hello friends, i received a lot of requests on kaftan dress cutting and stitching
today m going to teach you cutting and stitching of simple kaftan
it is loosely top like dress
the measurement is like this
length 38 inch
shoulder length 7 inch
chest/breast 33 inch
waist length 13.5 inch
waist 30 inch
hip length 21 inch
hips 34 inch
length of front neck 4 inch
length of back neck 4 inch
width of neck 7 inch
we make it very loose so neither we take shoulder length
nor we take length of sleeves
this is the cloth, first fold it lengthwise then width wise like this in 4 layers
now cut length + 1 inch cloth from the closed part
length is 38 +1 inch=39, mark it and cut it because there is no shoulder length sewing so we only need 1 inch
for folding from the bottom width of kaftan
from same closed part, make front neck and back neck
neck width is 7, half of it makes 3.5 but m taking little less than 3.5 for sewing of slant strips
in length take 4 inch (length of front and back neck) make a box and cut it in a curve manner
take 1/4 of chest below the neck box and mark it, i.e 1/4 of 33 is 8.25
and now from top of closed part take shoulder length + 1 inch, mark it to the chest mark(intersecting marks)
from top take waist length and mark it 0.5 inch extra i.e 14 + 0.5=14.5
and mark hip length + 0.5 inch i.e 21+0.5=21.5 inch
on waist length mark 1/4 of waist i.e 30/4=7.5 inch
on hip length mark 1/4 of hips i.e 34/4 =8.5 inch and join the chest, waist, hips marks upto total length of kaftan
by hand curving
the bottom width must be 3-4 inch more than the hips, m taking 11 inch as hips as 8.5 inch
making "A" mark join from hips to bottom width
now cut a little bit less than mark line of neck region so that the strips can be sewed smoothly
any other cutting is never neccessary
this is the simple kaftan drafting and cutting after this i'll teach you stitching of kaftan dress
this is the cut neck part and we already made slant strips(how to make slant strips i told you earlier)
stitch slant strips on the right side around the neck
but fold slant strip like this and then sew it to the neck part, after sewing mark small cuts(make sure sewing doesn't come in between)
cut slant strip when it overlaps the neck part at one end, fold it inside like we do in back neck sewing & sew it
after this sewing fold it one more time inside and hand-stitch it
after this, fold(double fold) the bottom width of kaftan to the wrong side and sew it
mark drafting line on the both sides and sew this line on right side taking wrong side inwards
from bottom width to shoulder length mark do firm stitching on both sides
this is our ready kaftan dress, after completing this i'll upload an image
in next video i'll teach you a new cutting/ stitching in an easy way..thank you :)