My second project is to create / experiment sewing a dress for my 4 year old cousin. I haven't see her in a while but my mom took her measurement and I started the project as soon as I have nothing to do. Haha. She is rather thin and lanky and I hope this will fit her. I'm thinking of keeping it for a while and make a shirt for her brother and maybe a skirt / top and skirt for her older sister. We'll see how it goes.
After a few days of tracing pattern, cutting and sewing. I finally finished the project in hmm 3, 4 days? What took me long was the buttonhole. Ughh, I hate sewing those manually and was contemplating of changing it for something else but alas, nothing else was doable. I'm using an old straight "Raleigh" sewing machine which has been in the family since.. forever I guess. It still run smoothly and works like a dream. After sewing the buttonhole and buttons, here is the finish project:
Front of the dress
Back of the dress
Close up on buttons at the back. Only 1 goes through a buttonhole, the other is a mock button.
The bottom of the dress, this time I added a bit of lace and a small layer of ruffle (or pleats).
This dress would have been nicer if the base body is in plain color and the ruffles using prints. Sadly the plain cloth that I bought were of lower quality and a mix of polyester and cotton (more polyester than cotton) and were very transparent. It could be used as ruffles or bias but not as main structure of a dress, tunic or shirt.
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