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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...

Floral Peplum Top

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Hello everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend with family and friends! Here is my latest sewing project that I worked for so many days and I am very happy that the top turn out so well.  I am wearing my new peplum top Pattern: For the bodice, I used Burdastyle sweetheart dress 04/2013  size 34. And self-drafted peplum, I followed the techniques from burdastyle.com  " how to draft a peplum" Materials: 1.5 yards of floral silk crepe de chine from my stash and the left over fabric from this dress , silk satin in black color for neckline and armhole facing, lightweight fusible interfacing, invisible zipper and same color of thread. All the materials are from stash :-) How I worked: For the bodice, I didn't make any special fitting because I used the pattern before. So time saved :-) For the peplum, I drafted the pattern according to the instructions from Burdastyle. It's very easy to follow and the result is g...

Burdastyle Skirt 04/2013 - 117B

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Hello all... September is a very busy month for me but luckily I still have time to sew some small projects for the house and finished my skirt for 2013 style the stash sew a long . The skirt is easy to make but taking time to finish it because I only have one hour to sew everyday. I want to make this type of skirt for so long but always distracted with other projects, but I am happy now that I finally made it. And here are the details of the skirt: Pattern  : I used burdastyle skirt pattern, 04/2013- 117 B  size 38. I don't need to copy the new pattern because I used it before for my sweetheart dress . So, time saved! Materials : 1.25 yards of cotton drill from my stash in deep purple color, invisible zipper, fusible interfacing and same color of thread. How I worked on this skirt : If you follow my facebook page, you must have seen my post about skirt in progress over there. But if you aren't following me, here is the link - burdasty...