Hello Hive

A pleasant afternoon to us all.
I hope that our day is coming on well. For us here we had our work at the farm today completed much earlier since there was not much to do today. Having returned home I decided to engage the rest of the day in sewing. Our uniform for Sunday service is a smart dress of
any fabric with a touch of white.

I decided to prepare the outfit from today since Sunday often caught me unprepared. Our church choir rehearsal often held every Monday and this is when the uniform to be worn on the coming Sunday us selected. This much time is often giving so that everyone can prepare their outfit of the matching color called for everyone and just in case they do not have the colour and are financially capable of sewing such wear, they can go ahead and do it before Sunday.

Lucky for me I had a dress in my work in progress outfit bag. You need to see the amount of unfinished wears I have.

I had accumulated so much pile of unfinished clothes because I started sewing all these wears when I was stull an apprentice, I didn't have the skills then to complete certain outfits the way I desired and once I make an outfit halfway and didn't know how to complete it, I just go ahead and dump such clothes.

For this particular dress it had so many challenges, the darts weren't properly alighned.

I took out the dress and reaped it open to adjust the darts. The inner linings were already weak and tearing, I had to replace that too

Before moving unto the slits, normally we aren't meant to wear dresses with front slits especially ones that the slits are really high enough to reveal our thigh and sensitive parts. But since this dress already had a slight, I had to creatively device a means to close the dart.

It took about some good time of thinking before I arrived at using this tulle bet.

At first I was thing a big bow will fit in there but I didn't have the blue fabric to sew a bow with it.

I searched for a matching tulle net from what I have at home

I cut this into a length of what will be enough to cover cover the slights

I then stiched the edges together and then moved on to pleats it on lower part the dress where the slit is

Another thing I did was to to stitched in some bias in the skirt dartlines, just for embellishments.

For the skirt I used a blue color and for the dress I used a contrasting white color just to highlight such areas and make them appear appealing
Here is what the lower slits looked like and the outcome of the dress.