Diy Puff Sleeve Dress! | Pattern Available! | Selkie Inspired Puff Dress Tutorial ✨so dreamy✨

[Music] my fabric just came in the mail i'm really excited we're gonna go get we're grabbing the it honestly i'm excited i want to see this dress i'm so excited about this dress you guys i don't even have to say how excited i am you guys know how much i love just big amounts of fabric in my hands so here i have eight yards of fabric total five of those yards are of this crystal organza and three of those yards are of this crepe back satin fabric and today we're making the silky inspired puff dress so the other night i was scrolling on pinterest the way you do and i came across this photo right here i literally like jaw dropped i was like like what excuse do i have to make this dress like i need this in my life and i kind of jokingly like said to my brother like hey like what if i just bought fabric and made this really unnecessary dress and he said do it and now the fabric's at my house so the dress i am going to be making today is inspired by the brand silky i've been seeing this puff dress kind of everywhere lately and it's like the one with a really tiny waist like it doesn't have a waist just like from under your bust it's just like fabric but i don't really like it i think the silhouette is kind of unflattering in my opinion so i'm going to be making it so that it starts at my waist and it's a little bit different and i'm not making this super short one that i've been seeing like everybody wear either the one i saw had these really thick ruffles on it which i'm kind of in love with so i'm going to be making it a slightly different version than like the other people i've seen and i am like so pumped to wear this dress so the original one i believe is 270 dollars and i bought all this fabric for 30 dollars it's already a good win and i got this fabric from a website called fabric wholesale direct i've been buying a lot of my stuff from them lately so i will link the fabric that i bought down below in case you guys want to buy it too and so i got the organza in the off-white color but they were unfortunately out of the lining fabric that i wanted so i had to settle for this crepe back satin fabric which i know satin as a lining isn't always the best idea but i have faith in myself and they also only had it in this white color which i really wanted something off-white to go underneath it so i might try to dye it with coffee i've seen people do that before i know it doesn't work very well on synthetic fabrics but i'm kind of desperate here so i think i'm going to try to do it anyway so i actually have some soaking downstairs right now and a pot of coffee just to see if it works at all and if it does you guys will be seeing that process too so i think i'm going to go ahead and start cutting out all of our pieces i'm so excited briganza and satin are definitely not the easiest fabrics to work with especially when you're cutting out everything just because they love to like slide around and mess up all your measurements but i really love how both of these fabrics work together to make this dress and most of the fabric for this dress goes into all the skirts so the first pieces you're going to want to cut out are of course the front pieces so we have the center and the two side pieces here we have the back pieces and i just used a basic rectangle piece for the back because we're going to be adding in darts here are the big giant sleeve pieces and you're going to cut four out of the organza total these are by far the biggest sleeves i've ever sewn here is the main skirt piece so this is the one that's going to go on top and this one's a big rectangle piece i'm going to cut out two of these this piece is folded in half because we need these to be super big and then this is our lining skirts we're going to cut out two of these as well and this one is going to be a circle skirt so we reduce the amount of fabric at the waist a little bit next up is the organza skirts that are going to be going underneath the main layer and the waist of the lining circle skirts and these circle skirts are actually the same but the amount of fabric going around is obviously double and last up is the ruffle pieces and there's not an exact length measurement for these i just cut out as many as i could with all of my leftover fabric make sure they were all 10 inches wide alrighty welcome to my kitchen so coffee dyeing time i just finished cutting out all the pieces it took me quite a long time so this is the test little piece i did earlier the coffee didn't take a lot it's just a very light color difference but it's actually it matches my organza a lot better and it kind of mutes this really bright white so i think i'm going to go for it anyway so i'm going to just be using this um instant coffee that my dad had and i'm going to just put it in a pot i think i don't know what else to use so i think i'm going to go ahead and use this big pot it nicely fits all my fabric even though it is still kind of tight but i don't think i have a better option so i'm just going to fill this up with water and let it boil first that's going to be a lot of coffee so i just took it off the heat because i don't think i want it to be all the way boiling i just wanna like hot enough so that the coffee takes you know so i think i'm just going to go ahead and add it in until i like the color of it i don't know how many cups are in here so i don't really know how to measure it out so i think we just have to go for it so i think i'm going to let it cool down just a little bit before i add in the fabric because i don't want it to be too hot for the fabric and then i'm just going to really hope that it works also i really like the smell of coffee but i actually never drink coffee warm drinks just hurt my stomach for some reason okay so the coffee is finally it's not hot anymore it's just warm so i am going to finally go ahead and put the fabric in which i am really nervous about but i really hope this works i think i'm going to run these under water first so that the coffee takes all evenly and there's no dry spots on it because we really want this to be a nice solid color so i guess i'm just gonna just plop it in there so it is soaking now and i'm kind of nervous about it because it looks really dark right now but i know that if i were to wash it out it would just turn white right now so i put this pot on top of it to completely submerge it and i'm going to go watch a tv show and i'll be back in about 45 minutes to see what it looks like okay so i think that i'm going to let it steep for at least another hour because it's not quite the color that i want it to be and i know it's going to wash out quite a bit okay i let it soak for another hour or so and it is really nice and dark in the pot and i washed one out and it just turned to like the warmer side of white so it's not super dark but i really like it so i'm just going to go ahead and wash these out all individually and then hang them all up to dry overnight okay so here is the fabric after it's been dyed and it's just a very like slight difference in color but i do think it's a little bit nicer than this really harsh white especially with the organza i feel like it just matches it a little bit better than this white did okay i am very excited to start sewing this dress but i only have like an hour to an hour and a half of sunlight left so i'm going to see how much i can get done today and the first thing i'm going to do is work on all the bodice pieces so i'm going to sew our organza to the lining pieces so for each lining piece we're going to use two pieces of organza just to make it a little bit more opaque i think it'll look really nice so i'm going to start with just the side pieces first so for all of our bodice pieces there is the lining that is the front side with the organza over it and then there's also a lining on the inside so for the inside linings we don't need to put any organza on it so we're only going to put organzo on half of the lining pieces that we cut out so i'm going to take two of our side pieces and set them aside and then with one of our side pieces i'm going to put two layers of organza together and make sure that they line up really nicely then i'm going to lay it down and i'm going to pin around all the edges and i'm going to baste around it with my machine and i'm going to do that with the side pieces the front pieces and the back pieces and now that all of our pieces have organza on them it's time to start assembling the bodice so what i'm going to do is i'm going to take our front center piece so then i'm going to take one of our side pieces and i'm going to sew it to the side i'm going to take the other one sew it to the side of the front and i'm going to take our rectangle pieces and sew those to the sides and these ones are shorter because we haven't added an armhole here i find it easier to do that afterwards so i'm just going to make sure they line up on the bottoms and sew all of these together okay so i just sewed up the whole bodice and now i'm going to sew the remaining lining pieces together the exact same way that we just sewed this one [Music] okay now that the bodice pieces are sewn it is time to work on my favorite part the big giant very poofy sleeves so yesterday i made some bias tape from scratch and basically all you have to do is cut your fabric on a 45 degree angle cut it so it's about like an inch and a half thick and then fold both of the edges in and to iron it and so this is our single fold bias tape and you can also buy this at like joanne's or any fabric store but their bias tape is often a little bit thicker so i wanted something a little bit on the thinner side so that when we put it around the sleeves we're going to be putting elastic through it so i want it to really be able to gather it in a nice way so the very first thing i'm going to do on the sleeves is i'm going to take two pieces like we did before and i'm just going to baste them together and for these ones there aren't any lining pieces it's just gorganza so i'm just going to waste around it really quickly and now i'm finally going to show you guys how to make french seams because i've mentioned them like a million times on my channel just because they're a good alternative to a serger if you want to finish all of your seams so what i'm going to do is i'm going to put our sides together of our sleeves and we're going to put the wrong sides together first which is not what we usually do and now i'm going to cut down our seam very close to where we just sewed it so we're going to take our piece we're going to flip it wrong sides out and we're going to basically sew down the seam again and we're going to push the raw edge that we just sewed in very close to the seam pin it in place and then sew down this again and now when we turn it right side out we have this fully encased seam and then if you also want to make the seam lay nice and flat you can push the seam that we just sewed to one side and just stitch down it right here and now before we start ruffling the sleeves we need to know where to start ruffling those sleeves is i just tried the bodice on and i put pins where i want the top of it to be and i need to cut off quite a bit so i'm just going to baste a line right above these pins and cut it off and then i'm also going to cut out an armhole and baste around that as well so i'm going to fold this in half and then very carefully just cut across the top and now i'm going to just cut an armhole right here and now i was going to re-baste around this but i think that everything is sewn in place enough where i don't really have to and i'm going to use this piece to cut those same exact pieces out of our lining piece as well and now that we have cut the armholes i'm going to attach our sleeves to the bottom of it so where we have this big loop here i'm going to take the bottom of it i'm going to line up the bottom seam with this center seam here and then i'm just going to pin and sew this all the way around but when we get back to the top parts i'm going to leave about half an inch at the top where we want the finished edge and i'm not going to sew the sleeves there this looks so cute and now it's finally time to use that bias tape that we made so this is going to go around the very big curve of the sleeve so starting where we stopped sewing on the sleeve we're basically going to continue that line with our bias tape so we're going to take one of the folded edges and we're going to make that follow that seam and we're going to sew it until we get to the other side of the sleeve and then we're going to stop and you can also fold in this little part of the bias tape just so that we have a finished edge on it and so i'm just going to very carefully sew right on this fold here now that that's sewn all the way around you can fold this whole thing up and i'm going to sew on this edge of it to make a full casing [Music] and now that we have this casing here we can go in from one of the ends and thread through some elastic and now we have our puffy sleeve so now once we have it to a size that fits us comfortably i'm just going to put some marks right here on the start of our casing on both sides so i was just experimenting with the sleeves a little bit and this is the one that i showed you guys originally and this is the second one that i did and i just top stitched right next to the edge and i think it makes it lay a lot nicer and flatter so i'm going to go ahead and take the elastic out of this one and then just top stitch right across the top and now we also have to make a casing for the bottom of the sleeves to put more elastic through and because we have two layers of organza here i think i'm going to sew two lines parallel to each other the perfect size for our elastic to go through and because we still have to add in the hem at the bottom i'm going to do this three inches above and so because we sewed the seam here i realized we can't just make it go all the way around so i'm going to insert elastic on both sides and then just sew it so it stops right here on both sides of the seam [Music] and then again once i like the way it feels i'm just going to cut it and sew it right here like i did this one and now the last thing to do on the sleeve is to just add a little hem on the bottom now that the sleeves are done next up we're going to attach the lining to the bodice so i'm just going to take our lining piece and i'm going to line up the top seams and then when i get to the sleeves i'm just going to fold them in and then i'm going to sew the armholes all the way around that's why we didn't sew it at the top so that we can just go straight across for this section and we're just going to sew the top right now we're not going to sew these sides or the bottom and now when we turn it out we have a nice lining and it should fit around the sneeze really nicely like this all right i'm finally back at the sewing grind i'm so happy to be sewing today i was thinking about the dress the other day and i realized that i forgot to put darts in the back so i'm going to go ahead and do that very quickly so on the back panels luckily we haven't sewn the bottoms together so i'm basically just going to fold this in half and make two separate darts that are even and they're about three inches away from this seam and six inches long and it's finally time to start working on these skirts so i'm going to take our rectangle skirt pieces and i'm just going to sew these side seams together really quickly with french seams and now ruffle time so i'm going to go ahead and sew these all together into one very long strip and then after that i'm just going to do two parallel basting lines all the way around the top edge took a lot of thread but it's finally all sewn so i split the skirt into four parts evenly and i'm going to mark out four even spaces on the skirt and then i'm going to line up those quarters and pin those in place and now that they're all pinned on the skirt we have these giant loops so i'm just going to ruffle it until it fits nicely in this panel and instead of using pins for this part i'm going to use these little clips because it'll just stay a lot better and it won't slide as much [Music] and i'm just going to go ahead and sew all around this and i'm going to leave the seam allowance pretty large here so we have a lot of extra fabric on the skirt side it's so fluffy and now that the ruffles are all attached they're looking so good i'm so excited about it i need to figure out how to finish those seams because this stuff unravels like crazy so the reason we left such a big seam allowance is because we're going to basically hem that edge basically i'm going to cut the seam that has the ruffles attached very very thin and then now that i cut down these little ruffles right here i'm going to take this side with the skirt i'm going to fold this over and fold it over again then we're going to stitch it right here above the seam so that it encases all the raw edges so next up we have to figure out how we're getting the dress on and off so we're going to put a zipper in the back and right now this is just a big loop so what i'm going to do is i'm going to fold it in half and cut a straight line down the back about about nine inches down so now that all the ruffles are sewn it is time to put two basting stitches all across the top and now before we start gathering up this skirt we need to sew the side seams of both of the circle skirts and i'm going to do french seams on the organza one again and then i'm also going to put a 9-inch slit down the back of both of them to keep the skirts even like we did on the other one and next i just took both of the circle skirts and pinned their waists together and i'm just going to go ahead and baste around the top really quickly and now we can finally start ruffling the skirt we're going to pin our very big rectangle skirt to the waist of our circle skirt so first i'm going to line up the backs and make sure they fit together then i'm going to line up the centers and the sides and then just going to ruffle this accordingly and i am very very excited because the next step is to finally sew the skirt to the bodice first i'm only going to be sewing the skirt to the organza layer of the bodice and now it's time to finish up the lining in the back so it's really important that we get all the finished scenes on this dress as you guys probably noticed the organza unravels like crazy so what i'm going to do is i'm going to lift up the back part of the lining i'm going to push the skirts all to the side and try to loop this edge of the lining back to the part that we just sewed so we're going to have to kind of shove this all in here and i'm going to pin the top parts all together because it's really important that these all line up exactly and then i'm going to turn it over to the side that we just sewed and i'm going to sew right on top of this seam so they lay perfectly together and i'm also just going to baste this for the first time around just to make sure that it all works out nicely and now the back is fully encased and the front still looks all nice and pretty so i'm just going to go back and restitch that for realsies and also cut all those seams invisible zipper time so i'm just going to go ahead and insert an invisible zipper right down the back and making sure to get all the layers of tulle and lining it just has to be really precise because there's a lot of things happening here so i just went ahead and sewed the little top edges of the zipper back so they wouldn't be hanging out so there's not really a great way to finish this seam what i'm going to do instead is i'm going to do a few zigzag stitches down it and then i'm going to cut the seam and hope that it doesn't unravel too much and now the last thing to do is to hem it finally which is very exciting but also going to take literally forever with all of this so what i'm planning on doing is i'm going to try to get my rolled hem foot working just so i can get it done a little bit faster but a regular hem would work as well it's just going to take a very long time and after about an hour and a half of hemming the dress is finally done [Music] and here's the finished dress [Music] i say this every time but seriously guys i am so in love with this dress the design is just so pretty and spinning in it was literally like this seriously might be my favorite dress to spit in and i say that a lot but if i had a tear list this might be the top one these are definitely the biggest hustles i've ever made and i honestly kind of want to go bigger i just had so much fun wearing them and also just a fun little tidbit i literally waited for the warmest day of the week to film modeling this dress and it ended up being super super windy that day so i was still freezing anyway i hope you guys like this tutorial i'm sorry it's a bit of a long one but i hope that you guys enjoyed it if you end up making this dress i always get really excited to see them i say that every time but seriously feel free to send me a picture on instagram and i post new videos on friday so i hope to see you guys there [Music] bye

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Length: 20min 47sec (1247 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 19 2021