Happy National Donut Day! Earlier this week, when I discovered that Donut Day was approaching, I decided it was just the deadline I needed to sew up not one but TWO donut themed dresses. So, there will be not one but TWO Donut Dress posts on this here blog. Do'not even act like you are surprised. This is what happens when I have too much time on my hands!
For National Donut Day, Krispie Kreme is giving out one free donut! How super amazing is that. And those folks were working hard at the Kreme when I popped by there today. It was a madhouse! Who knew that folks would go so nuts over donuts?!
I've had this fabric in my stash forever...so long that all I can tell you is that I scored it from the thrift store years ago. I decided to pair the small print with a bid and bold polka dot. Two days ago, I started cutting into the fabric...well, the best I could...
Every time I do, I gotta contend with this. WHY IS THIS A THING, CAT PEOPLE?! The moment she hears that tissue paper on the floor, she comes a running and a sitting. It's hilarious.
I decided to do the same dress pattern mashup as I used on this pencil dress but decided to ditch the button.
The red dotted fabric was leftover from my superhero dress. This means I actually used fabric already in my stash for this dress...that never happens!
I have decided that there are three things I hate the most about sewing:
1. PUTTING IN A SLEEVE. Ugh, I get stabbed at least 50,000 times but the needles holding the sleeve in place as I struggle to get it around the machine. Someone come teach me a magical sleeve sewing trick!
2. HEMMING A CIRCLE SKIRT. Thankfully, I didn't have to do that here. Because I literally feel like I'm pinning and sewing a circle skirt for DAYS...but they are my favorite!
3. PUTTING IN A ZIPPER. It's not that it's hard to put in a zip...it's just that it's usually the final step and it's at the point in dress-making where I just WANNA BE DONE and NEVER SEW AGAIN. So my patience is pretty much extinct.
But then I wear the dress and feel all proud and start thinking of the next dress Ima bout to hate making.
Look, maw! Matched up backside!
Also, POCKETS. All my dresses have them. It's mandatory.
Stay tuned! I'll have another Donut Dress to share with y'all super soon!
On the off chance that your question was not rhetorical (‘cuz everyone knows sleeves are the worst, and zippers should come with fairies to pop them in for us), have you tried sewing the sleeves in the flat instead of the round? Much easier. And a bias hem facing is the magic trick that can hem a circle skirt without a single pin. Oh, and zippers can go in earlier, if you attach the skirt pieces before sewing the side seams up (hems are the worst for me, so I try to set them in early, otherwise I get hung up on my least favourite part of the process, instead of getting to enjoy my new dress...). If, however, you already knew all that, enjoy your wicked cute dress!!
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