Add embroidered stitches to the bodice of your next special occasion dress! And when you’re done, why stop there? These full sleeves are a perfect canvas to highlight a favorite embroidery design, like this one from the Radiance Collection.
Click HERE to download printable instructions with additional photos.
Supplies:
- Baby Lock Radiance Embroidery/Sewing Machine
- Design Suite – Radiance Collection
- Simplicity S9964 Pattern, view A
- Fabric & Notions per pattern instructions
- For this project, Ombre Confetti Dot fabric was used from V & Co.
- Baby Lock Stick-Tear, Tear-Away Stabilizer BLT102
- 18 ¼” x 11 5/8” Embroidery frame
- W Embroidery Foot
- Embroidery Thread & Needles
- Water Soluble Marker
- Narrow Zipper Foot ESG-ZF (Optional foot if making custom cording)
- Small Cotton Cording (optional)
- And all the supplies you normally reach for when sewing!
Instructions:
1. Trace around the outside edges of the bodice pattern piece onto fabric using a water-soluble fabric marking pen. Do not cut on the traced lines but cut around with at least one-inch additional seam allowance. Once the embroidery is finished you can cut out the final bodice piece. This way, your pattern piece will be exact and not reduced because of the fabric drawing up during embroidery.
2. At the machine, pull up Menu #6 which has the Utility Embroidery Patterns.
3. Select an embroidery stitch design that you would like to use and then, using the pattern repeat/border key, add additional repetitions of the design and position it to fill the bodice area with as many designs as you like.
4. For more information on how to use the Border Key, please refer to Page 148 in the instruction manual or for a video, watch Bordering on the Edge which can be found in the SEWED video library on www.babylock.com. Once you have the design the way you like, embroider it, changing up the colors of the embroidery thread to match your project.
5. Now, repeat the process with the sleeve pattern pieces, embroidering on the sleeves prior to final cutting of the pattern. For this project, I used the Single Flower Design from the Design Suite – Radiance Collection.
6. Be sure to use the Mirror Image Key so that both flowers are facing the front of the dress.
7. Construct the dress per the pattern instructions.
8. Optional: Corded piping was added between the bodice and the skirt for additional interest.
