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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Linen Top With Lace Applique

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I planned to make a linen top with lace applique for my entry to "Sew Recreate The Look" challenge hosted by Jen and Sharlene on Instagram last month but couldn't make it on time. I finished the top on 7th May and I only managed to take pictures today. 
This top is also for my entry to "Magam Sewalong" - April Amigas challenge hosted by Sue, Suzy and Helene on Instagram, I got the lace fabric from my friend Ana Maria two years ago and I think this top matches the theme.

The top design was copied from Pinterest, link here and the fabric was a linen from my stash. I lined the top with lightweight cotton fabric in off-white color.

For the pattern, I used my self-drafted pattern. I modified my basic top sloper into the design I want. As shown below. I changed the side ties fabric into cotton shirting because the linen was a little hard to tie together, not so nice.

The sewing progress involved a lot of pinning and basting, especially when I attach the lining to the bodices. The invisible zipper sewed at the center back and the rest of the progress was according to the usual manner.

After the top is done, I worked on the lace applique. I cut the pieces carefully and then pinned them on the front neckline and hand-sewing all the pieces. It was taking forever and glad I managed to finish it 😍


Here is the finished top, I'm very happy with the result and I might make this top again in the future.



The skirt I'm wearing is me-made as well, self-drafted pattern and I used dark grey denim fabric. The whole outfit is my entry to Me Made May 2023 Day 18 😍

That's all for today, Happy sewing 💗

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