Refashioned Patchwork Dress

I made a patchwork dress for my entry to #magamsewalong challenge on Instagram. The progress was very relaxing and I did it slowly, one hour every day in my free time and glad after two and half weeks I finished my dress.

After searching for inspiration on Pinterest, I decided to make a simple dress with a v-neck and short sleeves. For the fabric, I reused the fabric from my two old favourite dresses that don't fit me anymore and leftover scrap.

Joyful sweetheart dress and sleeveless dress with bow

My sewing progress started with cutting all the fabrics into square and rectangle shapes, mixed the prints, pinned and sewed them together. After that, I sewed the raw edges using an overlocker machine and pressed them with an iron. The result was 1.5 m x 95 cm that was enough for me to make a short sleeves dress.

For the pattern, I used my self-drafted v-neck dress. The v-neckline finished with neck facing, invisible zipper at the center back, bust darts, back darts and short sleeves. 1.5 cm Seam allowance in all edges, 2.5 cm sleeve allowance and 3 cm hem allowance.

Pictures below show my dress pieces before sewing them together.

I fused the neck facing with fusible interfacing, sewed them (front and back) together and attached it to the neckline. Clipped the curve area and folded it to the inner dress. Pinned and top-stitched it by hand.

And here are more pictures of the whole dress and details. I love how the fabrics blended together nicely and also, the fit was lovely - just enough for my liking.