Yellow shoulder-tie maxi
digital review passed · not sewnA low curved waist seam and a skirt gathered at the sides, flat in the middle. Early drafts lost both; the engine learned zoned gathering.
What was wrong
What makes this dress itself is a long fitted bodice that ends in a low seam dipping at the centre front, and a wide skirt gathered at the sides but flat in the middle. Early drafts put the waist seam straight and high and gathered the skirt evenly all round, so they described a different dress. Two attempts were rejected for this.
The shared fix
The shared engine now lengthens the bodice, splits it along the low curve and attaches the skirt to that edge. Gathering became a zoned distribution: flat at the centre, full at the sides. The same distribution drives the drawing, the matching marks on the pattern and the sewing guide, so all three tell the same story.
Download
Size EU36 sample. Body measurements: bust 84 cm, waist 66 cm, hip 90 cm.
The overview shows every piece with seam allowance and grain lines. It is not tiled for printing; the printable PDF package for this dress is not published yet.
Before you cut
Not sewn or fitted. The reading was corrected by hand. The back is not visible in the photo: the centre-back zip and seam are a proposed closure. The waist-to-hip line is a little sharper than in the photo.