A Pretty Two-Piece Dress For A Wedding Guest.

Hello Needleworkers.

Happy New Week to you and I hope we all have a productive week.

Last week was such an amazing week as many good things unfolded for me and the ones around me, especially my friend who told me about her cousin getting married.

She came around on Tuesday and asked if she decided to make a dress, would it be ready by Thursday? Because she had to travel alongside the dress to the location which was in another state.

With so much thought, I had to check around the schedule if I had any urgent outfits to make and realized all my clients would be getting most of it in a fortnight and since I was her only hope I decided to make the dress for her.

She came in with black crepe fabrics of about three yards and a floral net fabric of about a yard and she also came in with the style in mind.

I would have loved to share the style but I do not have the resources for it so, I'll just explain what I saw.

The dress looked like a tube dress and a net jacket and it could also be sewn together, I think the decision is in the hands of the fashion designer and the client.

"How do you want yours? Together or like a jacket and tube?" I had to confirm with her what she wanted, "Whatever looks good is fine by me." Her response allowed me to make use of my good judgment.

I went to work immediately she felt after taking her measurement.

I decided to make the outfit a two-piece outfit, a jacket and a tube dress, so here's the front bodice which I decided to make in the form of a princess dart using her body measurement.

And here is the back bodice as well after cutting out the marks made on the fabric.

Then I went ahead to cut the down bodice, a made a slightly fitted A-line dress as seen in the picture.

This outfit doesn't require a lining, so all I did was to join each side together attach the zipper and then turn the neckline using a ribbon to give it a finished look.

Now I proceeded to the net.

This is a very fragile fabric that needs to be handled with care.

Here, I had already cut out the front and back bodice, the back had no zipper but the front had buttons and pressing studs.

I proceeded to join each piece gently, shoulder to shoulder and I also fixed the sleeve.

For the dress, it had a flounce around the knee which I quickly finished up using a pleat to give it the flounce effect, since her fabric wasn't enough for the flare flounce.