Dressy Thingy
My first attempt at dress making!
Posted by Humuhu
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My first attempt at making a dress! :D I must admit, the dress isn't very flattering, but trust me, it looks waay better in person. Excuse the ugly, see-through pink fabric, I didn't want to waste any good fabric on an experiment :P
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You Will Need (3 things)
- Elastic
- Fabric lots of it
- Sewing Gear
Steps (9 steps, 210 minutes)
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1
First, take 2 large pieces of fabric (or do what i did : folded a HUGE piece of fabric in half) and draw a big fat T on it.
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2
Next, cut the "T" out and fix the height to your liking.
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3
Then, hem the sleeves, the bottom of the dress and the neck line. Since my pieces were joined together, it took me less time to do this.
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4
Take some elastic, approximately the size of your bust. This will give your dress it's shape.
NOTE: DO NOT take any more than your bust size because that's what i did and the loose-fittingness made me look bigger than I am D: -
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Mark where you want your elastic to stick. I put mine a little below the bust to ensure that my boobs don't look big :P (hehe, conservative I am!)
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Next, take two strips of the same fabric and sew them on to the wrong sides of the dress. This makes a pocket for you to stick your elastic in. Or, if you have thicker elastic, you could just sew that on. Mine was too thin to sew on so I went with the pockets. Make sure it goes all the around the dress.
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Sew the strips on to the wrong sides of the dress.
Again, remember to make it pocket-like.
This means that there should be a stitch on each side and a gap in the middle of the strips. -
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Thread the elastic through the pockets all the way around the dress. Close it off by hand.
Then, sew the sides and the sleeves together. I made my sleeves narrower at the top for winged effect :P -
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And presto, you're done! Now that wasn't so hard, was it? :D Hope you understood my how to and make sure to post you version, I'd LOVE to see it! :D