Start from a dress block with darts and 8cm wearing ease at bust, 6cm at waist, 4 at hips.
*You can learn our method for drafting perfectly made to measure basic blocks, for choosing wearing ease and for fitting them in our basic blocks course/module 1.

Adjust length to ground, then on back and front:

• draw the new neckline widening it by 7 to 9cm from high shoulder point. Drop 4 to 5cm in center back, add 3cm past center front and draw the neckline, then continue the line blending to original one past hip level (red lines)
• take in 2cm from sides and center back 10cm above knee, then redraw seams on thigh area as the light blue lines
• flare 10 to 15cm in center back at hemline and 5 to 8cm at sides, redraw skirt bottom seams as the purple lines.

On front bodice, widen shoulder dart by 1cm at the new neckline (red line).

On both front and back, draw the raglan slash lines (marked in blue) starting from new necklines 4 to 5cm from shoulder and ending into armholes 6 or 7cm above armpit.

Trace also the basic sleeve and widen it so that hemline matches armpit line.

Draw a cuff as a rectangle whose longer side is as original sleeve hemline and shorter side is 8cm. Mark grainline parallel to the long side.

Trace back and front separate, then cut through the raglan lines.

Save those two small pieces as we’ll merge them to the sleeve.