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Quite an undertaking if not very experienced with sewing...
The pattern instructions should step you through the process--just follow it chronologically.
There are multiple web sites that will help with the process as well. Generally, match & pin together the bodice front and bodice side for both right & left side. Then match & pin together bodice back and bodice side for both right & left side. Then match & pin front to back shoulder (both right & left side) and stitch. Match the bodice backs & bodice fronts, and stitch (both sides). (Since it is a girl's pattern, there are probably no bust darts to deal with.) Sew the skirt pieces together (front to back), then gather the skirt waist. Match pattern marks of skirt waist to bodice waist and stitch. Add zipper. Then finish neckline and armholes and then hem skirt.
Not knowing what item you are sewing, just a guess. Does the body need to be gathered to fit the yoke? You'll have to gather it up until the body piece is the same length as the yoke.
Usually with a wrap dress, you join front triangular pieces to bodice back at shoulders and side seams (often leaving a slit open in one side seam to pull the tie through). Then stay stitch neck and front edges to prevent stretching. Then neaten neck edges turn and stitch, or attach a facing. Probably if this pattern has a facing then you may need to attach skirt to waist and also attach the tie ends to the front edge before facing is attached. So when you turn facing to inside you will have the tie end in position at the point of the bodice/skirt seam on both sides of the dress.
When I don't understand instructions, I look at the instructional images. Turn your fabric just like the picture. It helps to understand what they are telling you. Make sure you understand their way of noting back and front of fabric. I have been sewing for 43 years and I still do that. I think the people writing the instructions don't actually sew.
hi, have the machine set at the longest straight stitch length, usually 4 or 5. Then sew 2 rows of stitches side by side without reversing at either end. remember to always pull the bobbin threads up to gather and not the top one.
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