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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

V-Neck Purple Shirt

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I realized that my last post on this blog was in November, wow! Time flies so fast, I was busy, low sewjo but glad I still managed to sew a few simple garments. I posted them on  my Instagram  and I will show the collage at the end of this post. And today, I want to show my recent make, a simple shirt that I wore at Valentine's dinner last Tuesday. Also, this shirt is my entry to  #magamsewalong  challenge "February Fling" on Instagram hosted by Sue, Suzy and Morag, thank you, ladies. To follow the theme, I just make something to fling on, to get rid of one more fabric in my stash and make something nice to wear for dinner out 😄 I used Burdastyle pattern 12/2019 -101 A size 38 and changed the neckline into a v-neck by lowering the center front 11 cm and creating a new v-line. I moved the front shoulder line to the actual shoulder, omitted the ruffles and inserted elastic on the sleeve hem (the original pattern was with a sleeve slit and band). Here is  my fir