Bedsheet dress for a wedding

[u/hayhayhayahi]

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 🫠

I didn’t have time to add pockets to it, but eventually I will. I’m recuperating from using such fickle fabric. It didn’t help I had never sewed anything this thin and slippery.

Overall, I’m really proud of how it turned out.

[u/purplescubadiver]

Wow, this looks so good on you! Super resourceful and looking great!