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Falling All 'Olive' You Dress

Olivia
Nov 10, 2012
2 min read

Yesterday I was feeling a little inspired. For awhile I thought I was getting sick but after a cup of tea, I started to feel better and I knew I could not waste such inspiration.

I finally started organising my room and it looks ten times better now than before.

But now I have a ton of fabric that I have to use because it's taking up so much space!

I knew exactly which fabric I wanted to use.

It was an olive print fabric that I bought months ago in hopes to make a dress to wear to work

I got it out of the bag, and laid it out.

I was very upset when I realised that the lady had cut my fabric crooked. So that was at least two inches gone from the dress. At this point, I had given up any hope of wearing this dress to work.

I used this pattern to make the dress. It actually is very easy to follow!

I know this is ghetto but I've said before, I don't own paper weights.

2 points for being innovative!

Once I cut out the fabric with the pattern, I was able to piece them together on my mannequin.

This is what the top was looking like.

I put pins in the side and started stitching.

So when I was finished with that, I got the bottom back. I pinned those pieces in place, and stitched.

It ended up looking like this:

(Oh hi Rukia! She wouldn't move out of my shot)

Once I added the front pieces and stitched the back close, it was now time to add the zip in the front.

I used a 14 inch zip.

Here it is shown simply pinned in place:

Once everything lined up, I stitched.

I cleaned it up by hemming the neckline, armpit and the bottom and I was done!

Here is the finished product!!!

And here it is belted!

And to think I finished this in one night!

There were a few times when I wanted to give up. There were a few times when I wanted to set fire to the darn thing. But I stuck with it and I pushed through.

I even wore the dress today when I went to help out at my church fair: