Turning My Sewing Mistake Into A New Style

Hello everyone, I’m here to share with you all this dress I made. My mom and I have been laughing ever since I made it because the mistakes in the dress were endless. I made a ton of mistakes and had to make a style out of them. Over the weekend, I got invited to this creatives hangout and the theme was “Exaggeration”. I decided to make a bubu with fringes for the hangout.

This time, I was so confident that I wasn’t going to make any mistakes so I didn’t ask my mom for help. Already, my plan was to exaggerate with the fringes at the bottom of the dress but a mistake I made caused the whole dress to be an exaggeration.

I also wanted the sleeves to be big but in the end they weren’t as big as I wanted and I was too late to make any correction. I’m not sure why but apart from that puff sleeves I made, any other sleeves I’ve attempted didn’t come out how I wanted.
Anyway, I got the fabric from my mom. Ever since I transformed her old dress into a dress for myself, she’s been trusting me with fabric which makes me so happy.

I used two yards of fabric and fringes for this dress. Normally, bubus are supposed to be very long but the length of the fabric wasn’t too long so that was why I brought the idea of the fringes.

I folded the fabric into four and the marked the designed from it. I didn’t want a big neck sizd so I used 5inches for the depth of the front neck and 3inches for the back.

Every other thing on this dress was marked in free size. I didn’t know even bubus needed real sizing but now I do.
I added pockets to the sides and I thought that was going to be easy but I made a mistake by sewing them at the wrong sides. I later realized and corrected them.

Because I used free sizing, I forgot the allowance. Honestly, I thought there was no point adding allowance because the dress was already big. I didn’t know every dress needed a little bit of allowance. Lesson learned I guess. My mom started scaring me by asking what I was going to do if my fabric starts to fray since I sewed it at the ends.

I later added the fringes to the bottom of the dress and that was when I began smiling. Finally, something I could get right.

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As I said, even though the plan was to make a bubu my size, this was bigger and shorter than intended because of all the mistakes I made. There was no way correcting my mistake at the very last minute so I wore it as a new style and it matched the theme. After all, we were asked to exaggerate.

Although my mom said the mistake wasn’t obvious, I still wasn’t confident and kept on thinking my dress could fray at any slight inconvenience since I sewed them together without any allowance. But I got a number of compliments that made me happy. Above all, my mom gave me a 9/10!

I’m beginning to learn a lot from my sewing projects and now, I don’t even get stressed when I sew. The last time, I used two whole days to draft a pattern but this time, I used 5 hours to draft and sew everything. I think that’s a huge progress for me. Thanks for your time.

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