Heyhey,

the dress is coming together and I am starting to doubt a little, if I will really like it when its finished, but maybe I am to critical – we will see next week when I will finish it.

Anyway you can check back on this project from the beginning here: part1, part2, part3, part4 .

I pinned the front facing down

and the sleeves into the top, for that I turned the bodice wrong side out and the sleeves right side out, and put the sleeves into the armholes from the inside, this way the right sides face each other

sewed and serged the armholes

and sewed the edge over, so my top part is finished.

before sewing the skirt I added the welt pockets

because my fabric frays a lot I used fusible interfacing, the softest I had, which is vliselina H180. I cut 4 pieces the size of the open welt parts.

2 pieces I ironed right on top of the markings of the pockets,(wrong side of the fabric) trying to place the marking right in the middle

and the other 2 on my welt parts

I redrew the lines of the pockets placing and drew them longer

then took a thread in a different color that is easy to see, and sewed the lines with wide stitching

so I have my markings on the right side as well

then placed my welt folded in the middle and one pocket part and placed them on the marking according to the seam allowance in the pieces

then I used chalk to draw the lines of the pocket onto welt and the bigger pocket part

then sewed the long sides, careful to end and start right at the same point, and that my seams are parallel

now I cut it in in the middle between the seams, stopping 1-2cm before the end

then cut into the corners from that point, right to that end of the seam

and then turned both parts onto the inside

and ironed them, welt into the hole

 and then seam allowances of the pocket part apart

now I sewed the pocket shut with hand stitching the way I wanted it to look like when its finished

now I took the triangles on the inside and pinned them to the welt

and sewed them

next I pinned the smaller pocket parts to the seam allowance of the welt

sewed and serged, and also serged the rest of the seam allowances

then pinned the pocket parts together, the way they lay on top of each other

then cut them to the same size

and overlocked all around. I keep my pockets closed until the dress is finished, so nothing I will do, will pull them into a weird form.

Do you have any questions about this? Please do not hesitate to ask!

Did you already vote for the next sewing tutorial? If not you can here.

keep sewing and smiling

your TailorFairy