Happy New week, dear Hive creators. I hope you're all having an amazing Monday so far. Wishing everyone a fabulous week ahead.

Glad to make it to another Needleworkmonday, a platform that encourages us to share our creative needlework stories and also get to learn from other needleworkers all over the world. Today, I will be sharing with you my latest sewing project, a simple shift dress with funnel sleeves made for a friend.

This dress was made using three yards of Kampala fabric, which was leftover of the fabric after making her daughter's turtle neck dress, which I shared last week. She had hoped the fabric would be enough to make her a shift or free-fitted dress with free sleeves as well, calculating the amount of fabric based on her body measurements. I assured her it would be enough.

The dress style can be worn by women of all ages, and if you are a beginner in sewing, this is one simple sewing project you shouldn't skip, trust me. So without further ado, let's get right into the making process.

Materials used

• Kampala fabric

• Matching colour thread

8Cutting And Sewing Process*

• I started by cutting out the back dress pattern, using a basic gown pattern with more ease and seam allowance to make it free-fitted.

• Then I cut out the back pattern as well, but with a different neckline

• I also cut out facing for the front and back

• Using the facings, I turned the neckline of the front and back using their respective facing. then made a V cut at the center front.

• I also joined the front and back of the dress at the shoulder area

• Continuing, I cut out the sleeve pattern, it's a long free sleeve, also known as funnel sleeves, because it somehow takes the shape of a funnel.

• Finally, I sewed both sleeves around both armholes then joined the sides of the dress and hemmed it neatly.

Look how simple and beautiful the finished dress looks. My friend was pleased with her new dress, I felt happy she liked it after fitting.

**All images used in this post are mine.

Thank you for reading.