Maternity maxi @ long dress

This is what I did for the past weekend.

Two maternity long dress for a fellow friend (yup, its not for me). The material used was chiffon (sigh..) and therefore a cotton lining was used to cover the gauzy chiffon.

These were the dresses. Designed and sewed by me:
1. Fuchsia long dress



- this is such a very simple long dress. I made a separator below the bustier because the fabric pattern looks nicer to sew horizontal rather than vertical. Then, I added few pleated on the front of the dress and its done (well, technically was hard to explain).

2. Black and White long dress




- This is again a long dress but without separator (like the previous dress). I made pleats on the front neck and 2inch ruffles at the back neck and neat it with the commercial bias tape.

OK, the hard part was:
1. Fabric used was chiffon, you need to have plenty of patient to sew them.
2. She requested to have lining on the sleeves. And this is the crucial part where I burned lots of calorie. They've changed to smelly sweat.
3. I even nearly faint because of dehydrating. Too much ironing I guess.

However, I managed to get useful help from this:

- this help to stiff the fabric a bit: so that kain tu tak lari bila nak jahit.

OK, that's all. The dress might looks nice here (in pictures) and I hope it will satisfy its owner. But I did told her to expect the least from me. Heheheh..

:)

Blindhem stitch

a.k.a. jahitan sembat susup but using the machine effect.

A friend of mine asked me to alter her newly bought pants and I've used the blindhem stitch effect for hemming. Thus, I took the oppurtunity to make a simple tutorial on how to use the blindhem stitch.

You need to have the blind stitch foot plus your machine was provided with the blindhem stitches.



1. First, you can either finish the raw edge by using overedge stitches or overlocking machine, or simply fold the fabrics if you don't have one.


2. Fold the fabric, press and pin in place.


3. Then, fold underside and place the fabric under the foot.


4. Adjust the adjustable-guide to your desired length and width.


5. Sew slowly, guiding the fabric carefully along the edge and the guide.


6. Completed. Stitching is almost invisible on the right side of the fabric (if using the similar thread color).


This kind of stictching is very handful for me to sew the baju kurung edges: no need to jahit tangan.

OK, Happy Friday people and have a productive weekend ahead ;)

CNY holidays

Little update on non-sewing chattering.

• Four days of break and spent it with leisure: This is one of our hols activity.

• And, as you can see, I changed the blog layout. Ngee...
  

• And again, the flu bug hit me. Kept me awake the whole night to snot and sneeze. I have a very long lists of thing to do, however, being in this condition, sewing would be the last thing I feel like doing.

Anyway, how are you all doing? Enjoying a long-weekend of sewing, I hope.

OK, peeps. Take care and have a nice day ahead :-)

Bribe her with an ice-cream

and I got this:




thehehehe.. :D

Happy Friday peeps.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish everybody Gong Xi Fa Cai, happy long weekends break and happy sewing. I'll be going back to Terengganu for this festive holiday.

How to install snap prong buttons - manually

*the internet connection was very poor. So, I make the tutorial on the pictures itself. I hope you can upload all the pictures to get the whole clear tutorial.

OK, first you need these tools:

consists of:
1. the buttons: button and prong & snap and prong
2. a hammer
3. a wooden board with a little hole on its surface (*please note that the hole is very significant)

1. Put a mark on the fabric that you wanted to place the snap prong button


2.

3.

4. And, you are done.


That's all on how to install snap prong buttons manually- easy peasy, isn't it? But basically you can install them in the craft-shop where they got specialized machine to put one.

And btw, I purposely made this dress for this tutorial.


OK peeps, have a nice day ahead :-)

How to make Ruffles

..or gathering, ropol, whatever you call it :) - Manually

Yup, all this while I've been doing it manually, too afraid to play with the sewing machine tension plus I don't have any gathering nor ruffler foot.

OK, this is how to make it:
1. Prepare the fabric that you wanna gathered by ironing it first.


2. Begin machine sewing (straight long stitches) about 1/2 inches from the side edge - don't backstitch or knot, simply let the stitch free.


3. At the end of stitching, leave a tread tail at about 6 inches.


4. Untangle the both thread using seam ripper.


5. So now, you have two set of free-threads. One from the top thread and one from the bobbin thread.


6. The functional thread is the bobbin tread. Pull that thread slowly to form a gather with one hand and another hand holding the fabric firmly. Do this with extra careful as you do not wanna breaking the thread.


7. Gently continue to gather the fabric until the whole ruffles was created. When finished, smooth out the gathers so that they're even. Make a knot at the end of the fabric when the whole gathering with the required length was made.



8. When the above steps are done, you can move on to your next sewing step.


9. The final outcome:


OK, that's all. Hope this help. But if you still don't get this, you can read book instruction from here.

I like ruffles very much. They put 'something' on your handmade stuff.

To you peeps, Selamat mencuba :-)

Jom Jahit: Pencil cases

Since this is very nice thing to do, so again, I join the club.




I've made something very simple and quick to sew (this explained the gruesomeness outcome.. heheh).

This is what I sewed:


So, what is it?




It's a case for my cutting tool: containing scissors, pens, chalks and rotary cutter.

Well, for info, I like cutting fabric in front of the silly box which is 5m distance from the sewing room. Sometimes when I've ready to start cutting the fabric, I tend to go back to the studio as I'd left this and that. Hence, by making this cutting tool case, I'll never left anything behind and would be all prepared to cut fabric, while attending my DD watching tv.

So peeps, what you waiting for. Lets join the Jom Jahit and show us your outcome (I bet it would be awesome way better than mine)

:-)

Ottobre Sew Along?

Well, I don't think so. It turned out wayyy different. Hehehe..

This is what I sewed:




But, I think, OK la. Adding another new dress for Zahra's wardrobe.

Little confession: I don't have the magazine, so, I simply sewed based on the photo attached.

Action picture? Well, I'm off to kedai to buy her an ice-cream. Wait till we come back.

Till then, Happy weekends and Happy Sewing, peeps :-)

Jom Jahit - Sleeveless dress: In action

This is the dress that I sew for this project.

Zahra likes every cloths that I sewed for her, but against the idea of snapping pictures. I was lucky enough to see her in the dress when picked her at her taska yesterday. The first thing she did when I arrived at the taska was showing her baju, and the caretaker even said to me, 'Zahra cakap akak jahit baju ni'.

Later we went to the near kedai and I bought her ice-cream, and while eating the ice-cream, she seems ready to give her very best pose. This is it:





OK peeps, have a nice day ahead :-)