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...

Colour Block Dress

I made this dress in the end of last month as my entry to "Join Up July" #magamsewalong challenge in Instagram hosted by Sue, Helene and Suzy. 
My plan was to sew a simple and classy colour block dress to wear for dinner out or special occasion. 
I used my self-drafted dress pattern, based on basic dress slopers that I drew in May. I changed the dart position, omitted the sleeves and changed the neckline shape.

My fabrics were cotton blend in black and Indonesian batik that I bought locally. 
I used the batik for one side at the front only and used black cotton blend for the rest. 
The dress has zipper in the center back, two darts in the front, two darts in the back, finished the neckline with facings and the armhole with me-made bias tape in black.

The progress was fast, I started with sewing the front piece - connected the two fabrics together and, sewed the darts and then the shoulder lines together.
I sewed the zipper, neck facing and then top-stitched the facing by hand and sewed the bias tape around the armhole and top-stitches around using the sewing machine.
I really love how it turned out, the fit is just right for my liking. And the fabric combination is perfect.




Here is the inner look of the facing and armhole binding, both sewed by sewing machine and hand. Also I basted them before sewing to avoid uneven stitches.


That's it for today, I sewed a few more garments 
last month and I'm not going to share each of them here just the collage. Please feel free to check my Instagram @velvetribbon_sews for more details.

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  1. I like your color block dress, and the green rayon is really nice, too. It's always fun to see what your latest creation is. :-)

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  2. Thank you, Lyrique. I have leftover green rayon fabric and planning to make another simple dress with short sleeve ��

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