A splendid new week to you all friends on Hive, who else views a new week as a refreshing start? With hope for endless opportunities ahead, as it gives us the chance to reboot and face our goals with renewed energy. If we had a challenging previous week, we can leave the down feeling behind and forge ahead with renewed determination.

That is how I view every Monday and gladly I have this amazing community to kick start the week and keep hope alive.

I've got another interesting sewing project to share with you today, a beautiful bubu dress made with a combination of two traditional fabrics that combines perfectly to give this stunning look, it's a dress I made for my mum, I realized that it's been a long while I made a matching outfit for us both so on my last visit to the market to restock my sewing supplies I took a liking to this Kampala fabric, it had a vibrant purple colour with beautiful patterns which attracted me to buy it on impulse, also as I already had the thought of making a matching outfit for me and my mum it presented an opportunity.

I also got a plain Matching Aso-oke fabric which I used in styling the neckline of the dress, as you can see, Aso-oke combines richly with Kampala to give an elegant look.

Without further ado, let's get right into the making process, it took me about 3 hours to make this dress from start to finish as it is very easy to make.

Cutting And Sewing Process

• First, I drafted and cut out the kimono bubu gown pattern directly on the fabric, measuring out her bust, waist, and hip measurements, I also added ease allowance since it's a free dress.

The front has a V- neckline If about 12 inches deep so it can easily be worn without a deeper at the back, while the back neckline is about one-inch depth and rounded

• The next process was to join the front and back bodice by the shoulder area

• Continuing, I cut out a strip of the Aso-oke fabric in a fold of 2 inches, while the length was determined by measuring around the neckline, from one end to the other.

• Then I sewed it around the neckline

• I also cut out a trapezium shape with the Aso-oke fabric and stitched it on the center of the Bubu dress ad also add fringes to its hem.

• The aso-oke fabric was also used to hem the sleeves

Finally, I cut out pockets which I joined to both sides of the dress while joining the side seam allowance and hemmed the base of the dress,

The result is stunning! My mum was happy to receive a new matching fabric dress as me, she danced happily after fitting her dress, a typical African mum's way, who says twinning with your mum has to stop when you grow older, not me lol

All images used in this post are mine

Thank you for reading.❤❤

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