Maxi Dress Sewing Pattern: Lola Dress
Update your summer wardrobe with The Lola Dress – a maxi dress sewing pattern in UK sizes 6 to 20. Sew your Lola dress as a maxi frock with simple spaghetti straps or elegant off-the-shoulder sleeves.
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The summer months are all about chilled-out picnics in the park, days on the beach, and get-togethers in the garden – and we’ll be wearing swishy maxi frocks for them all! Maxi dresses are as much a summer essential as sunnies and sunscreen, so we’ll be filling up our new-season wardrobe with this issue’s stylish cover star, The Lola Dress. Maxis are perfect for showcasing our favourite prints, especially the on-trend tropicals that are all over the high street right now, and Lola includes two options to make: spaghetti straps with a square neckline, and off-the-shoulder sleeves.
Wondering what that totally tropical fabric is that we’ve used in our main cover version (above?) – it’s Tropicalia Dark rayon fabric from Art Gallery Fabrics’ Esoterra collection.
We’ll be shortening the skirt on our next version of Lola for a midi-length version too – after all, a gal can never have too many dresses, right?
Use our maxi dress sewing pattern then share your finished Lola Dress with us using #simplysewingmag – we’d love to see!
The Lola Dress: digital sewing pattern
This maxi dress sewing pattern is available as a PDF in the Simply Sewing Etsy store.
Sizes: UK sizes 6-20 (US 4-18/Eur 34-38)
Practise your skills:
- Try two strap-styles – spaghetti or off-shoulder
- Sew and hem a maxi-length or A-line skirt
- Insert a zip
- Make and attach a bodice facing
You will need
- Dress A main fabric: 140cm (55in) width fabric x 2.8m (31⁄4yds) for all sizes
- Dress B main fabric: 140cm (55in) width fabric x 3.4m (33⁄4yds) for all sizes
- Dress A Lining fabric: 140cm (55in) width fabric x 50cm (20in)
- Zip: 55cm (22in)
- Matching thread
- Maxi dress sewing pattern
Fabric suggestions:
Lightweight woven fabrics such as cotton, calico, chambray, linen and challis.
Get the maxi dress sewing pattern: in the Simply Sewing pattern shop
Authors
Zoe is Senior Editor of Gathered.how, with over a decade of craft publishing experience under her belt. She's a quilter and sewist who works with the UK’s best-selling craft magazines including Today’s Quilter, Love Patchwork & Quilting, Simply Sewing and The World of Cross Stitching. Zoe loves being immersed in Gathered’s quilting content, tweaking our tutorials and publishing new patterns. Zoe has previously written for radiotimes.com, Simply Knitting and The World of Cross Stitching and was previously Deputy Editor of Papercraft inspirations magazine. She has guest-lectured at Bath Spa University. She’s a keen quilter with 5 projects in progress at any one time and another 12 or so planned.
