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DIY V-neck Tiered Dress

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Hello, I made three dresses to wear on my trip to Bangkok during the Easter holiday and this dress is the first one I made. I will share another two in the next posts.  I started working on this dress two weeks before the trip and I'm glad I managed to finish it on time, as well as my other dresses.  This dress was fun and relaxing to sew because I made one before in a midi length, so this time I shortened the length until my knee and sewed it easily. For the fabric, I used a printed rayon from my stash and white cotton lining leftover from my previous make. For the pattern, I used my self-drafted pattern. At first, I didn't want to add the lining but I had to because the fabric was a bit transparent, the lining fabric wasn't enough and I connected the pieces to make the back skirt. Here is the look of the fabric after cutting and the skirt was pieces of a rectangle: the first tiers - front and back, the last tier on the fold ( I forgot to take the p

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 great. After I had all the fabric p

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 - burdastyle skirt in progress I st