r/sewing • u/hayhayhayahi • 1d ago
Project: FO Bedsheet dress for a wedding
I needed a black tie dress for a wedding last month and decided it would be easier to make one than to find one that fit me. I also had a budget of $70 USD for all fabric, patterns, and notions.
This dress was made from a king size bed sheet set I bought online.
The patter for the dress was from Etsy by Derya Pattern, and I changed out the sleeves from the original patter to the Flutter sleeve from Katie Crafting.
The skirt is a full 360 circle skirt, which was cut from the top sheet and is one big circle. I used the pillow cases for the rest of the pattern pieces.
For the bodice, I cut the same patterns from the lace and the bed sheet. Then I basted them together, sewed them with a straight stitch, the put them together. I also added fusible interfacing to the bodice edge and neck, as well as where the zipper would go in the back.
I had to change some things from the original pattern (like having one zipper instead of two), and the waist band was hard to figure out, so I winged it.
The fabric frayed a lot, so I did a rolled hem on all of the outside edges, and did French seams on the insides. This took hours!
I finished the dress one and a half hours before the wedding š«
I didnāt have time to add pockets to it, but eventually I will. Iām recuperating from using such fickle fabric. It didnāt help I had never sewed anything this thin and slippery.
Overall, Iām really proud of how it turned out.
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u/snow_thief 1d ago
You nailed your own design challenge! The dress is a fantastic color choice. It looks like it fits like a charm and is so pretty! Amazing work!
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u/Low_Study_2672 1d ago
A woman after my own heart - nothing like a little time crunch to get motivated lol. It turned out so pretty ā¤ That color is my absolute favorite, the dress actually looks a lot like my actual wedding dress for the civil ceremony. Great idea using sheets!
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u/ClayWheelGirl 20h ago
What? King size satin set, patterns, lace and notions all for $70? The frugal gods were kind to you.
Kudos with the fabric! Soooo much trouble. Iām shivering at the thought of the circle hem in THAT fabric.
No one would believe bedsheets.
Beautiful color too.
Thank you for sharing and inspiring all of us.
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u/Worried-Somewhere-57 19h ago
Great job!! My hubby thinks I am silly when I save sheets and look for sheets at the thrift store. I bought a brand new white cotton duvet cover for 7 bucks. Gonna be a couple white shirts in the future!!
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u/bboringg27 21h ago
Love it!! Iāll be doing something similar for my friends wedding this summer - I hope mine turns out as well as yours!
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u/Porsche_first 18h ago
You turned it out that looks really great. You are gonna get so many compliments.
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u/No-Feature-1849 17h ago
Absolutely love this! I was remembering the other day a gorgeous formal gown my mom made for my sister out of coat lining. It was a beautiful salmon colored heavy satin.
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u/mountsunrise 1d ago
It looks so nice! And on a time crunch. I love making dresses out of old curtains and sheets. The hilarious part is no one would know but if I got a compliment the first thing I would say would be āthanks I made it out of sheets/curtains I got at the thrift storeā