DIY Midi Dresses

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Hi there, Happy Friday 🌸🌸 Today's update is about two new dresses that I made to wear on special outings. The sleeveless orange midi dress was made in October and the long-sleeved dress was made at the beginning of this month.  Both patterns were self-drafted, and the dresses had ruffles at the bottom tier. And to complete the look, I added a removable bow and pinned it to the neckline.  For the sleeveless midi dress, I used a linen blend fabric a souvenir from my trip to Bangkok and the fabric was enjoyable to sew. As usual, the sewing process started with pinning and sewing the darts and then attached the facings to the front and back pieces right sides together. I pinned it around and then sewed it, but I left a few centimeters open to sew the shoulder lines. I love this method, the finished facing looks clean and neat. I closed the opening area with hand sewing. I gathered the bottom tiers and then sewed them to...
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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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