Happy New Week dear creative hivers, feels good to make it to another week, which sometimes signifies a fresh start for most of us, here is me wishing everyone a productive and fulfilling week, and may all our goals for the week be achieved without much stress.

Last week, I shared my progress on the making process of a bridesmaid dress which was almost done but I got stuck getting inspiration for the sleeve styles, you know how a sleeve can make or mar a dress, and for me, the sleeves is everything because it can take a simple looking dress from one to hundred, the reason I'm usually very intentional about my sleeve style, and thankfully I finally got the right inspiration to get the dress completed.

I want to start by thanking those who commented and gave their suggestions in my previous post, you all encouraged and inspired me the reason I love this community, apart from learning from your creative journey, the support, and encouragement are a whole lot I get from this community that I don't take for granted. I love you all.

My sister who is the bridesmaid had already told me she wanted a bit of
drama in her sleeve style but still with a simple and unique statement, you already know me to be the dramatic sleeve queen, and I sure did not disappoint her by making this long sleeves with full flare at its hem.

One unique detail you will notice about this dress and sleeve is how I creatively combined the Chantilly and tulle to give stylish and unique details, each on both sides, and it fits perfectly with the already-made bodice.

It is a very easy to make sleeve, and I will be sharing the process with us, you can make use of any fabric of your choice to achieve this sleeve style

Process

The upper part of the sleeve was achieved using a long basic sleeve pattern, which stops just before the wrist,

To make the flare part, the ankara fabric I used wasn't up to one meter, so I had to manage the fabric by folding it into 6 folds, check the images, you will understand better,

First in two folds, then the two folds into four, and the four into eight folds, I hope you got that part, using this method, I was to cut both flare sleeves together at once, the round sleeve/wrist divided by 6.28 which is a constant determined the radius.