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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Striped Dress In Jersey Knit

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A couple weeks ago I planned to make swing dress 08/2012 from Burdastyle with striped jersey knit but the dress didn't turn out well as I expected. The side panel of the dress was fine but the neck was too big for me and the skirt didn't suit me so well.
So I decided to refashion the dress. I turn the gathered skirt to pencil skirt, I throw the top to the trash:( and make another top pattern with the left over fabric (lucky me). And I reused the short sleeves. It's really annoying work but I have to.

I will definitely make swing dress another time but for sure I have to work with the pattern and I'll try with another type of fabric.

Speaking about this lovely striped dress, I used 3 different patterns with adjustment.
For the top I used pattern from empire dress by burdastyle, I only used the top pattern by lengthen the pattern about 3''. For short sleeves pattern, I used the pattern from my last dress and for the skirt I used my self-drafted pencil skirt pattern.

I omitted the zipper because the fabric is stretch (ohhh...lucky me that I don't need to work with invisible zipper:)))
For the lining, I used the same fabric with fusible interfacing.
It's hard working to match the stripe on this dress, but with hard work and time to make it the dress turn out beautifully.
Here are more pictures of my lovely dress,




 




Happy Sewing...

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  1. Hana November 16, 2012 at 10:21 AM

    Thanks for your compliments, Marlow.

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  2. AriBFebruary 21, 2013 at 10:16 AM

    I love what you did with these stripe.....very nice! It looks really good

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