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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DIY Batik Shirt - Ottobre Design Pattern

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Hi there, I'm back from our summer holiday in Bangkok and we had a great time. I hope your summer holiday was enjoyable. As usual, I made new dresses for the holiday but will show you the dresses later. For now, I will show you a batik shirt I made for my husband. The shirt was his birthday present and I was glad he loved it.

He got the batik from my mom last year, a typical Indonesian batik with a combination of black and brown.
For the pattern, I used Ottobre Design Four Fellows shirt, size 54. I made this pattern before in a short sleeve and this time I made the hemline straight.


After I cut all the pieces and fused the interfacing on the collar pieces, I started working on the shirt according to the usual manner. It was an enjoyable process, especially since cotton fabric was easy to work with.
The only tricky one was sewing the collar and attaching it to the neckline. I did a lot of pinning and basting to get a neat result.



I uploaded a video of the making of this shirt and all the details on my YouTube channel, you can click the link if you are interested to see more DIY Batik Shirt or click the video below,



The prints didn't match because of the limited fabric but I think is okay. Also, I only sew one pocket because two are too much for my husband's liking.



I was happy the shirt turned out well and it fits him nicely. My husband wore it on the Birthday dinner 😍

I made the pink printed dress as well and I will show you the detail in another post.

That's it for today, thank you for stopping by and happy sewing 💗

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