What a blessing to have a little daughter! With her appearance, there are many ideas with outfits and hairstyles. Moms tirelessly dress up their doll in beautiful magnificent dresses. Dressing your child in beautiful outfits is not such a cheap hobby. Buying a magnificent ball gown once again for the matinee , many mothers have a question: can I sew something like this on my own? Sometimes a simple children's dress at the price equals things for an adult, to say nothing about exclusive holiday dresses for a child.
Festive dress with a simple cut
If you show imagination and set aside some free time, you can sew a stunning dress for a girl of 3 years old on her own. The pattern is quite simple, it is basic for many models. Do not be afraid to sew such things. The main thing is to start, with this model everything will work out for sure! The daughter will be proud of her new dress, it will be the most beloved, because his mother sewed it!
First you need to arm yourself with a centimeter tape and begin to create a pattern of dresses for girls 3-4 years old. When sewing things to children of this age, they 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, multilayer fluffy skirts to the model, decorating with bows, rhinestones as much as you like, without fear of going too far. Girls in such outfits look amazing, and the more jewelry on the dress, the more they feel like princesses.
Building patterns
To sew a festive dress for a girl of 3 years old, the pattern should consist of a top, which will serve as a yoke, and a bottom as a skirt. The skirt can be sewn with side seams or to make an integral part, having sewn only at the back. Also in the construction of the pattern, you can adjust the length, height of the waistline, 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 shape of a T-shirt.
First you need to take measurements from the child to build a basic grid. Details in width (such as the back and front) should be equal to half the circumference of the waist, for this the full size is divided into two to get a semi-circumference. Moreover, the back consists of two shelves for stitching zippers.
- Waist / 2 = POT;
- chest circumference / 2 = POG;
- the length of the back to the waist or to the high waistline = DST;
- skirt length from waist to bottom = DUN;
- product length = DI;
- sleeve length, you can without it = DR.
Hip girth is not required, the dress will be magnificent, so it will not play any role in building the foundation. A pattern can be created on the back of a roll of wallpaper or on a dense oilcloth. As an example, you can also use a ready-made dress for a girl of 3 years old and make a pattern on it, given 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, 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 an allowance for seams about a centimeter. Do not confuse the face with the wrong side; mark the patterns on the back of the material. If the fabric slips, you can use the pins. Having checked once again the correspondence of the parts, one can proceed to their grinding.
The procedure for sewing operations
Parts are sewn together on a sewing machine, and it is possible on the simplest, straight-line. Edging is usually done with an overlock, but if this is not available, you can get by with a zigzag line, or after a direct re-stitching of the product, cut the slices manually. After all, the patterns of dresses for girls (2-3 years) are small, and a lot of effort and time will not be spent on manual processing of seams. Work sequence:
- Side and shoulder seams.
- Side cuts on the skirt.
- Sew sections of the sleeves.
- Sew on sleeves.
- Connect the yoke to the skirt.
- Stitch the zipper between the back halves.
- Neck processing.
- Bottom processing.
It remains to trim the remaining threads, iron - and the dress is ready! Now you can implement ideas regarding decorative additions. Separately sew a girdle and tie back on the bow.
Petticoat
For splendor, you can sew the lower skirt separately and put it on with the dress. In the lower seam and in the middle of the petticoat, you can insert volumetric horizontal rings, they are in specialized stores. Or sew a full skirt of tulle under the bottom , but such a volume as with rings cannot be achieved. Multilayer petticoats are not recommended for the child: the space filled with plenty of fabric will hamper the movement of the legs.
Skirt sun
In a dress for a girl of 3 years, the pattern of the lower part can be anything: the sun, a half-sun, a rectangular piece of fabric gathered from above can also be applied. Of course, the sun looks more magnificent, moreover, in such a dress it will be great to spin!
In order for the sun dress to have even edges on the bottom, you need to adhere to certain rules when cutting. To build a pattern you need: POT and the length from the waist to the desired mark. A perpendicular is drawn from the middle of the horizontal line down. Divide the waist by four, this is the length from the center point to the beginning of the pattern. From her measure the length of the skirt and mark the point. Mark from the center to the bottom, using a bisector between the two formed right angles (shown in the photo). Connect the lower points to form a semicircle, do the same with the waistline.
Patterns still come in handy
Patterns should not be thrown away, they can come in handy more than once. For example, with the onset of the New Year holidays in kindergartens, the time for matinees begins. The main pattern of a New Year's dress for a 3-year-old girl can remain the same, you just need to add details that correspond to the image. Dress Christmas trees from green fabric, sheathed with ruffles, frills and decorate with small New Year's balls and rain. The daughter will be irresistible! You can sew a Snowflake or Snow Queen dress from white fabric, put on a voluminous tulle petticoat under a short sun dress, sew snowflakes and sequins, plus a crown! What is not a queen?
Conclusion
So, what does it take to sew a dress for a girl of 3 years old? Pattern, fabric, sewing machine and mother's skillful hands. Because only mom knows what it should be: pink or blue, with a bow, flower or cats. After all, the dress can be decorated as your heart desires, you just have to start. And with gaining experience on simple things, perhaps on graduation evening after graduating from school, you will be able to sew an already more complicated dress for your adult princess!