The Lottie Dress is a great wardrobe staple, with a variety of options for sleeves and length, as well as optional pockets. This pattern includes lots of garment sewing techniques, including bust darts, patch pockets, facings and interfacing, understitching, and topstitching. We'll choose our size, cut our fabric, and sew and finish our seams. Students should be comfortable independently setting up and sewing by machine.

Instructor: Erin West

Materials:

Pattern- The Lottie Dress from Christine Haynes

Fabric- Prewashed lightweight to midweight woven fabric for your size (2.5-3.5 yds). Pattern suggests fabric with some drape, like woven cottons, linen or rayon if you feel adventurous.

Coordinating thread

Notions- .5 yd of lightweight woven interfacing (like Shapeflex Lightweight)

Fresh machine needle (Universal, 80/12 is a good weight)

We have all basic sewing supplies in the classroom, but you may want to bring your own sewing kit (scissors, pins, seam ripper, marking tools) for convenience.

Bring your own working sewing machine, or rent one of ours.