Zanzibar Top and Dress Pattern

3 shapes: dress, top or nightdress
3 lengths: dress above the knee, blouse, crop top
Thin shoulder straps or shoulder straps to tie (wider as an option).
Front and back can be interchanged for multiple versions.
Optional belted straight dress or with skirt and elasticized casing.
Lined top yoke and gathered bottom.
Long or short elasticated crop top.
Optional buttoned or buttonless front.
Optional small ruffles at the armhole.
Can be worn over a tee-shirt.
Outfit to be made in woven or jersey fabric depending on the look chosen.

Sewing level: easy to intermediate

What you will practice with this sewing pattern:  gathering panels, assembling a button placket, lining a yoke, assembling a casing for the elastic waist option, assembling ruffles and bias binding straps.

Pattern comes in both French and English. A full video tutorial is also available on Youtube in French with English subtitles.

Size range :  32-52 (French sizes); Roughly US sizes 0-20, compare your measurements with the size chart to confirm size.

Also available in child sizing

Material suggestions:

• Woven : cotton (poplin, batiste), viscose and viscose crepe, chambray, fine denim, soft linen, seersucker, double gauze.
  

• Jersey knit (cotton, viscose cotton ...)