I hope you had a wonderful weekend. It was Mother’s Day weekend in the United States. Happy Mother’s Day to all of you lovely mums out there.
This maxi dress was done a year ago, and I’m only now getting around to uploading it. You would have seen it if you subscribed to my YouTube, channel. I just haven’t put it up on the website yet, which I’m doing right now. Please bear with me.
Also, I have a few more sewing DIYs that I haven’t yet uploaded here, which I will do gradually. Have a great week ahead.
Today’s post is a dress I made during summer. Some of you may have seen it because I posted it on instagram few months ago. It’s a very simple dress that you could wear with sash or without the sash. You could also lengthen the gathers on the dress.
I was on pinterest when I came across this dress worn by MimiG (picture below) and fell in love with the simplicity of the dress. I knew right away that I was going to make a similar one.
HeyLovelies, I’m so excited about this top. It’s Vogue 9315. I’ve seen different varieties of this pattern being sewn and I really love them all which motivates me to buy one.
Going through my fabric stack I noticed this African print cotton wax fabric which was a remnant from a previous dress I made and right away I know that was the fabric I was going to use.
Here are what I love about the pattern. First, the long sash which you could wrap around twice in each direction. Second, the peplum sleeves and Third the crop is shaped perfectly.
PATTERN MODIFICATIONS
Checking other blogger’s recommendations, I decided to
Add 1.5 inches to the length of the top but it was still a bit short for me so next time I will be adding 2 or 2.5inches.
I raised the neck by 1.5 inches because of my triple D cup.
I added 3 inches to each sleeve peplum and increase the length by 1.5 inches.
I added lining to the front and back bodice.
Going through the pattern, I do recommend the pattern and I think I could easily turn it into a dress.
I did a sew-along video for the pattern which is the video above.
I was at the Black Women’s Expo & Job Fair last Saturday supporting my beautiful friends Misi of Misi Afrique (African Fashion and more) and Jummy of …