Step 1
Copy front and back of the pattern to a sheet of paper, leaving a 10 cm distance between the edge of the paper and center front and back. This will become your pleat. Make sure you mark the waistline of the shirt at center front and back.
Step 2
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Now you are going to draft the skirt. Start at the center front and back lines and extend these to length you want for your skirt plus hem allowance (usually measured from the waist, the finished length of the skirt of my dress is 52 cm). Then draw the side of the skirt. Use the beginning of the curve from waist to hip in the pattern as a starting point (this means your skirt will already be wider then the t-shirt pattern at its hemline, because t-shirt patterns are usually quite straight at the hip). Draw the hemline in a curve (the distance of waist to hem should be about 1 cm less at the sideseams, because they will stretch more in sewing and wearing)
Step 3
To draft a neck drape similar to mine, draw a line 4 cm below the armhole, at a straight angle to center front. Draw a new neckline from the point wher the neckline meets the shoulderline to where the new help line meets center front (it should be parallel to the help line for 1 cm at center front). At center front, extend the new neckline into the pleat. Now, measure the new neckline at front and back, from the centers, to the shoulder (substract 1,5 cm from each to compensate for seam allowance at the shoulder). The width of the pleats is not measured here. The resulting measurement is equal to half the length for the neck drape. Either use this measurement to cut the drape on the fold, or cut it out of a single layer of fabric doubling it. The drape can be as high as you want it. Mine was 60 cm (single layer).3

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