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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

Cotton Striped Dress

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Hello friends, I made another cotton dress to wear every day. Summer is finally here and it's very hot and humid, so this dress will be a great addition to my wardrobe. For the fabric, I used two yards of cotton shirting in red and white stripes. This fabric was inside my stash for a while, I bought it on sale in the local shop. I used my self-drafted for the pattern (based on my dress sloper block from Basic Pattern Making book by Lucia Mors de Castro). I made the first version of this dress in gingham print but instead of a gathered skirt like this striped dress, I used a pleated skirt,  link here from my IG . My first plan was to make this dress for my entry to "April Ahoy" #magamsewalong challenge hosted by Sue  and Suzy , but I was so busy with other things. I managed to cut the fabric in April but finished in May. And gladly that Suzy suggested to me that this dress will work fine for "May-be Menswear" because I used men's shirting fabric.