 Hi you guys, welcome to the Sew Along for the Seamwork Frankie Dress. I am Lindsey, the host here at Inside the Hymn, and I am happy to walk you through how to make this really, really super cute dress. In this video, we're gonna be, we're gonna be pretty much preparing the bodice. Let's get into it. Okay, so before we go and base the bottom, I'm gonna go ahead and pin the yoke in place. So this is going to take one of our yoke pieces. We are gonna place it right sides up. The bodice goes right side down. So these two things are right sides together. Now, again, your outer seams match. The one in the arm side, it goes one to one, or it goes right on the edge. This facing, where the facing seam is, that is actually going to go inside of the yoke by 3 eighths of an inch. Now, we do our gathering and pin at the notches. How we're folding it, we had to do the gathers first and then fold it back. Otherwise, you won't be able to get in here to get your gathering done evenly. Okay, so we've got that one. Repeat for the other shoulder. Base this down. Okay, similar to how we did for the midriff piece, we are going to turn one yoke. The yoke that's attached is going to be right sides together with the bodice. The other yoke is going to go onto the table right side up. This whole thing, the whole bodice piece gets laid on top so that the yoke pieces are sandwiching the bodice piece inside. So it should be inner yoke, it should be bodice, and it should be outer yoke. So, pin these matching raw edges and notches, and now you can officially sew this in place. We're actually going to be stitching and then pivoting, coming around stitching all of this and then pivoting again. So you want to make sure you've got your centers also matched. All right, to my machine. All right, we are going to trim and grade again. The one closest to the body is the facing piece, so I'm going to trim those first and then this one by a little bit less. Then on your yoke, where there's the most curves, that's where you want to clip or notch. All right, easy peasy. So now you're just going to take this, turn it all right side out, and you're going to press the neck edge, and the shoulder seems really well, and then we'll be moving on to the back. All right, for the back piece, we are just going to be sewing in our darts. So if you haven't already, you want to mark your dart lines, your dart legs. I don't know if you can see mine or not, but there's one here, and it comes down here. Lord, I can barely see it. In order to sew your dart, we are going to take a pin, and we are going to put that through a bottom leg. We're going to pull it up through the other bottom, the other leg, and then we're going to move our pin around to make sure the pin is perpendicular, I'm sorry, parallel to the table. That way you know it's going through one dart leg into the other one perfectly even. Now I'll go up to my point, which is right here, put a pin in there, and then for the in-between parts, I do the same thing as I did down here. I'm going to pin through one leg, and then I'm going to peek on the other side and make sure that it's matching up with that other leg. So it's going through the chalk line there and there, so now I can finish pinning, and then as I come up, I'll start pinning out here, and then then put it in on the underside back dart leg, and then schmoosh as I need. So one dart leg and then the other one, same thing here. I'll come, I'll start way out in the, within the piece, and then make sure that it goes up and through both dart legs. Then you're going to give this a light press, just along here, lightly press that, and then when you go to sew your dart, everything is in place and nothing should be shifting around. Back stitch here, and then pull off a long tail here and tie this into a knot, and do that to both darts. All right, another trick that works especially well on lightweight fabrics for darts is as you get close to the point, maybe an inch, inch and a half away, you're going to reduce your stitch length. So I'm going to pin mine down to two, and then come off the edge like that, and that's just going to ensure that at the point everything is very, very fine, and that will give you less of a pucker. Let me show you. So when we open this up at the point of the dart, no pucker. Okay, so then you're going to press this toward the center of the back, and same with the other one. Okay, so you're going to be laying piece B, your back piece, face up. My darts are right here, and these are going to be the little arm size. This is the upper back. Okay, this is the part that gets attached to the yoke. Then you're going to take your outer yoke piece, which if you're looking at your bodice, right, if you're looking at the yokes, it's the one that is on the outside. That is going to get placed right sides together with the back piece. So these two things get lined up just like this, and so there's no easing or gathering or anything. Okay, press the seam that you just sewed toward the yoke. Place your garment right side up. So what you have is back, outer yoke, inner yoke, inner yokes right here peeking through, and then front. You're going to take the front of the bodice, and you're going to start to roll it, just like you would a burrito or an egg roll, I guess, rolling, rolling, rolling, okay, until it's all rolled up to the shoulder seams. Then you're going to take the back, and you're going to roll the back. All right, so at this point this is our back, this is our outer yoke, this is our front, this is our inner yoke, okay. This comes to here. So now everything's resting on the outer yoke. We have the seam that you just sewed that's the back and the outer yoke together. You're going to take the inner yoke, and that's going to go on top of all of this. So we have the outer yoke that touches the table, the back is in the middle, and the inner yoke is on top. And your yokes should be right sides together, your back should be wrong side up. Okay, so if you need to see that again, rewind the video. But basically we're just sandwiching the back within the yoke raw edges. All right, so this is essentially the moment of truth where you determine if you did this right. You're going to reach through here, and you're going to pull everything out through one of the armholes. So if you did it right, you will have this, where it's the back, right side up, it's the yoke, both yoke pieces, and the bodice. That's what the outside looks like. This is what the inside looks like. You have your back, both yoke pieces. You can see that this is in case it's beautiful, as are these seams here. And we don't have to do a single lick of hand stitching. So that's the yoke, and then the bodice, and then the midriff. All right, so you're going to give this a really good press. And our bodice is almost done. But yeah, go ahead and finish up your front, and I'll meet you back here for the next video. So let's keep the momentum going, and we'll start working on the bottom half of our dress.