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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Batik Shirtdress

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I finally finished my UFO from March, I'm so glad. My first plan was to make a blouse but I changed my mind the day I cut the fabric, I saw the border print and I felt terrible if I didn't use it. So, I lengthened the pattern down until my knee. And to make the shirtdress more stylish, I sewed a black slipdress to wear under it. In this case, I skip the buttons and let the dress open. I love the look and I will wear this set more often for sure. 

I used Norma blouse Ottobre design pattern S/S 02/2018 size 38, lengthened the hem until my knee, omitted the buttons, shortened the sleeves and made a full arm adjustment. 
And for the fabric, I used Indonesian batik in red, a gift from a friend for my birthday last year. 

The process of making this dress was lovely and relaxing, I started it in March and then I stopped. Only in July I pick the pieces up again and started sewing them. 
As shown below, I managed to capture the progress. The only difficult part was sewing the collar, I did a lot of basting before sewing and I used black bias tape to finish the collar. I love the result, it looks neat and clean.




The rest of the progress was according in the usual manner, I sewed the back darts, attached and sewed the sleeves and hand stitched the front plackets to the bodices. The last part was to sew the hemline and I'm done. 

I forgot to take pictures of the inner dress to show my hand stitching, so here is the finished dress both on my dress form and on me. I love the look, a lovely dress to wear every day without feeling too much dressing up.







About the slip dress, I used my self-drafted pattern and I made two slip dresses before. So it was an easy and quick project to sew.
The black drapey fabric, black sliders and rings were from my stash, I was happy I had all things and I realized that I also had a few black fabrics in my stash for other makes.



That's it for today, happy weekend and happy sewing. I will show you more finished garments soon. I managed to sew one more swimsuit (UFO), a kimono cover-up and a simple sleeveless dress 💗💗

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