The Making stage of the Shirt dress

 The next stage of my 'biker' look shirt dress... I'm actually really enjoying this project as I find it so interesting how all the pattern templates I cut out fit all together and create a garment! I love the process and seeing it all coming together and most of all the final outcome.

 To start with I inserted both the breast dart and the diamond shaped darts on the front and the back.

The next step was to create the button stand, to do this ironed on the interfacing of the two front dress pieces on the wrong side of the material to give it more strength. I then folded over 1cm and pressed it, I then folded over another 3 cm to match up with the notches and pressed it then secured it with a straight stitch, I repeated this on the other front piece.

I then attached the front and the back dress pieces together by the shoulder seams.

 I was then onto creating the sweat heart sleeve, I firstly inserted the piping to go around the bottom of the sleeve. It was a quick and simple process, all I did was fold my chosen material on the bias so it would give it that extra stretch. I then measured the correct length and shape ready to be cut out, I then placed the made piping on one of the right sides of the sleeve and stitched to secure it in place, I then placed to other sleeve on top with right sides together and stitched.These sleeves would be bagged out so I repeated this process four times for each sleeve piece.

 I then attached the sleeves by matching up the two notches for the back and the one notch for the front and stitch with a 1cm seam allowance.

I then simply stitched the sides of the front and back together from the end of the sleeves to the hem.

The Collar

The next stage was the collar and collar stand...

 I started of by stitching right sides together of the collar and bagging it out and ironing to give the sharp edges and points

I then started to attach the collar stand, I matched up the notches with right sides together and stitched one side of the collar stand to one side of the collar with a 1cm seam allowance, I repeated this with the other side. 

This is where i'm up to so far but hopefully I will  be attaching the collar to the dress tomorrow! and also hemming the bottom of the dress. I will also be discussing and sampling out my alternatives of buttons!