Made by Rae Jackpack Backpack GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

Made by Rae Jackpack Backpack GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

Tunic Dress

I started assembly of my tunic dress today. And here I am, about 11 hours later and I'm almost done. Today I learned the following:

• Darts
• Zig zag finishing a seam



• Facing
• Basting I considered this thoroughly and decided that my tunic is not in need of hand basting in spite of what the directions say. I might consider using a fun stitch in the back to tack down the facing to the actual dress

The facing was not really challengine to execute but it did take a sort of a long time to wrap my head around it. Actually, when I first attached the facing, I sort of blindly followed the instructions because although I knew I was reading them right, I couldn't for the life of me figure out how this was going to produce the desired finish. It did. Trust the book, I shall. I was a little doubtful that my neck was going to fit in this small hole.

All I have left is to finish facing the arm holes (is there a technical sewing term for "arm holes"?) and do the hem. I'm excited to learn how to do a hem because that's really practical information for someone short like me.

I made the tunic dress from a size small pattern and was afraid that it might not fit my hips based on the measurements given. Now I'm glad I went with the small because I could probably take the entire thing in an inch. We'll have to see the finished product, but alterations do make me a bit nervous.

Also, I was nervous about working with this fabric because feels delicate, but it's actually proven to be very easy to work with (especially after spending many days work with the knit for the next baby quilt).

Sadly, I think as it stands, it sort of looks like I'm wearing a potato sack.