Yay!! Finally a sewing tutorial.
I actually made this dress a few months ago, but I have been waiting a long time to post it. This dress is so easy to make anyone can do it. I'm not the best seamstress, but I can make a few things. I tend to make things more complicated than what they are. I also have to stick to something I can make during naptime. I got this tutorial from Little Red Roost. It's actually an adult dress, but I decided to make a mini version for Princess Abelle. This dress is so much fun to make you will definitely make more. I have made 3 already!! Enough of the blabbing let's get started.
What you will need:
old t-shirt
1/2 yard of fabric (I used a pillowcase I purchased from the thrift store)
thread
sewing machine
pinking shears
elastic
iron and ironing board
For the skirt portion of the dress, you will need a piece of fabric wide enough to go around and as long as you’d like. Cut your material and sew up the side to form a large rectangle open on the top and bottom.
Next you iron a casing for your elastic. iron the top 1/4 in, next fold it down about 1/2in-1in depending on the width of the elastic you are using. Make sure you make the casing larger than the elastic since you will be sewing 1/4 in from the stop to attach to shirt.
Next sew your casing.
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| I don't sew the straighest ^_^ |
Once you have sewn your casing cut a small slit, so you can feed your elastic through.
I use a safety pin attached to one end of my elastic to feed it through my casing. Once you feed it through sew the ends of elastic together.
Now you end up with a skirt!! Your next step is to figure out the placement where you want to attach the skirt to the shirt. Trim the excess fabric from the shirt. Make sure you leave a little for seam allowance. Does that make sense? I wanted this dress to be a little more of an empire waist than her others that I made her. Pin the dress to the shirt and sew right above you top stitch for the casing. This was the part that I had trouble with, but as I said before I make everything harder than it seems.
Once you are finished all you need to do is sew the hem on the bottom of the skirt and your little princess will be ready to wear it to the park with big brother!!
Here are the other two dresses I made using the same tutorial.
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| made from her old shirt and clearance fabric |
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| made from my old shirt and skirt! |
Thanks for checking this out I hope that this tutorial has been helpful, and I would like to thank Little Red Roost for posting the original tutorial.
