A blessed new week to you all lovely creators. It's always an exciting moment for me when I start my new week on hive in this amazing community, as the encouragement helps us get better with our every needlework craft.

I spent my day making this beautiful black dress for my sister @treasuree, I'm sorry Treasure, it took this long to get it done, it's been over three weeks since my sister reached out to me to help her make a new dress, a Basque dress she particularly asked for, yea, she has seen me make this dress style for almost every lady around me and even my other sisters except her, I knew I couldn't get of this hook, at first my excuse was trying to finish up someone else's dress and when I thought I would have the time to make hers last week, I fell ill and had to take a break to the dismay of my sister because she had planned to wear her a new dress to an event organized by her school, the reason for my heartfelt apology even though I know you are the kind soul that is ever patient with me.

I woke up today feeling more energetic than I have felt in weeks, which is just the right energy needed to make this beautiful Basque dress, she had a preference for the dress to be made with black colored fabric, black is regal, don't you think, and it fits just perfectly. I spent about four hours on this dress from start to finish.

Material used

• Crepe fabric
• matching colored thread

Making Process

• I started by drafting and cutting out the dress pattern using a bustier dress pattern with Basque, and for the neckline, I chose to do a Queen Anne neckline.

• Here is the back pattern with a keyhole design on the back

• Next, I joined the patterns together and also turned them using their lining patterns for clean finishing

• I continued by joining the front and back by the shoulders

• Then I cut out a belt which I folded and joined to the side of the front gown before joining both front and back together.

• The belt helps to have to bow luke knot at the back of the dress

Finally, To complete the length, I measured around the base of the dress, and multiplied what I got by 2.5 which I used to determine the width, I gathered it before joining it to the upper gown, and the length of the base is gotten by subtracting the full length from half-length.

And here is the final beautiful look of Treasure's dress, she is yet to come for fitting, I hope this is the first notification she gets to come fit her new dress, Promise kept, I'm free for now I hope.

What do you think about this dress and what colour would you prefer if you were to have one? I would love to know.

All images used in this post are mine

Thank you for reading.❤❤