me but it is what it is is a sample so here I measured my waist now I'm going to get ready to transfer that waist measurement onto my skirt portion of the dress so here I'm taking my neoprene I folded selfishness Salvage and I measured a cross to see how wide my fabric was my favorite was sixty so I'm going to measure down against the fold thirty inches as well and then fold it in half to create two sets of skirts so here as you can see it's folded down and it's folded on the fold which has two folds now and I'm going to cut it straight across so at the corner I'm going to create my waistline measurement in order for you to get the waist measurement you have to divide your waist measurement that you took on your bodice and divide that by four so mine was 28 so I divided that by four and he gave me seven from the edge I'm going to come down four and a half to create my curve now you have to determine how much you need to come down with your measurement and then once I come down so I'm going to start placing pins there to mark my waist I also took my measuring tape to measure the curve to see if it's actually seven inches and if it is great next I'm going to mark it with my marking chalk so since the pins are in place I'm going to mark that up once I'm finished marking my waistline I'm going to come up a half an inch to cut my waistline out and here's the circle that came off to the waistline I'm going to keep that for later on in the video so here you have to decide how long you want your skirt to be I want it to be the full length of how much I can get it out of this box or whatever measurements that I got from the waist line to the edge is what I'm going to graduate throughout the whole pattern so I'm going to follow it at the waist line and take it all the way around and then place my mark and cut out the skirt now you should have a skirt here here I refold it on the side just to make sure that both ends are even whatever excess that's hanging from the edge I'm going to trim away and then open it up and it's going to be like a full circle but instead I'm going to cut it in half again so I can have one that's cut on the fold and then I'm going to cut the other skirt on the fold again so I can have two portions of my back and one in the front so this is the front portion of my skirt I'm going to cut it again for the other one and I have two pieces for my back portion so a total of three pieces now I did the same thing all over again about nine inches long and created two more shorter circle skirts and that will be a overlay part here is the waist of the little circle that will cut out at the waistline I'm going to use this as a stencil so I found the cardboard and just retrace to that little piece and this sense is going to be used as the scalloped edge on the bottom of my skirts so here I'm taking my marking chalk and on the wrong side of the fabric I'm going to go and just start marking the edge to give me the scalloped shape be as neat as possible and once you have all of it marked up it will look like this and then you want to go ahead and cut it out now once you complete with that you want to go ahead and do the same things for all other pieces here I did it for the upper part of the skirt now I decided that I wanted to bind my edge you can do this this is optional I took the binding and I added at the bottom just to give me a more contrast clean look you can do this if you like if you don't you can leave it raw as you've seen before so now I'm going to sew the side seams of the panels of the skirt and that was the top part of the skirt and the bottom part of the skirt which is the longer part and I'm going to sew up the side seams and once that's complete now it's time for me to layer the other piece on top which is like a peplum type skirt circle part and then I'm going to add and connect my bodice to the skirt now so here I'm pinning all three pieces together and getting them ready to be stitched together so here you see me stitching it in place and voila is complete so this is what it is right now now it's time for me to insert my zipper I'm inserting a invisible zipper and right now the back is separated I like to do that so I can align the zipper before I close the back seen here is the zipper installed and I'm going to close the back seam so right now I'm going to cut out my lining which I place my patterns on the stretch lining fabric and put everything together so this is what it looks like on the inside and this is what it looks like on the outside so here you can see that I put the hanger loops at the side seam and I also put this elastic rubber trim on the inside and this trim is to help hold the bodice against the skin so it won't be gliding down or falling down on your on your body when you wear it and now I'm going to go and Stitch the seam allowance so I can create a casing for my boning so here as you can see it's stitched and now I prepared my boning to add on to add in the casing of the bodice so here now I'm going to connect it at the neckline I'm going to sew it all the way down and then once it's finished stitched I'm going to come in at the neckline at the centre front where it curves and kind of slash into the fabric so I can ease that curve so it can help create a nice curve when I turn it back and here before I close my lining I'm going to push all seam allowance towards the lining and sew a top stitch of 1/8 of an inch on top of the lining so everything to stay down once that's complete it would look like this and then I'm going to iron the neckline down and then your dress is complete once you close your lining and you're ready to wear and that is all for this video I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and if you new to this channel please subscribe for more videos like this also I do share high-end sewing tutorials and Couture level works on my patreon head over there to learn more and become a subscriber thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in the next video bye guys