{"id":72974,"date":"2019-10-28T09:33:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T13:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/?p=72974"},"modified":"2019-10-22T16:57:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T20:57:31","slug":"how-to-color-block-the-gelato-dress-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2019\/10\/how-to-color-block-the-gelato-dress-pattern.html","title":{"rendered":"how to color block the gelato dress pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shelley, our regular contributor from Down Under, is back on the blog today to show us her color blocked dress sewn using the Gelato Blouse and Dress<\/a> pattern. Here she is with her photo-illustrated tutorial on how to color block this (or any) pattern.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n

I always love to read Liesl\u2019s Weekend Links<\/a> posts here on the Oliver + S blog. Most of the time I just dream about being able to bake that pie, or decorate my mantle like that for the holiday. But when Liesl inspires me with a dress I really (really) like, I don\u2019t just dream about it. I make it!<\/p>\n

\"Tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n

Do you remember the color blocked dress Liesl showed us back at the start of summer<\/a>?<\/p>\n

I fell hard for that dress, and I could see, with the Gelato pattern, how easy it would be.<\/p>\n

First up, I made the Gelato blouse to check the fit. I wasn\u2019t sure that the top with its ruffles would be my style, but I have found I love wearing this top. Made up in a drapey rayon, it feels fantastic and isn\u2019t the frilly top I\u2019d feared. I fell between sizes but went down to the lower size as I wanted it fitted through the shoulders and bust to make up for the looseness below.<\/p>\n

\"Tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n

For the dress, I found a fabric that was new to me: Tencel linen. What a find! It combines everything that\u2019s great about linen without the wrinkles and stiffness. Plus, you get all the lovely drape and slight suede hand of the Tencel without that ’80s fluid jeans look! My fabric shop<\/a> had the white and the gorgeous rust brown colors in stock, and once I showed them my inspiration picture they hunted down the steel blue just for me!<\/p>\n

So how did the Gelato Dress pattern become this dress?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all down to some very simple pattern manipulation in the style of the Building Block Dress Book<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I started by tracing off my front and back pattern pieces so that they were flat, rather than cut on the fold. This was easy to do with the back pattern piece too, as it has a clearly marked center back line.<\/p>\n

\"Tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n

I used the cutting line for the blouse pattern to be the dropped waist for my skirt at the back. Using the same reference line on the front pattern piece, I drew the pattern cutting lines to give me an off-center, above-the-waist apex where the three fabrics would meet.<\/p>\n

\"Tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I could simply chop my pattern into pieces. I needed to slow down and have a good think at this point in order to make sure that I would know which piece was the left and which the right and front versus back.\u2026 I labelled all the pattern pieces so that I could cut them from a single layer of fabric right side up.<\/p>\n

\"Tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n

When I went to cut the fabric, I needed to add my \u00bd\u201d seam allowance along all the edges where my pattern had been separated. I also used the full width of my fabric and gave my skirt pieces some gathering, and I added lots of length at the hem just by continuing the skirt\u2019s side lines to be ankle length.<\/p>\n

The inspiration dress has a much fuller skirt than my dress, but with the A-line shape of the top part of the Gelato Dress I was already getting lots of volume and didn\u2019t think I\u2019d need much more. Plus, I\u2019d only bought myself one skirt length of the rust brown fabric.<\/p>\n

\"Tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n

To construct the dress, I simply needed to sew the bodice pieces together, and then follow the pattern\u2019s instructions.<\/p>\n

To help sew the curves of the bodice pieces, I stay-stitched just inside the \u00bd\u201d seam allowance. Then, by laying the pattern pieces flat with the stitching of the left and right sides overlapping, I could cut myself some notches in the seam allowances. That way, once I turned the fabrics right sides together, the opposing curves would have some points where I knew they needed to line up.<\/p>\n

\"Tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n

Once the bodice was constructed, I sewed the skirt\u2019s sides seams and then gathered it to fit the bodice. I kept the front gathering away from the center section to try and avoid giving the skirt a ballooning look over my belly!<\/p>\n

Liesl\u2019s inspiration post was back at the start of the northern hemisphere summer. I\u2019ve just finished my dress before the Australian summer kicks off, and I think it\u2019s going to get lots of wear.<\/p>\n

\"Tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks for that tutorial, Shelley! And how do you feel about color blocking? Are there any patterns you’d like to try the technique on?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Learn how to color block the Gelato Blouse and Dress pattern–or any pattern–with this photo tutorial. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20808,140],"class_list":["post-72974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-gelato","tag-tutorial"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/color-blocked-gelato-hero-image.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jZS5-iZ0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":70228,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2019\/06\/border-print-gelato-dress.html","url_meta":{"origin":72974,"position":0},"title":"border print gelato dress","author":"Rachel Le Grand","date":"June 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"As part of our Advisors Circle, Lisa is here to share her Liesl + Co. 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