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I’m breaking this down to be super simple changes you can make to the Milicent Dress to create tie shoulders and a ruffle hem. First up tie shoulders

Part 1.

1. Don’t cut out the straps provided in the pattern we are going to create wider longer ones.
2. on a piece of paper draw a rectangle 10cm wide x 70cm
3. cut x 4 out of your main fabric
4. cut x 4 out of iron in interfacing
5. iron interfacing onto wrong side of fabric

Part 2.

1. Fold in half lengthwise
2. Press
3. stitch around outside edge leaving one narrow edge open
4. clip corners
5. turn right side out

Insert straps into garment as per regular instructions.

For the Ruffle Skirt

Part 1.

1. take you skirt pattern piece, draw a line on where you want to shorten it to. I’m only 5 foot tall so my skirt was reduced to 38cm including seam allowance.
2. fold or cut your main pattern piece to that length
3. decide on the height of your ruffle. Again I’m short but my ruffle is a finished height of 25cm. With seam allowance and hem it is 28cm high.
4. Fold your fabric right sides together, place your skirt pattern pieces
5. using chalk and a ruler mark in the ruffle height, go across the full width of your fabric for extra fullness

Part 2.

1. Cut out your pieces
2. Assemble the top portion of your skirt (including pockets) as per the instructions in your pattern.
3. Run 2 lines of gathering stitch along the top edge of each ruffle
4. pull stitches to create gathers until it is the same width as the lower edge of your upper skirt
5. sew side seams of ruffles, finish edges

Part 3.

1. right sides together pin and then stitch ruffle to upper skirt. Remove gathering stitches
2. Hem lower ruffle then proceed with remainder of pattern instructions