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

Rag Doll - Daisy Jane

Hello...
I made this doll last time and my son named her Daisy Jane. I was planning to make it for myself but my son want it.
He had a boy doll  and he wanted Daisy Jane to be his doll friend, so I gave it to him :)
Now, Daisy Jane is staying inside my son room together with his other dolls. How sweet....

I got the pattern from Burda Kid's magazine that my dear husband bought me from his short trip to Lisbon

source from BurdaStyle
Materials:
White cotton fabric for the body, yellow knit fabric for the tube top, floral fabric for the skirt, stripes knit for the stockings, black felt for the hair, brown felt for the eyes, pink thread for the lip, red ribbon, elastic, polyester stuffing and threads for sewing.

Pattern:
BurdaStyle Rag Doll 09/2013#149 with adjustment on the tube top and skirt. I have to make the outfit bigger because they were too tight for the doll.
Here is my pattern pieces,

The sewing process was fun and much easier, you can follow the picture below

I hand sewn the side of the doll after I stuffed it with polyester stuffing. I used a chop stick to pull the stuffing on the place, because the hands and feet were together with the body

After all the process done, I sew the ribbon to her hair. And here is the whole look of the doll, front and back views

I sew the outfit. The top just like a tube top with two holes in both sides for the hands to insert. The skirt was a rectangle shape skirt finished with elastic inserted inside the waistband. And the stockings were in the shape of long/skinny rectangle, which one side was sewn and the other was open.

Well, it was an easy and fun project to make. Here are more pictures of Daisy Jane and I think she is a very cute doll :)




This doll is a part of my weekly update "DIY Friday" and I am also linking it to Caroline for Show Off Saturday

Happy Sewing!

Comments

  1. Totally cute! :) Thanks for sharing :)

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    1. Thank you, Katharina. I am working on the second doll now :)

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  2. I've been trying to post my comment so many times (My computer is acting out with El Capitan upgrade ....) I said the following: so sweet! This doll is perfect for a bed or a sewing room!

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