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Dressy Thingy

My first attempt at dress making!

https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/dressy-thingy • Posted by Humuhu

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

You will need

Project Budget
Almost Nothing

Time

3 h 30

Difficulty

So-so
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Description

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

Instructions

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    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. <--- like so.

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    Next, cut the "T" out and fix the height to your liking.

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    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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    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