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looks amazing 🤩

Can’t wait!

Your upcycled dress looks fab! Short sleeves are super-cute. Was interesting to see the obstacles you came up against and how you solved them too!

Love this project 💖🧵💖 thanks for taking part in #sewupcycle24 x

this is such a great upcycle Yvette!!!

I adore how the dress turned out and it was a genius idea for the drawstring casing. I was interested to see how you did that, as that’s one technique I’ve never used before. Thank you for joining in our challenge again this year. Fab video! ❤ xx

Absolutely brilliant upcycle, the dress looks fab 🤩

Great upcycle, looks fab. 😍

LOVE the way the dress turned out! I think the shorter sleeves look super cute. Only because you asked: I feel like a black tie or a tie made out of the fabric would look a bit more cohesive, but that's just me. If you love the pink, stick with it. 🤗

Awesome!!!❤

Great work ❤

Love all thee information and your lovely examples!

The little girls are going to look adorable with these dresses 👗…..❤

Ну замечательно! Умничка!!!😊

My fav is the plain blue dress w/ the flowered pockets & sleeves (9:36). My 2nd fav is the purple/lavender print with the solid purple pockets (13:00). 🥰 All are beautiful, so it was tough choosing.

It's hard to pick a favorite with so many pretty choices but I really like the one from the orange butterfly fabric.

I love the first dress the best. Orange butterflies ❤️❤️❤️

The fabrics are all very lovely. I think maybe I'll give this pattern a try nexts year.

I love that you can laugh at yourself-it was very cute! Lovely dresses.

Your dresses are all very cute. The girls who receive these will all feel quite special. I love how you combined fabrics. 😊

The silk is gorgeous! I like that you're making a TNT pattern. I've sewn with silk before and it was actually relatively easy: the cutting out was the trickiest for me, a single layer of fabric is best, plenty of weights and a rotary cutter are helpful. As for sewing, I use lots of silk pins to keep the seams aligned and then the fine needle as you mentioned, also a higher presser foot pressure, and sew slowly and try not to backstitch or get too close to the edges where the fabric can get sucked into the feed dogs. Good luck! It will be a beautiful blouse!

I loved the idea of the split dresses…so cute. Very imaginative when you run into a snag, you know make lemonade !

Lovely dresses.

A big thank you for the facebook link - I was unaware of it. Had a real moment of joy when I followed your link and saw a pic of a girl wearing one of the dresses I made last year. An unexpected reward that warmed my heart.

I finished dress number 16 last night. I tried to use the cotton in my stash, but did break down and buy some new stuff. I tried several different patterns, hoping to find one that I thought was perfect. 😍 Yours are got. Blue is my favorite color so those are myfavorites ❤🧵

I love how you put thought into each dress and made it unique and special. Kudos to you 💖👏

Beautiful colors. Honestly love them all. Purple & batik’s are very beautiful ❤❤😊

All of them are beautiful. I’ll go with #16. The blue with a gathered skirt.

Beautiful dresses and craftsmanship 👏 I love the last blue dress. Love the print.

Wow, Ivette, your dresses are beautiful and unique in every way 🤩 🤩 🤩. Isn’t it nice to see your dresses from last year went to Uganda, where is really needed? The peasant dress is a great and easy pattern to sew 👍. Thank you for the shout out 🙌🏻🙌🏻💖💖.

You’re dresses are beautiful! I really love that you reflected on how using your gift of sewing helps the girls. You’re so amazing.

Hmmm. The blue check is not for me. Looking forward to what to make with it

Such lovely dresses! It’s my first time taking part, my goal is 30 and I have done 20 complete. Only 10 to go 😝. My dresses are also mostly the same pattern as yours, but I’m looking for the last 10 at the tiered version. Will be 9/10 and 11/12 dresses. I will post mine ones soon to Jacqui too. Thank you for sharing your experience. 😊

I agree with all your thoughts. I’ve made loads of dresses, all styles, mostly bigger sizes up to age 10, from spring until now, not just September! I like your plain purple one, but they’re all great.

Nice dresses. Such variety.

I think you are right about how we pour our love into the things we make. It does make them extra special. I have been participating in PDAG for a few years now. It is actually a very fun challenge! I want to try that dress pattern next year. Happy sewing and thanks for the video!

What a lovely selection of fabrics and colours! I think my fave is the cobalt blue/ flower batik, that batik fabric is sooo pretty 😍 the wee girls are going to feel very special in them

I love the orange butterfly one! Well done for making so many ☺️

The fabric I bought online turned out to be a little sheer. I found some cheap fabric bolts on FB marketplace for sale that I'm going to pick up and hopefully they're not as sheer.

This was such an enjoyable video, Yvette. I was especially touched by your thoughts on your reasons for sewing and sewing for this charity. “Cute” dresses! 😂

That fabric is absolutely stunning! I understand your nervousness about putting in buttonholes, but as long as you've interfaced the button band, you'll be set. Can't wait to see the finished garment!

Looking forward to seeing your silk sewn up Yvette!

Love your fabric and❤ good luck

That silk is stunning Yvette, can't wait to see it made up & great idea using a pattern that you know you love, fits well & you are comfortable sewing 👍

ooh, that fabric is going to make a beautiful Gilbert top. Look forward to seeing it!

The silk material is beautfiul. Good luck working with the silk. I've never worked with silk so I'm no help. I'm sure you'll do great.

Man that fabric is amazing…. Can’t wait to see it made up! ❤

Stunning fabric, its going to look amazing. Have you read the book big dress energy, really interesting on the psychology of clothing, really interesting

Your fabrics are beautiful

So pretty