POPPY DRESS • Pattern
By Grainline Studio, The Poppy Dress is a paper sewing pattern.
Garment Details: The Poppy Dress is a versatile dress sewing pattern that adapts to every season and occasion. This playful yet polished design features a fitted shoulder line that flows into a relaxed, easy silhouette thanks to beautifully tiered gathers in two lengths.
Choose your perfect fit: The midi length offers contemporary elegance perfect for work or dinner out, while the shorter version creates a fun, movement-friendly dress ideal for weekend adventures or casual gatherings.
Make it uniquely yours with two sleeve options - choose short sleeves for warm weather ease or long sleeves gently gathered into cuffs for cooler days and a more polished look. The classic band collar and button placket give you that crisp, put-together style that works from season to season.
Sizing: This is a multi-size pattern, including sizes US 0-18 or 14-32. Sizing chart can be found here. For finished garment measurements and fabric requirements please refer to chart provided in the images.
Fabric Suggestions: This dress pattern transforms with your fabric choices. Sew it up in cozy flannel for comfortable winter days, choose breezy cotton lawn for picnic-perfect summer wear, or select a special glittery lamé when you want to make a statement at your next celebration. The relaxed fit through the body makes it comfortable in any fabric weight. Main fabric recommendations: Light to mid-weight woven fabrics such as cotton lawns and voiles; rayon, viscose and rayon or viscose blends; linen, and linen blends. Extra fabric may be needed to match plaids, stripes, and directional prints.
Trims required: Matching thread, View A: 6 - ⅜" buttons, View B: 8 - ⅜" buttons, View C: 6 - ⅜" buttons & View D: 8 - ⅜" buttons
Skill Level: Intermediate.
Perfect your technique with this intermediate sewing pattern that teaches essential skills including setting sleeves with precision and ease, creating clean button plackets, mastering continuous plackets, attaching tailored cuffs, constructing a band collar, and achieving even gathers. Each step builds your confidence while creating a dress you'll reach for again and again.
Techniques you'll master: sewing straight seams, setting sleeves, creating a button placket, continuous plackets, attaching cuffs, adding a band collar, gathering, inserting buttons & buttonholes, and basic hemming.
An ideal project for sewers ready to tackle collars and plackets while creating a wardrobe staple that transitions effortlessly from casual to dressed-up.
Seam allowances are included in the pattern.
This product is a pre-printed paper pattern. You will receive an instruction booklet and tissue pattern tucked inside a paper envelope. Pattern is printed in the USA on recycled paper with soy-based inks.
Photo credits: Grainline Studio