Happy New week, dear lovely creators, it feels good to start the week where it feels like home and just right, here in the Needleworkmonday community. Wishing you all an amazing week ahead. I hope this new week brings us joy, creativity, and fulfillment in all our endeavors.

Today, I will be sharing with you the dress-making process of this beautiful A-line dress I made for my daughter. It's the holiday season over here, which means we mothers are currently working overtime taking care of our children, trust me, it isn't easy, these past few days have been filled with shouting my lungs out. Children can be a handful as they never get tired and always find something to get busy with; they don't care what it is, as long as they are having fun.

As a mom, it's been a challenge to balance taking care of them while i work at home, so I sat them down today to watch me make a dress for one of them, and this is the second time we are bonding through sewing since the holiday started. Since I have had this leftover fabric for a long time, I guess it's now time to put it to good use. They were fascinated by the sewing process, and couldn't stop asking plenty of questions along the way, and I tried to answer the best way I could.

Materials Used

• Ankara fabric

• Thread

Cutting And Sewing Process

• First, I folded the fabric into two, and then in a triangle or bias form, and there, I drafted an A-line pattern on it.

• Cutting it out, Here is what the front and back pattern look like, the differnce is the neckline, as the front neckine is deeper than that of the back.

• Continuing, I joined them by the shoulder area

• Using an ankara strip cut in bias form too, I piped the neckline neatly

• Then I went further to cut the sleeve pattern, which I pleated around both armhole area.

• Moving on, I joined the sides of the A-line dress.

• To extend the dress length, I cut out double the measurement of around the dress hem, then gathered it and sewed it around the dress hem.

And that completes the sewing process.

Glad today's energy has been put into something useful, and there was less scolding and shouting, as they were both followed through the making process and were looking forward to the final look, and my daughter couldn't wait to try it on.

I'm glad I could spend quality time with my children while doing what I love, sewing. There's something special about sharing your craft with your kids and watching them learn and grow. Today's session was a great bonding experience, and I hope we have time for many more.

All images used in this post are mine

Thank you for reading.