Sewing A Maternity Evening Dress For Christmas 🎄 Skirt & Sleeves
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- I've found myself in need of a festive dress to wear during the holidays, that'll keep me nice and warm and fit over my growing bump (and, let's be honest, food baby). Let's finish sewing it!
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A sparkly brooch in the center to help gather the front would look stunning as well! Love the dress, you look beautiful!
I was thinking of one of those kilt pins and still put the belt on if she wanted too
Sewing a stretchy fabric AND velvet .... You did a very good job ! It's very flattering and the green suits you !
Your instinct to cut the bodice front so that it stayed in the shape you wanted but also created a new measurement at the waist was exactly correct! Some pattern shapes get so weird to accommodate fun tucka and gathers 😅
It looks great!
It looks so classy and the colour is perfect! 😍I would suggest using an elastic that is wider/stronger and use that to gather just at the front where most of the excess fabric is, instead of all the way from one side seam to the other. This would be just to keep the gathers in place, you could still wear the belt over it. I'm not a professional, but I believe the elastic you used was too thin for what you were trying to achieve 😅 Happy Christmas to you and your family! 💚
Agreed; that fabric is a bit bulky and heavy for such a thin elastic! She could also do a double row of that same elastic if she didn’t want to go buy a thicker one (or didn’t have time before Christmas).
I love the dress, you look great in it. To keep the gathering in the front from slipping to the sides you could use your thin straps idea, just on the inside of the dress.
Great job!!!
I absolutely love the dress! It looks beautiful on you.
It's so cute!! To be extra festive you could do a gold or a silver belt--or to be really tacky, a wide red ribbon tied in a bow.
Merry Christmas!!
Love the belted look, and it gives you so many options for variety! Something sparkly would also be really pretty for an occasion that called for a lot of glam. Love it!
The dress came out fantastic! 🎉
I think you will keep tugging and pulling at the gathers in the front all the time if you don't stitch them in place somehow.
Maybe you could make a tiny waistband with an elastic in it and sandwich it between the bodice and the skirt. You could still put a belt over it.
Love that sweater!! ❤ 12:25
Loepsie, you can wear a brooch in the front too to hide the gathers. Pin the gathers in the reverse with safety pins and put a brooch at the front. Maybe a nice sparkley one for Christmas
The scrunching would also look good with a broach
What a great idea!
For the sleeve cuff, if you had folded your sewn tube in half first, you would have been left with a finished edge on the cuff. Both raw edges would have been seen to the sleeve together, if that makes sense. Your way left you with a beautiful finish on the inside though! Nice work!
Beautiful dress! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! ✨🎅🎄☃✨🎉🎇
You look Bella and Merry Christmas and happy birthday new year from Simon from🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada 🇨🇦 💗 🇨🇦
Adding belt loops would make it easier to keep the fabric in place where you want it to be! Beautiful work, you look wonderful :)
This dress turned out so pretty! Perfect for the holliday season. I think maybe the gathering sliding to the sides could be helped by adding some belt loops that hold the dress in place on the belt a bit more?
That came out so fantastic! I love everything about that dress, but especially the sleeves. Well done Lucy! Happy christmas
Loepsie, you look marvelous! The dress is beautiful, and the color is fantastic!
Wishing you and Robert a Wonderful Holiday Season,
xoxo's Sandie🤗❄☃🎄
You look fabulous in your new dress, wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy new year ❤
Merry Yule!
It's so pretty!!!
I wonder if a decorative pin in the front might keep the gathers in place and be a nice focal point? Similar concept to the belt buckle.
The dress is so beautiful.
Prachtig!😊
Adding a couple small belt loops at the waist will keep the belt in place & the gathers won’t move as much.
Absolutely beautiful!!
The dress is lovely and so are you. Merry Christmas!
You’re so gorgeous no matter what you wear! Congratulations on your pregnancy! Much love, from Texas USA
1:44 I know what is wrong with the pattern - I made the same mistake a few months ago - but English isn't my first language, so I hope I can explain it clearly. When you extended the shoulder line, you did it while keeping the same angle. As a result, the shoulder seam ends up higher, causing the other side of the piece to be lengthened as well, hence the excess fabric. It would have been necessary to adjust the angle of the shoulder line so that, once extended, it reaches the same height as on the original pattern. However, you did a great job fixing this mistake; the dress looks fantastic!
So pretty!! he did a great job and it’s a beautiful color on you.
That looks fabulous,and drapes beautifully.😊
It came out so lovely! The finished dress is pretty much exactly what I was picturing when you described it in the first video, so well done!
Well done dear.💜 It looks beautiful on you and is so festive. Your a very pretty Mama to be😊! And just think next year will be baby's first Christmas.
You did it and I love it! Great job
You can do small(or big) pleats in the front and sew them in place.
Oh the way the color changes on that fabric 😍 Lovely work!!
It’s gorgeous ❤
Vrolijk Kerstfeest
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Oh my gosh, it's beautiful! You look great in it.
A dress which is really (really!) popular for pregnant folks who sew is the Myosotis pattern by Deer and Doe. It is oversized by design but still really fashionable, I sewed it for myself when I was pregnant and I still wear it with zero alterations! I also sewed view 2 of the Burnside Bibs by Sew House Seven, I basically lived in those at the end! Might be nice to treat yourself to a couple of patterns :)
I am going to look that up. Really some maternity dresses myself.
This Looks increadable, the Most wonderful color both for you and the occasions, very elegant, very flattering, you found the perfekt Design!!!
Merry Christmas!
Loving that color on you! And loving working on my stretch velvet maternity Christmas dress alongside you lol
It’s perfect! You look amazing! 17:40
for the adjusting: use safety pins and pin the parts you keep having to readjust, that way you may still have to adjust it but you will have to adjust it way less. you can try to pin it from the inside or you can just hide the pins inside the pleats or under the belt.
I couldn't tell which way you tried and didn't like the elastic gathering on the waist so disregard if it's how you did it... I've found sewing the elastic onto just the seam allowance looks really good and you can't see the stitching from the right side of the garment. I haven't tried this specific elastic gathering on stretch velvet though!
Conguration 🎉❤❤❤
It looks really nice and the green looks gorgeous on you. I was wondering if some wider elastic, maybe 2cm,could be used to hold the gathers only in place so you won't have to fuss with the gathers. And double needle is very good for top stitching strechy fabric, definitely recommend.
Veselé Vianoce.
It looks beautiful on you. Really good job!
It looks wonderful. Have a lovely Christmas.xx
Such a cute dress!!
Looks lovely. Perhaps a channel for some button hole elastic would be a solution for the front. You could pull from both ends of the channel.
Button hole elastic works great on kids clothes for right sizing the waist.
You could maybe try 'permanently' gathering the front bust a little bit? At least some so you don't have to fuss with it as much?
Beautiful!
It turned out so pretty 🥲 The way the fabric drapes is lovely. I'm thinking a wider belt would help your gathers stay in place better? I myself was imagining a belt made from the velvet that ties in to a bow or knot (back or front) with long straps hanging down.
Just needs belt loops to keep the belt in place! love the green velvet.
I love this!!!!
I want this dress 😍
You're definitely looking like a rich mama lounging in her velvet dress 😅
Lovely ❤
A brooch might work instead of a belt to keep all of the fabric held to the front
You look so beautiful in that color! It came out very well 😊. I can’t remember if you own a serger. If not, and you are going to keep sewing knits, a serger/overlocker would be very handy. I’ve had mine for 20 years and it’s invaluable for sewing knits and finishing woven seams. And for some reason, after watching you for several years, I just realized - you mostly have an “American” accent. I guess I expect Europeans to have more of a British accent. Did you learn English from an American teacher, maybe?
You did a wonderful job on this dress! Thank you for many hours of great content this year. Blessings to you and your family this Christmas. I do hope you include baby and parenting content. I believe that your followers would realize that your channel content would evolve as your life and priorities change with time. 😀💖🌟
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2:18 im not sure but maybe you can take out the extra fabric from the shoulders instead of the bottom of the waist.
You look gorgeous! Makes me miss my pregnancy belly tbh, dressing my postpartum breastfeeding body for the holidays is a bit harder than it was in pregnancy…
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Looks like satin. It must be stretch velour. Are you going to make breast feeding tops too?