Project 003 Exercise 1: Finished Measurements & Fabric Requirements

In today's post, I'll show you how to calculate the finished circumference of the dress and how to estimate the amount of fabric you'll need to sew it.

Last week, I shared How to Draft a Shirred Babydoll Dress and while we did use numbers, it didn't get too mathy. The drafting relies more on diagrams than formulas. So, if you were dying to stretch your computation muscles a bit more and play around with trigonometry and algebra, then this post is for you.

In today's post, I'll show you how to calculate the finished bust measurement and how to estimate the amount of fabric you'll need to sew your dress.

Update 02/2025: This post is now archived for paid subscribers. If you are interested in this project but don’t want to subscribe, you can purchase a pdf version of this project in my shop.