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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

Burdastyle 07/2018 Silk Blouse

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As promised in my previous post, here is the finished silk blouse that I was working on for some time. I'm glad I finally finished and wore it. The blouse design is lovely, I especially love the button loops and the sleeve. Also, this blouse is easy to wear with a skirt, culottes or pants.  The problem, I have a love-hate relationship with silk, I love it because it's a luxury fabric and drapes beautifully but I didn't like to wear it in hot weather because it makes me sweat. So, I decided to wear silk in autumn or spring when the weather isn't so hot and humid 😊 I wore this blouse yesterday and I liked the fit, a little bit loose at the sides and the kimono sleeves were comfortable. I wore it with a me-made self-drafted skirt in beige and I think that this blouse will be nice to wear with my culottes too.  Well, I'm thinking to make one more blouse using this pattern but I'll be using other types of fabric. I'll see... Pattern: Burdasty