Hello Hive!
Dear #Needleworkmonday creatives, hope you all are having a fabulous week going, well I have, not been on a vacation or anything extra, I've spent the most of my week beside my sewing machine, even though I will be having exams in a week from now, I just can't stop myself from bringing to reality all the sewing project I have going on in my mind, also due to the fact that I have to fulfill my promise to my sister.
Just so you know, I have three younger sisters, the best three, yea, I'm that lucky to have three awesome companions that made my life fun right from their birth to this very moment.
You know how we ladies can't do without looking nice and presentable wherever we are, so as the oldest and the designer in the house, you already know who they run to for clothing problems, and I'm always ready to deliver, growing up, we did most activities together, especially sharing our dresses that my mum sometimes buys the same design each one of for us, there was a period I and my immediate two younger sis wore the same size of cloth,
I'm on the smaller size and they grew too fast, now it's just three out of the four that wears almost similar size, while my immediate younger sis has left us behind to be on a bigger size, lol, her loss though, because my dress doesn't size her anymore, so it's just the three of us with almost similar size now, and today, I will be sharing with us the dress I made my younger sister who is the third born girl, the calmest out of us all, you would have to probe her before she declares what she has on her mind.
I recently made our last born sister some outfits that I shared here In this community and she made me feel guilty about ignoring making her new dresses for a while now because she would rather keep to herself than disturb me as my other sisters would, I felt guilty because it has been really a while I made her a new dress, which others keep getting as they demanded so here I am fulfilling that promise when I'm supposed to be buried in my books preparing for my exams ahead, but it's all worth it, for sister's love, also so that she wouldn't feel left out.
I've had this fabric since early last year and always promising myself to make something out of it, I guess it also felt ignored by me, now is the time to put it to good use for a sister who felt ignored as well lol
I decided to make a shirt flare dress, which is a design my sister would particularly appreciate.
Starting, I drafted and cut out the upper side of the dress using a Kimono shirt pattern, with two pieces for the front, and one piece for the back,
Next, I joined the upper side by the shoulders, also sewing and folding in the button placket
The shirt collar comes up next, here is how it's pattern looks like, I sewed it round the neckline of the shirt after turning.
The lower part of the dress was made using a flare pattern, where her waist measurement serves as the radius of the 180° circle
I sewed it around the waist, and here is the final look of the dress,
Simple and elegant, I hope she loves it when she visits thus evening, I've fulfilled my promise, now let me hurry back to catch up with my book reading, wish me luck in my exams 🤗
All images used are mine