STEP BY STEP

Now that I’ve sorted myself out and have gained the confidence, it’s time to start my dress creation.

I’m not by any means a professional dressmaker, nor have I had any proper experience. I make my dresses from eyeballing my sizing and somehow it miraculously works out every time. Weird right? But I’m not complaining, so touch wood it works out this time because then that wouldn’t be too good.

When making a dress for yourself, I often find that it is easier than creating a dress for someone else. Firstly, you know your body and secondly, you are able to picture yourself realistically in something.

Pattern making is something that I know I’m not doing 100% right, but I have followed many tutorials on YouTube, and you know what, it doesn’t seem that hard… except for the fact that I am eyeballing EVERYTHING…

Nevertheless, now that I’ve gotten all of that explaining out of the way, I can start with the basics I will need.

I often find it easier if you have a top that is similar to your dress style. This way you can trace the pattern of your top and lengthen it to the sized dress you want. All I will need is brown paper, a ruler, a black marker and of course my chosen top, which is an over the shoulder top. I trace my top on the brown paper, measure how long I want my dress to be, extended my pattern, cut it out and BAAM, I am done.

When cutting out my fabric, I find that it’s better to double my fabric up so I can save time and get a more precise size. Placing my pattern, I manage to get an accurate shape that I’m looking for.

Now it’s time to sew!