Midi Dress With Puff Sleeves And Front Tie

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Hi there, today's post is about a new dress I sewed last month. It's a midi-style dress with puff sleeves and a front tie. I made this dress to wear to a special dinner. For the pattern: I lengthened my selfdrafted v-neck dress into midi length. And for the fabric, I used a linen blend in green color. I bought the fabric in Bangkok during my summer holiday in August. The dress pattern had 6 pieces, front and back darts and I fused the facings with fusible interfacing. As usual, the sewing process was relaxing and it finished faster than I planned. The picture below shows the process of sewing the zipper, I pinned it before sewing it using the zipper foot. To make the puff sleeves, I gathered the sleeves before pinning and sewing them to the armhole.  After attaching the sleeves, I sewed the sleeve allowance 1 cm and the hem allowance 1.5 cm. And then, I pinned the neckline before top-stitching it. I decided
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Summer Skirt in Light Pink

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A very simple style skirt and perfect for any body type.
The pattern is free pdf pattern by mahaila, she is very generous and talented girl that shared her tutorial on Burdastyle. Here is the pattern and for my skirt I used 3/4 circle skirt.
Material that I used for the skirt:
- 1.75 yards of cotton polyester in light pink colour
- fusible interfacing for the waistband
- invisible zipper and same colour thread

As I promised on my last post, I am still working on the tote bag tutorial. But I am not sure that I have enough time to publish my tutorial before my holidays. Anyway, I only missing little a bit part of the tutorial, hopefully I'll finish it before my holidays.
Happy sewing!

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