An A-line dress with colour blocking

This is not strictly the best title for this post,, but I wasn't sure quite what to call it. In this post, I'm going to give you some alternative ideas to make an simple A-line pattern more interesting, by splitting the pattern in various ways. There are a number of different ways you can do this, but the principles are the same.

Gathered bottom frill on A line dress

The simplest way to add interest (and the all-important 'spin') to a dress is to add a frill. This post looks at adding a gathered frill. A later post covers adding a curved frill, or layers of frills. In these posts, I am mainly assuming a woven fabric, but you can use a knit if you prefer and adapt the pattern. I'll have another post on this as well in due course.