Wedding planning is hard enough, but finding a dress that all of your bridesmaids love can seem impossible! Meet Mood’s latest free pattern, The Rhodes Dress, which allows your bridesmaids to customize their dress to match their own unique style. Two overlong ties and an optional bandeau allow for plenty of stylish options. Prefer a plunging V-neck, a stately strapless top, or an off-the-shoulder look? The Rhodes Dress does it all. Plus, stretchy fabric and a lack of closures makes it an adaptive pattern perfect for those with changing bodies for any reason, including pregnancy, post partum, or endometriosis, among others. Make a few for your besties on your wedding day; and hey, why not make one for yourself for a go-to summer maxi or goddess-inspired maternity shoot?
Purchase Materials Used Below:
- 5-6 yards Cyrus Dark Mauve Premium Ultra-Soft Rayon Jersey
- 1 yard White Elastic – 0.25″
- MDF309 – The Rhodes Infinity Dress Sewing Pattern (free download below!)
Alternative Recommended Fabrics:
1. If using the optional bandeau, attach the front and back pieces at the side seams. This can be done using a serger, or a regular zig-zag or overlock stitch on your home sewing machine.
2. Cut a piece of elastic to 1″ less than your overbust measurement. (This is where the top of the bandeau would sit, not at the full bust point.)
3. Pin and stitch the elastic evenly along the face at the top edge of the bandeau.
4. Fold the top edge of your bandeau down and stitch the elastic again along the inside, stretching slightly as you sew.
5. Create your waistband by sewing up the side seams and folding the band downward in half.
6. Pin along the bottom edge of your bandeau. Note: For some extra stability, you could add some wide no-roll elastic into the waistband, if desired.
7. Hem three edges of your infinity ties with a rolled hem, leaving one of the short edges raw.
8. Fold the raw edge in half and pin them to the waistband with the folds at the center front.
9. Attach the front and back skirt panels at the side seams. Tip: You can easily add some inseam pockets here first!
10. Attach the skirt to the waistband of your bodice before hemming.
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Lover from China. Thank you very much. Best wish.
Que bello ❤️
Vielen Dank für das SM sogar in grosen Größen. Ich werde es für meine 2 Töchter und mich nähen . Vielen dank
From Germany
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Thank you
Thank you so much for the pattern. Will be making bridesmaids dresses from your pattern
Love this can I turn it into a swimsuit,which swimsuit pattern do you think is best to use it with?
Hi Darlene, we’re sorry for the delay in responding to your question! We get dozens of comments and questions each day, and so many questions get buried and, unfortunately, unanswered. We are now focusing user support on patterns 2 years and newer. We hope this will prevent questions on our more current patterns from going unanswered. Although this is late, we wanted to respond in case anyone else has the same question: You can turn this into a swimsuit! I would recommend the bottom from the Marlowe Swimsuit!
Brilliant. I am beginning this now. I’m just going to print out the pattern pages for the bandeau and waistband. I’ll just measure the fabric pieces for the skirt and straps, to save time printing/taping. Hope this goes okay! Wish me luck.
Hi there, I absolutely love all of MOOD’S patterns but I really struggle to follow written instructions with my ADHD. Are there any video versions to follow the instructions with? Thank you so much! Love your work!
Hi Erin, we’re sorry for the delay in responding to your question! We get dozens of comments and questions each day, and so many questions get buried and, unfortunately, unanswered. We are now focusing user support on patterns 2 years and newer. We hope this will prevent questions on our more current patterns from going unanswered. Although this is late, we wanted to respond in case anyone else has the same question: unfortunately we don’t have video versions of our free patterns at this time 🙁
I haven’t begun the project yet, but I plan to make this to wear on my 21st birthday! If I remember to, I’ll come back here with an update on how it went 😀
Hi Kristina! Happy early birthday and happy sewing! 🙂
Update: I finished the dress!! My birthday was last Sunday and I’m planning to wear it on my birthday trip next week. I altered a few things like the length (cropped it to be a bit above my knees since I’m going to Vegas and I don’t want my dress to be dragging on the ground), plus I sewed a zipper into the side! Some tips for anyone else wanting to try this pattern out:
1. If you aren’t using stretchy fabric, make sure to use choose a size from the finished product graph, not the body measurements graph!
2. A rolled hem foot will make hemming the edges a lot faster, but be sure to practice with it lots before jumping into the actual product!
3. Speaking of skirts, if you want to crop it, do it after you put everything together! That way, you can put the dress on first and have a more accurate idea of how short you want it to be, When you cut, be sure to cut a little more than you want to give yourself more room for error.
4. It may be tempting to sit on the floor and cut everything out that way. DO NOT DO THAT. Trust me. Your back will hurt and you will wish you just cleared out a table and cut your pieces out on there instead.
Anyways the dress turned out amazing!! I would definitely recommend it for people who are new at sewing and want to try out something a bit more complex but not too complicated!
Hi, I’m a newbie so I’m having a hard time with the instructions. Is the bandeau made with pieces B and D from the pattern? Thanks in advance
Hi Yaiza, yes the bandeau is made with pieces B & D 🙂