February’s Me-Made Dress
February is the month of loooooove… so this soft floral romantic style dress was perfect choice for this months me-made dress!! Actually this is the dress that started me sharing my dress project to Tiktok (and about 21k people fell in love with it and this project) and I get asked where I bought it from which is always a nice compliment to someone who sews their own clothes.
This dress is entirely made out of rectangles which made it so easy for me to put together!! And as a bonus, shirring (the gathering of the top part) is fashionable again at the moment and is perfect for beginner sewers. Stitching all of the rows with the shirring elastic does take a loooong time (and I ran out of elastic too which delayed it being finished for a few days) but the flowly skirt and fitted bodice is something I love as it suits my narrow waist but wide hips body shape.
I managed to overcome my fear of adding different sleeve types to dresses with these puff sleeves. Thank you to some youtube tutorials from Rosery Apparel who has a heap of sleeve tutorials including ones like these using elastic at the shoulder to hold the dress on and then at the wrist/forearm to create the puff! And because of that I end up having two dress in one – I can choose to wear the sleeves off the shoulder or pull them up like a normal sleeve. Most of the time I wear there somewhere between the two.
- Pattern – Self Drafted (Inspo Tutorial from Rosery Apparel)
- Fabric – 3 metres Floral Cotton – Spotlight (on clearance)
- 5mm elastic – East Coast Fabric
- Shirring Elastic – Spotlight
Below is a super rough sketch of the pattern pieces I used for this dress design (without seam allowances and a little bit crooked). Please note, this is not a proper dress pattern or tutorial, but more a document of my process through this journey to make one dress a month for 2022.
My other Me-made dresses
June’s Me-Made Dress
The start of another month means it is time for my next ‘me-made’ dress!!! Life and work kinda got a bit hectic the last few months, so I have been playing catch up with my 12 month dress project, which means I actually sewed 3 dresses in 3 days. But here is my June dress!
May’s Me-Made Dress
I’m back with another me-made dress!!! This dress is a re-make (better of course) of my very first self-drafted dress which I sewed in 2019. We already know that I love shirring and a full gathered skirt so this dress style is really the best of both worlds… all tied up together in a neat
April’s Me-Made Dress
Say hello to April’s me-made dress. I asked my Tiktok which fabric to pick and this one won hands down!!! I am not normally a big print type of gal but the dusty pink and retro florals called to me one trip to Spotlight! And I’m glad I grabbed it to try something different. This
March’s Me-Made Dress
Happy March!!! and St Patrick’s day, which this green dress is a happy coincidence. Three months into this challenge and I’m starting to feel a bit more confident with my self-drafting skills… namely sleeves (still very much avoiding having to add zips or stitch any complex designs). I just finished binging season 2 of Bridgerton
February’s Me-Made Dress
February is the month of loooooove… so this soft floral romantic style dress was perfect choice for this months me-made dress!! Actually this is the dress that started me sharing my dress project to Tiktok (and about 21k people fell in love with it and this project) and I get asked where I bought it
January’s Me-Made Dress
Starting off my 12 months of me-made dresses with a bang! I will admit this dress nearly didn’t get made in time for January but here she is! Starting off super simple with this baby doll style. Personally this loose style of dress is my favourite as it doesn’t need any tricky waist lines, sleeves,
