DIY Shirt Jacket (Shacket), Burdastyle Pattern

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Hi there, Happy New Year and I wish you all the best in 2025 💖 Today's post is about the finished shirt jacket (shacket) I started working on in October last year. It was delayed because I was doing other things but well, I'm glad I finished it and look forward to wearing it daily. It's a simple and comfy shacket. It has low shoulders and is finished with a straight hemline. I used Burdastyle long jacket 9/2023 size 40 for the pattern and shortened the length.  For the fabric, I used cotton chino in beige from my stash. Also, the rest of the notions were from stash, yay! for not buying anything new 😍 The sewing process started in October last year. I did it in my free time, but unfortunately, I couldn't finish quickly. And then, other projects came and I put this shacket aside. As usual, I pinned and sewed the back pieces together as shown below. And then, sewed the front and back pieces together. Fused the f...
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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 to add a front tie to make the dress nicer. The ties were 2 cm × 60 cm.
I pinned them and then hand-sewing.

The dress was finished and I was happy with the result. The fit was good, not too tight or loose. And the front tie added sweetness to the dress.




The last two pictures of the dress in the wild 😀 and I think I started to like a midi-length dress.


In case you are interested in watching the video of the making of this midi dress, click the video below from my YouTube channel,



I think that is enough for today, thank you for stopping by, and see you again next week in another post.
Happy sewing ✂️🧵

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