What a blessing to have a little daughter! With her appearance, a lot of ideas with outfits and hairstyles arise. Moms tirelessly dress up their doll in beautiful puffy dresses. Dressing a child in beautiful outfits is not such a cheap hobby. Buying once again a magnificent ball gown for a matinee, many mothers have a question: can I sew something like this on my own? Sometimes a simple children's dress is equal in price to a thing for an adult, to say nothing of festive exclusive outfits for a child.
Plain Party Dress
If you show imagination and allocate some free time, you can sew a stunning dress for a 3-year-old girl on your own. The pattern is quite simple, it is the base for many models. Do not be afraid to sew such things. The main thing is to start, with this model everything will definitely work out! Daughter will be proud of her new dress, it will be the most beloved,because mom made it!
First you need to arm yourself with a centimeter tape and start creating dress patterns for girls 3-4 years old. When sewing things, children of this age do not need tucks on the bodice and waist, and other cut difficulties. In addition, you can show imagination and skill by adding numerous ruffles, multi-layer puffy skirts to the model, decorating with bows, rhinestones to your heart's content, without fear of overdoing it. Girls in such outfits look amazing, and the more jewelry on the dress, the more they feel like princesses.
Building a pattern
To sew a festive dress for a girl of 3 years old, the pattern should consist of a top that will serve as a coquette and a bottom as a skirt. The skirt can be sewn with side seams or made in one piece by stitching only at the back. Also in the construction of the pattern, you can adjust the length, height of the waist line, the presence of sleeves, the type of skirt and much more. But the base of the pattern is the same for everyone - a bodice in the form of a T-shirt.
It is necessary first to take measurements from the child to build the base grid. Width pieces (such as back and front) should be equal to half the waist circumference, for this the full size is divided by two to get a half circumference. Moreover, the back consists of two shelves for sewing in a zipper.
- Waist /2=Sweat;
- bust/2=POG;
- back length to waist or high waistline=DST;
- skirt length from waist to hem=DUNE;
- product length=CI;
- sleeve length, you canwithout it=DR.
Hip circumference is not required, the dress will be puffy, so it will not play any role in building the base. The pattern can be created on the back of the roll wallpaper or on a thick oilcloth. As an example, you can also use a ready-made dress for a girl of 3 years old and make a pattern according to it, taking into account the new sizes. To do this, put the transparent film alternately on the parts folded in half and repeat the contours along the seam lines with a pen on the oilcloth. After building and cutting out, the pattern of an elegant dress for a girl of 3 years old can be transferred to the fabric.
You need to cut out with a seam allowance of about a centimeter. Do not confuse the face with the inside, mark the pattern on the back of the material. If the fabric slips, you can use pins. After checking once again the correspondence of the parts, you can start grinding them.
Sewing procedure
Parts are sewn on a sewing machine, it is possible on the simplest, straight stitch. Edge processing is usually done with an overlock, but if this is not available, you can get by with a zigzag stitch, or after a straight re-stitching of the product, overcast the cuts by hand. After all, the patterns of dresses for girls (2-3 years old) are small, and it will not take a lot of time and effort to manually process the seams. Sequence of work:
- Side and shoulder seams.
- Side slits on the skirt.
- Sew sleeve sections.
- Sew on sleeves.
- Connect the yoke with the skirt.
- Stitch the zipper between the halves of the back.
- Processingneckline.
- Bottom processing.
It remains to cut the rest of the threads, iron - and the dress is ready! Now you can implement ideas in terms of decorative additions. Separately sew a belt and tie in a bow at the back.
Petticoat
For splendor, you can sew a separate petticoat and wear it with the dress. In the bottom seam and in the middle of the petticoat, you can insert volume-giving, horizontal rings, they are in specialized stores. Or sew a puffy tulle skirt under the bottom, but you won’t be able to achieve such a volume as with rings. Layered petticoats for a child are not recommended: the space filled with a lot of fabric will hamper the movement of the legs.
Sun Skirt
In a dress for a girl of 3 years old, the pattern of the lower part can be anything: the sun, the half-sun, a rectangular piece of fabric gathered from above can also be used. Of course, the sun looks more magnificent, besides, it will be great to spin in such a dress!
In order for the sun dress to have smooth edges along the bottom, you need to follow some rules when cutting. To build a pattern, you need: POT and length from the waist to the desired mark. A perpendicular is drawn from the middle of the horizontal line down. Half waist divided by four, this is the length from the center point to the beginning of the pattern. From it, measure the length of the skirt and mark the point. Draw a markup from the center to the bottom, using the bisector between the two lines formedcorners (shown in the photo). Connect the lower points to form a semicircle, do the same with the waistline.
Patterns will still come in handy
Templates should not be thrown away, they may come in handy more than once. For example, with the onset of the New Year holidays in kindergartens, the time for matinees begins. The basic pattern of a New Year's dress for a girl of 3 years old can remain the same, you just need to add details that match the image. Make a Christmas tree dress from green fabric, sheathe it with ruffles, flounces and decorate with small New Year's balls and rain. Daughter will be irresistible! From white fabric, you can sew a Snowflake or Snow Queen dress, put on a voluminous tulle petticoat under a short sun dress, sew on snowflakes and sequins, plus a crown! Why not a queen?
Conclusion
So, what do you need to sew a dress for a 3 year old girl? Pattern, fabric, sewing machine and mother's skillful hands. Because only mom knows how it should be: pink or blue, with a bow, a flower or with cats. After all, the dress can be decorated as your heart desires, you just have to start. And as you gain experience with simple things, perhaps for your prom after graduation, you will be able to sew a more elaborate dress for your adult princess!
