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All About the Bobby Dress

Fabric resources, fitting details, and tutorials to help you build your skills.

Posted in: Patterns • March 31, 2019





Build Your Wardrobe with the Bobby Dress

The Bobby dress is designed to make you feel pretty without sacrificing comfort. This easy-to-wear knit dress features an oversized casing at the waist, a fully lined bodice, flattering V-neck, and a swirly A-line skirt.

Pick a knit fabric that will give you a silhouette you love, like cotton jersey, interlock, ponte, double knit, or rayon and soy blends.












Maya is wearing a size 2 Bobby dress with a broad shoulder adjustment, 2” added to the bodice length, and 4” added to the skirt. Her measurements are 33”, 26”, 36 1/2” and she is 5’10”.



Tutorials to Build Your Skills

Here are some tutorials to build your skills while sewing the Bobby dress.








Learn How to Customize the Bobby Dress







Wondering what to pair with the Bobby dress? Get inspired by Seamwork Style.




This month’s bonus variation offers flutter sleeves for the Bobby dress.




The Seamwork team sewed this month’s patterns! See what fabrics we picked in Staff Makes.


Shop for Fabric

Love the samples in this month’s issue? Here is where we sourced the fabric.





Deadstock French Terry from La Mercerie.




Organic Soy Knit in Chili from The Confident Stitch.


Get the Perfect Fit


Bobby pattern details












Sizes 0 - 16








About the fit


The Bobby dress has negative ease in the bust and is loose-fitted in the hip. The waist features negative ease due to the elastic.






Sizes 18 - 26










About the fit


The Bobby dress has negative ease in the bust and is loose-fitted in the hip. The waist features negative ease due to the elastic.


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