March 2018 Garments

This dress was made last month for my entry to "Mad March - make a dress" #magamsewalong hosted by Sarah Liz Sew Style. After thinking and selecting the fabric and pattern, I decided to try Diana dress S1034 from my image pattern. Diana dress has nice pleats at the front neckline, long sleeves and simple shape of shift dress but sadly I didn't like the final pleats on me after I tried the muslin (I posted the picture on My Instagram).
And instead of making one more muslin and solve the pleat issues, I changed the pattern. I chose another pattern from My Image, Marua Tunic dress S1033 size 36. The original pattern of Marua has asymmetrical hemline and finished the neckline with facing but I modified it to my liking, regular hemline and finished neckline with a band.

It was easy to modify this pattern, I just omitted the asymmetrical hem and made a new line of hemline but beware if you are tall, this tunic is too short for you. But as I am petite, the length just fine for me. 

For the neckline, I decided to lower 1.5 cm because it was a little high for my liking. Also, I made full arm adjustment on the sleeves.

Fabrics I used for this dress were Daisy print in black and white knit jersey that I bought during our visit to London last year and black rib knit from stash for neckband.

The process of making this dress was very quick, I used an overlocker for almost all edges, except the neckband but I used twin needle to top stitch.

The sleeves and hem were sewn with twin needle as well.

I also made a t-shirt based on this pattern, I just cut the length until middle of my hip and shorten the sleeves. I used leftover fabric from previous garments in green knit and used black rib knit for neckband. 

And I was glad that I wore both dress and t-shirt during my trip to Taipei. Picture below was taken in the Elephant Mountain where I can see a lovely view of Taipei 101.

Before I say goodbye, I want to show you my bomber jacket that I made to wear on trip. Pattern from Burdastyle double buttons bomber jacket 04/2017 view A. I like the jacket and wore it a lot during the trip but I didn't sew the pockets due limited time. I will make another one soon in other colour than grey and will sew the pockets and add the lining 😊

Happy Sewing!

Love,
Hana  @velvetribbon_sew