Hello Hive And Diy family
I'm happy to share with you the making process of this dress I had sewn last night. Having visited the farm this morning there was not much to do hence we returned home earlier to attend to other our functions.
Part of the task I wanted to do was to finish the dress I had started to make yesterday evening.
I bought this checkers fabric or Scottish materials over the weekend and have been very much excited about it. It's been long I have been searching for this kind of fabric but like you know, it's not easy to get certain fabrics in some locations especially if they are unique prints
Yesterday I made my first every Scottish skirt from the fabric I am so lucky to have mastered some skills on how to manage fabrics. Even the tiniest of fabric you won't find useful can become a gold in my hands. I have used just a trouser length of fabric to sew both a skirt and a top
Having cut and sewn a skirt here, I kept thinking about how to sew the dress or which design will fit the fabric best. Not all fabrics can be good for all designs hence I have to do a lot of brainstorming so that I won't end up sewing the fabric in contrasting to a design that will fit it best.
I started with cutting the fabrics having inserted my busy, waist hip and full length measurement.
When I realized that the fabric won't give me a sleeve I changed my design into a cut together sleeve.
This way I won't be creating an armhole line that will require a sleeve attached.
That is the secret with sewing a kimono outfits, the sleeve has been cut together with the clothes and you won't have to bother about sleeve
Having cut the front bodice with with a lower necklines I placed it on the back bodice and cut it out but with a longer necklines.
Next it was the sewing phase.
Some of the important things to take note of while working with this type of fabrics are
- For the neckline measurements I made sure this is wide enough using at least 4" width since the dress won't be having a zipper at the back, this is required so that the dress can easily pass ones head
While turning the necklines with a bias i tried to avoid stretching the necklines. If the necklines gets over stretch the dress will get slacked I'm that area leaving the clothes looking like some old slacked dress
I got a plain black fabric to turn the sleeves lines with it, this added some comeliness to the dress rather than wearing just the printed checkers fabric alone
You can chose to hold as much allowance as needed by the side seams to have a perfectly fitted clothes as the fabrics stretches alot lot.
This were the little tricks that helped me to see the lovely, fitted checkers dress.