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Jumper Dress Pattern for Women
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Jumper Dress Pattern for Women

ByJanel December 13, 2021March 28, 2025

It’s about as simple, basic and easy as a sewing pattern can get. Free pdf to print at home. Free pinafore dress pattern with modest neckline and long armholes. Adult woman/misses size. This is a multi-size pattern I made up several years ago. Nowadays I think I made the sizing more generous than it needs…

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Music-Themed Spiral Skirt
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Music-Themed Spiral Skirt

ByJanel December 5, 2019February 11, 2023

Dramatic black, white and red music-themed fabric chosen by a musician. I only have a couple photos while it was in progress. Hopefully one day I’ll have a photo of it being worn! This was made from the patterns on the spirals page.

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Adult Size Spiral Dress
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Adult Size Spiral Dress

ByJanel September 12, 2019November 24, 2024

Here’s a full length spiral dress for a grown-up woman! …with wolves on it. Long ago, I found a spiral dress at a second hand shop. It was too small for me, but I was so fascinated with those seams going round and round that I bought it anyway. Eventually I decided it was silly…

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Women’s Peasant Dress Pattern
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Women’s Peasant Dress Pattern

ByJanel November 21, 2012June 13, 2025

Free printable peasant dress pattern for adult females. The word for grown up girls is “women”. That’s the right word, not a code for a certain size. Unmarried “misses” aren’t guaranteed to be thin either, unfortunately. Pattern in sizes Sm, Med, Lg and XL. Simple pattern in PDF format for 8.5 x 11 letter size…

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Spiral Skirts and Dresses
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Spiral Skirts and Dresses

ByJanel November 17, 2012March 18, 2025

All patterns are Adobe pdf for free download and printing. They print out onto sheets of 8.5 x 11 printer paper which you tape together then cut out. Be sure they print out at 100% size not “scale to fit” the paper. The skirts can be made any size you need by using whatever number…

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Simple Segment Skirt Pattern Piece
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Simple Segment Skirt Pattern Piece

ByJanel December 13, 2010December 14, 2021

It’s just a basic skirt shape with some lines marked. Years ago I cut something like this out of heavy paper using a string for a compass, and it’s come in handy dozens of times for all kinds of applications. I thought I’d share it in case someone finds it useful. Here it is as…

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Medieval Dress Pattern for Women
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Medieval Dress Pattern for Women

ByJanel December 10, 2010August 5, 2024

This is about as medieval-looking as I need to be, and I’m sharing my pattern here in case it comes in handy for anyone else. I read the instructions about how to cut a medieval t-tunic dress the authentic historical way, but my attempts didn’t come out very well. I would have had to adjust…

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Latest Comments

  1. Janel on Round Knit Dishcloth PatternJune 12, 2025

    Oh, that. I meant the outer edge of the circle / doily to make it bigger, but of course it…

  2. Robbin on Round Knit Dishcloth PatternJune 12, 2025

    In the post right above mine.

  3. Janel on Women’s Peasant Dress PatternJune 9, 2025

    There I just put it back, sorry about the delay.

  4. Janel on Round Knit Dishcloth PatternJune 9, 2025

    I don't see the words "long end" in the post. Where did I say that?

  5. Chelsie knight on Women’s Peasant Dress PatternJune 9, 2025

    I would like to try this peasant dress pattern but when I print the pattern it only prints the top…

  6. Janel on Dress Pattern for Bellybutton BarbieJune 9, 2025

    That is so very kind of you, thanks! It makes me remember right away the several things I've been meaning…

  7. Janel on Women’s Peasant Dress PatternJune 9, 2025

    I took it off to work on it, haven't done that yet but there, I put the original back. Sorry…

  8. Maggie on Women’s Peasant Dress PatternJune 9, 2025

    This dress pattern is exactly what I am looking for, however the PDF currently only has the pattern for the…

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