Toddler Pillowcase Dress

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Toddler pillowcase dress.

Toddler pillowcase dress pattern. How to make a pillowcase dress. I ve always wanted to try my hand at making a pillowcase dress. You will also need about a yard of coordinating ribbon.

Pillowcase dresses are popular because they are so simple to make the measurements aren t super important and they can grow with baby from a dress into a top. Check out our toddler pillowcase dresses selection for the very best in unique or custom handmade pieces from our dresses shops. You will then use your scissors to trim the seam allowance down to a scant 1 8. At about 3 to 4 inches from the bottom of the dress this pattern includes a strip rick rack or you can use a strip of ribbon instead.

For years i ve seen them around made by other crafters and sewers. A few years ago i stumbled across the easiest tutorial i ve ever seen for these popular dresses and since i can t find the source again if anyone knows who it belongs to please let me know i m making my own tutorial. Figure 1 the following measurements can also be used. This past weekend my sweet baby niece turned one and i wanted to give her something extra special to celebrate the occasion by making her a diy pillowcase dress.

Pillowcase dresses were originally designed to be kind of a one size fits all type dress for little girls. To do this sew the dress front and back pieces together wrong sides facing. Directions how to make a pillowcase dress measure your child from the shoulder to where you want the hem to rest and then add approx 7 8in to the total. And there are no complicated techniques if you can sew a.

Favorite add to simplicity 2383. Anchor pillowcase dress childrens anchor pillowcase dress toddler pillowcase dress children and toddler dress miss thangs dress missthangs. To make this dress you will need about a yard of fabric or less for a smaller dress and about 1 4 yard of a coordinating fabric. This pillowcase dress is quite similar to the others in the post with a little decorative twist at the bottom.

You want to cut as close to the seam as you can without actually cutting the seam. And it was super easy to make even making it up as i went along. The dress will grow with the girl eventually becoming more of a top than a dress. Sew the dress front and back pieces together using a french seam.

There s something about warm weather that brings out the pillowcase dresses in droves.