 Hi you guys welcome back to the royal wedding so long This is week four where we are going to be making The bodice of views C and D I've got my pattern pieces all laid out on my fabric For everything except for the front bodice pieces because they are cut on The single on a single layer of fabric because there's one for the left and one for the right So I just wanted to show you how I laid out my pattern pieces here mostly I followed the layout Suggestions on the pattern instructions, but since I am not making the sleeved version I Obviously did not have a sleeve to cut out so Instead of placing the sleeve right here at piece 11 Okay, so yeah, that was my fire alarm Everything is fine. They were just doing some testing. I guess. I don't know anyways back at it. So What I was saying is that since I'm not making the sleeve Obviously, I don't need to cut out the sleeve pattern piece number 11 So what I did was is I put nine here six here seven here And then in this area is where I moved the bodice so that I didn't have to do this like funky half-fold on this section So I put the bodice here and then I moved eight to go this way and then ten is right in here So it's all still in like a nice little rectangle leaving me plenty of space for 14 and 13, but I just have the Pocket piece on here and the back piece on here. Also, I just wanted to say typically I cut two of the pockets out of the Fashion fabric and then two of the pockets out of the lining fabric. So when we get down here to the lining I'll add a set of pockets to this somewhere. I just don't think the pockets need to be All four out of the fashion fabric. So I just don't do it that way myself But anyway, so I have this all cut it or I have this all laid out Like I explained here's kind of where you can see the changes I made with adding the pocket Where the skirt is positioned again? Paying attention to that kind of strange Green line and then I moved the back bodice piece there and then Everything else is as the layout suggests All right, so I've got my bodice pieces pinned onto my fabric and I just wanted to show you that well Don't be alarmed. This is the selvedge edge when I laid it on a single layer. It was easier for me to lay it Longways with the selvedge edge on each end So I don't think that I have just like given up on following the grain line not true But I did want to point out it's very little The instructions do say that when you're cutting on a single layer Pin the pattern on the right side of the fabric on some other patterns They will indicate right side and wrong side of the fabric for the Cutting layouts as well, but this one does not follow that because the If the fabric is white then that's supposed to indicate the wrong side So it can be a little bit confusing, but I went and found this little tidbit here which indicates that Your fabric should be facing right up right side up and then your pattern piece should also be facing Right up as well. If you did this wrong you would have The Right side would be the left and the left side would be the right So it's not like a end of the world kind of thing. You could definitely make it work Your bodice would just cross over backwards Um, maybe that matters. Maybe that doesn't but to prevent that from happening and to get a perfectly looking Garments just like the pattern envelope place your fabric right side up All right, so our bodice piece with the pleats does have a whole bunch of Pattern markings that we need to trace to the wrong side of the fabric There are a few ways to do this the way that I find to be simplest is to get some of this Carbon paper Comes in different colors. I think mine came with yellow blue and white Maybe and then they also come with these little tracing wheels So we have one that serrated and then you also have one that is smooth And basically you just lay the carbon paper underneath the pattern or underneath the fabric and then line up your Marking tool and you just follow the line all the way down. I'm gonna try and do this one-handed, but it's sliding around a little bit Anyways, and so whenever you get done and you flip your fabric over you have all of your lines Marked onto the wrong side of your fabric nice and neatly So that's how I'm going to do that for these little pleat Lines. I've also done the same thing on the skirt So you'll see similar instructions there for that and then when we get over to the bodice left I'll also do that again for the What's it called a dart? Also again for the dirt and then I like to trace over the Center front lines you definitely don't have to but I like to use those as a way to just make sure that my bodice is Lined up as the pattern designer intended Okay, so now we are going to be cutting out our interfacing I think that the midriffs are pretty self-explanatory. You have the midriff back Not cut on the fold then you have the midriff front and usually Instead of like trying to finagle folding this in half I just use the fabric piece to cut out the interfacing for the For a folded piece. So that's the midriff front and then here's my upper Back bodice back that you can't really see it But there is one traced and then this is mirror image of that But the important part here is the interfacing pieces for the Bodices because we have two different pieces one left one right for the bodice You have to pay very close attention to how you cut out the interfacing because you don't want to cut this out with the glue Facing the wrong way So you have your right front interfacing piece, which is piece number 16 face up on The glue side of the interfacing So the glue is face up for all of these glue is face up Right front piece is face up and left front piece is face down So if you want to check my work, you just place your interfacing right side or the glue side up Then you lay your fabric on to it. It doesn't have to be like very precise because this is not actually where you're gonna lay your interfacing piece, but then you lay it on there and you go. No, that's not the right way Is this the right way? No, and then you go. Oh, okay There's the shoulder piece up top and matches perfectly And I need it to be glued to the wrong side of the fabric So I need it to go just like this boop and I move it over just like that Same thing with the left piece. You take it. That's the back take the left piece and you throw it on here and With the interfacing glue side up and then you take your left interfacing piece and You lay it down with the shoulder seam and you're like, no, that doesn't match the curve But when you flip it over it does match the curve So that's how you know that This piece goes like this boop and you just move it over and take away all of your Pieces and then you move them into the right position Double-check the grain line so one and so forth. You know the drill I'm also going to cut away the seam allowances of the interfacing so that they will fit within the seam allowances of The garment and not create more bulk there You heard you heard me talk about that if you watched the last bodice video same story here So I'm gonna go cut out all this interfacing and I'll be back Okay, so after we get our interfacing and here to all of our bodice pieces and the midriff pieces The next step is to make the beautiful pleats in our right bodice piece so if you remember we Traced off all of those pattern markings. You might have a hard time seeing them on the camera But they're there I can see them all and the easiest way to do this is you're just going to pinch So there's a set here. There's a set here and there's a set here Don't forget the one that's like hiding underneath your interfacing if you have thicker interfacing than me You might not be able to see it and you need to retrace it But so you take the first set and you just pinch them together like so and you're gonna kind of follow this little V that is cut out you want to take some pins and you're going to mark through the end of one and Make sure that it lines up with the end of the other one and if it does pop your pin in and I'm going to put maybe I don't know three in here and again Put it through the line on this side and make sure that it lines up with the line on this side if everything is Lined up properly it should and Then do one final one. You can see the tail wants to slide away here. So do one again at the bottom Again putting a pin through the line and that is off pin through the line here and then Let's see there we go so Like so and then we'll just go vertical with this one And so when you go to your machine You're gonna sew from here all the way to the end back stitching To lock that into place and then you're gonna do it two more times once for this group of pleats and then once for this Group of pleats and then we'll have our pleated bodice. All right, isn't that beautiful got all the pleats done You end up pressing the pleats on the inside you press the pleats toward the side seam And then you put in a little basting stitch down here to hold it all in place But it looks so good. Ah, I love doing pleats and darts because it finally starts to give two-dimensional piece Some shape and starts really coming together. Okay, so the next step is for us to actually attach the Back piece so you need to find the one that matches up to your Bodice which that one didn't I'm just trying to match the shoulder and armhole arm side Okay, so here it is. So now you are going to sew the shoulder seam up here as well as the side seam down here, okay? So now we have one complete right bodice for the outside now We are going to move on to the left bodice Which is right here Basically what we need to do for the left bodice piece is put the little dart into This piece we traced it off whenever we were cutting on our fabric. You can also see the interfacing is Adhere it on to here as well. So this is a very similar technique as to how I did the pleats before you just want to pull these two legs together and get them somewhat matched up and then you put your pin through one of the lines and Then push it through the other line So the two lines are going to match up all the way down again I'll probably do about three that were a longer dart. I would do more But I usually do three and then when I get to the tip of the dart. I will just put it Right there at the end just so I know that's where it's ending So we're gonna put this together and then similarly to the right side We are going to take the back bodice piece and attach it At the shoulder seam and at the side seam. Alright So at this point we have our entire upper bodice completed The instructions are going to tell us to go ahead and do the lining for each of these pieces But we are going to postpone that Simply just to try and keep all of the videos of the sew along kind of organized So if you can bear with me and not follow the instructions completely I swear we will have a gorgeous looking garment at the end of this all the same no matter what order we do the Construction so the last part of today's video is going to be just about sewing the midriff together we've already done this in the Bodice view a and b video so you might have seen it already, but if you didn't you just simply take your Midriff pieces and you have to remember that the curved line faces up toward the bodice Once you've got that down then you want to find your Back pieces that have little notches and match the notches to each side seam Like so And this one's over here Like so so you'll have your entire midriff piece completed as well All right, so this is where we are going to stop for today. I think it's looking really adorable We're not going to attach the midriff to the bodice yet because we're going to install the Attach the lining to these pieces first and then sew the lining into this seam So it's nice and beautiful Whenever we go to finish off the insides as well. So yeah, so this is where we're going to stop for today I'm really excited about it. My lemons are making me so happy Let's see so Next week we are going to be doing the skirt. The skirt is the same no matter which view you're doing So follow along with that whether you're doing view a and b or view c and d and then in the week following Is whenever we'll get the lining all attached. I have a bunch of tips and tricks for the lining So you'll want to make sure to watch that before you attach it. So patience is a virtue. We will get there I promise In other royal weddings sew along news be sure to follow the Or join the Facebook group There's a lot of activity going on there now a lot of people have decided on their fabrics and which pattern They're going to use So there's just lots of conversation and questions and it's just kind of a lot of fun to participate in that kind of community And then if you are posting on any of your socials to or about the royal wedding So along be sure to tag it with royal wedding sew along so that we can all see What you guys are doing and how you're progressing and everything else But that's going to do it for week four for me I will see you guys back here next week for week five where we'll make the skirt. Bye