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Greetings to you all out there on this beautiful day, I hope you all are doing well, it's been awhile and I'm sure I have missed a lot on this blog but trust me, I'm back to share with you most of my creativity just the way you will love and also been appreciating my work, I like to share details of my sewing incase someone might want to make something as such, I hope you will love the outcome of each of my simple and stylish creativity.

Today, I will be sharing with you the cutting and sewing process of a simple gown with 360° high and low sleeves with V-neck patch Infront using Ankara and plain satin fabric.

These days, I really prefer to make something simple as it cost less and takes few minutes or hours to complete unlike some outfit that takes days to achieve, though the two can't be compared when it comes to the final outcome but sewing with all these inferior type of Ankara fabric, I will prefer not to spend more on them as the fabric tends to fade away and wash off after awhile, this is same advice I will give to my close friends and family except when they insist then I have no choice than to make what they actually requested for.

This fabric was gifted to my friend by her mum, from the fabric she bought to make a simple gown as well, the remaining fabric was given to my friend and as my advice, she decided not to spend much in making the outfit, I came up with this style as suggested to her and she agreed asking if it will look good on her and I told her not to worry that the outcome will be so nice.

Starting with the cutting process, I folded the 3yards of Ankara fabric into 2 using the hip measurement plus 2" for ease and seam allowance the I marked out the front neckline of 6" with a V like shape and the back neckline of 1.5" on the same folded fabric, the main is to cut out the back neckline first before cutting out the front since the front and back bodice measurement will be the same, I went ahead to mark out the shoulder and armhole circumference, while the bust, waist and hip measurement were divided by 4 with ½" ease and 1½" of seam allowance for the side seam to join the front and back together.

The front and back were cut out with the difference necklines, I pick the front and cut out my satin material to trace the V-neck Infront and sew it on the V-neckline

The back was neatly sewn and iron, then the back neckline was sewn with the facing I cut out from the Ankara fabric. The front and back were sewn together and set aside.

I proceeded to the cutting of the sleeves by cutting out a 360° flare using the armhole circumference divide by 6.28 plus the desired length of the sleeves.

The sleeves were sewn to the armhole circumference and I have this beautiful short gown.

After sewing the gown, my friend requested that I add pocket to the sides of the gown which I did by cutting out the shape of a pocket from the left over fabric and it was sewn to the gown.

This is the beautiful outcome of the short gown I made for my friend with 3yards of Ankara fabric and just little piece of satin material.

I hope you like the simplicity and beautiful outcome of this gown. Until my next post, stay safe.