Midi Dress With Puff Sleeves And Front Tie

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 ✂️🧵