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
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Pink Tana Lawn Dress

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I made this dress in May but I didn't like the look of the final dress on me. The dress based on Burdastyle plumetis dress 04/2019-120 and fabric was Liberty cotton tana lawn in crushed pink, I bought this during our trip to London.
Firstly, I omitted the stand collar and made a v-neck by folded the neckline to the outer side and hand sewed both lines. The dress has ruffles sleeve and hem, I decided to shorten the length of the ruffle hem until my knee.
But I wasn't happy with the look of the ruffle sleeves on me and as I don't have too much time to sew I just put this dress back inside my closet. And only in October I pick it out and removed the ruffle sleeves, sewed and wore it. Well, as you saw in the picture above, the dress looks much better without ruffle sleeves.




After I removed the ruffle sleeves, I worked on the neckline. I cut the round neckline and made it v-neck. And then, pinned and sewed the bias binding around. I was happy with the clean look of the v-neck and I think it looks much better on me.

I kept the belt and added bell-loops on both sides of the waistline.

The dress can be worn with or without a belt, but I prefer to wear it with a belt.

After all, I'm glad that I managed to re-style this dress and wore it. I was thinking to make the second version without ruffle hem and longer length.

That's it for today everyone, Happy Sewing 💗

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  1. Ivana SplitDecember 23, 2019 at 1:59 AM

    such a beautiful dress. You're very talented. This shade of pink suits you really well.

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