Showing posts with label simple sewing project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label simple sewing project. Show all posts

Saturday, June 11, 2011

How to make an easy summer dress:

I hope everyone is having a relaxing weekend. It's raining in New York therefor is a perfect day to sew! My husband would rather see me painting but I am in love with sewing at the moment and I must put my brush down.

As I mentioned to you on my "How to make a tunic dress" post about my friend, Yulia. When I last visited her, she was kind enough to make me a dress pattern from a dress I no longer wear but love the shape of. My first attempt to sew my own dress was not the tunic dress, my first attempt was a much simpler dress which I had a pattern for.  I changed the pattern just a tiny bit. Why? because I was scared to make a mistake on the collar area. There! Okay, I feel better.  There were some mistakes along the way, but I think the project turned out okay. I was content with the results and I made 2 other dresses with the same pattern.

I took a picture of the dress patterns before I started to sew them together to help you understand what pieces you will need and as picture of the results. It's a very comfortable and easy dress to make. 
Cut 2 pieces.

 I used Cotton Jersey fabric and 1/4" elastic for the waist. 

 
Here I used linen fabric and 1/2"elastic for the waist.