#handmadebyme

The family legacy started a couple of years ago with the dark red dress (like dried blood almost but not as brown).

It's linen with a golden glitter thread woven into it. You can cinch in the shoulder part for a sleeveless fit or leave o

It unruffled for a semblance of sleeves.

Imade it to attend a dear friend's graduation ceremony from film school. It's an overdress, with a corresponding underdress to go with it. You have to wear something underneath as it just has a slit going down the entire skirt front. I often wear a coordinating skirt with it instead of the underdress nowadays, so I can change it up.

2018 I used version B of the bodice to make myself a birthday dress. This version doesn't have the shoulder straps for gathering. The bodice has a beautiful sakura print and I made layered circle skirts for the bottom part (which are also longer in the back). I got the fabric for the skirts from a relative.

Last year I made another dress using version A (like the original dark red dress) from a beautifully machine embroidered white linen. It's thicker than the dark red linen, so that contributes to a slightly different look. I added a permanent underskirt panel in a golden sand colour. The waistband is also made from the golden sand coloured linen.

This year I created the green patchwork dress using version B. The skirt of that dress is printed fabric that only looks like patchwork and I did actual patchwork on the bodice from the fabric scraps, as I've retroactively decided to not only do a (fake) patchwork skirt but an actual patchwork dress ! The skirt part has side gadots for a bit of added interest and lace, because obviously. I also changed up the waistband of the green dress and used another method to create it, just to see the difference.

The purple & pink dress was also made in 2021, from pink linen (with golden glitter thread) and purple linen (with silver glitter thread) and a purple cotton for the underskirt. That's the same kind of linen I've used for the original red dress. This dress also started out life as a skirt (a pointy circle skirt) but I upgraded it this year into a dress. Why not change up your clothes by transforming them into something else?