Skater Dress

Let's do this!

Hey! It is almost 12am here and I am still awake. Let me finish this post and I'll get to bed soon enough. I wanted to upload two other projects which I had finished long long time ago. However, as usual I forgot to document them. Anyways, one of them I made using a pattern from a Japanese book and another was a pyjamas for my mom. I think I can skip on teaching you how to make them. LOL.

Today, I will be teaching you how to make your own skater dress. HEHE.

Materials:

Fabric (slightly stretchy) 1.5m-2m

Sewing machine

Lace

Thread

Skater skirt pattern:

When it comes to sewing a skirt, your waist measurement is the most important thing. Hence, always have your waist measurement recorded before starting on a skirt project! Afterwards, you can use this app/website to create your own pattern!

App/Website: http://byhandlondon.com/pages/circle-skirt-app

Since it is a circle skirt, you have to click on the FULL.
Let me show you an example:

Then it will show you have your skirt pattern should be like

Top pattern:

Take your favourite Dress or Top

Fold it into half.

Trace out the bodice. (I did not trace out the whole length of the top but only to wear I want the bodice to end)

I am very lazy to make a pattern for both the front and back bodice hence I decided to roughly draw a curve at the neck line to differentiate the front and back of the bodice. (The first curve is an alteration to the back bodice)

Then I snip off the first curve which will be my back bodice neckline.

In case you have no idea what I was talking about. I labelled for you! (For this piece, the neckline for the front isn't so low, the curve is much nearer to the back)

Draft out the sleeve (In this case, I want a short sleeve).

Cutting the fabric:

Front x 1

Back x 1

Sleeve x 2

Skirt x 1

Rectangle piece (20" by 4") x 2

Assembling the pieces:

1. Sew the shoulder area together.

2. Attach the sleeves to the armhole and sew.

3. Sew the opening ends to close the sleeve.

4. Sew down to the side seam line however leave about 2" open.

5. Sew the rectangle piece to make a tube (~20" by 2").

6. Overturn the tube with the right side facing you.

7. Attach each tube to the openings of the side seam and sew.

8. Sew the skirt to the top.

9. Hem the neckline and sleeve.

10. Pin the lace to the hem of the skirt and sew it as a decoration.

So how did my dress went?

 

There wasn't enough lace for the hem. So I went online to order some and of course, I won't be using the same lace shown on the picture since I managed to find even prettier lace. HAHA. I will show the new result of the dress with the new lace I bought on my next post (hopefully)!!! I guess the lace above can be used for another project! YAY!

Lots and lots of love from me~~~~

Part 1: Smock Dress

I've finally finished playing Dead Space 3!!!

Woo-hoo~~~

I am finally blogging! I know it's been a while. I wasn't in the mood to update and every time I wanted to, I ended up doing something else. Why do I suddenly decide to blog? I realised that I won't be able to update my blog since I am unable to sew this week! :(

As the title goes, I am going to teach you how to make your very own smock dress!!! :D

Materials:
2-2.5m of fabric

Thread
Sewing machine
Needles


Step 1: Making the pattern

Take your favourite Dress or Top

Fold it into half.

Trace out the bodice. (I did not trace out the whole length of the top but only to where I want the bodice to end)

I am very lazy to make a pattern for both the front and back bodice hence I decided to roughly draw a curve at the neck line to differentiate the front and back of the bodice. (The first curve is an alteration to the back bodice)

Then I snip off the first curve which will be my back bodice neckline.

In case you have no idea what I was talking about. I labelled for you! HEHE!

Draft out the sleeve.

Step 2: Cutting the fabric (Bodice & Sleeve)

 Pin the pattern to the fabric and cut out the back bodice.

Follow the previous step. To get the front bodice, cut out the back neckline.

Now, you will have both the front and back bodice! YAY!

Follow the sleeve pattern and cut the fabric out.

Step 3: Sewing the patterns

 Pin the shoulder with right sides facing each other. Then sew the raw egdes.

 Pin the side seams and sew them down.

Attach the sleeves to the bodice right sides facing each other.

Step 4: Cutting the pattern (Skirt)

Measure the waist of the bodice and add about 10-15" to the waistline measurement. Since my fabric wasn't long enough to cut out the exact waistline, I cut out about four pieces of fabric which added to the waistline. The length of the skirt will be your own preference. I want to make a mini smock dress hence my length of the skirt is shorter than usual dress. 

Since I have extra fabric and I wanted my smock dress to be slightly different from the normal ones you can get from stores, I cut out 2 sets of  5" by 5"with a fold at the side. These will be added to the sleeve making them ruffled sleeves. :D

Step 5: Assembling the dress

Since I have 4sets of the skirt, I first sew the 4sets to make it into one skirt. Then, attach the skirt to the bodice by adding small pleats. These pleats make it a smock dress. Now, sew down the skirt.

 Pin the 5"by 5" to the raw edges of the sleeve.

Finally, hem the ends of the sleeves, neckline and skirt.

So how did my smock dress go?

Isn't it pretty?!

 Now who said you can't make your own smock dress?! HAHAHAHAHA!

Next post will be on top with sexy bell sleeves~

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