sew: ruffle front circle skirt dress

A few weeks ago I constitute a couple of mens long sleeved t-shirts on clearance at Walmart for $1 each. I used 1 to brand a top for myself and I've been wondering what to do with the other 1. When I saw that Projection Run and Play was having a circle brim remix sewalong this week, I knew what to practise with my blueish shirt. I decided to mix a circumvolve brim with my women's top to baby apparel refashion, adding in a cute ruffle down the front.

This clothes was adequately quick, is completely ambrosial, and the soft knit fabric is perfectly comfortable on her baby skin. And it only takes about five minutes to brand a matching ruffled headband. Want the full tutorial? Read on!

So, like I mentioned, I started with this:

I chopped off both the sleeves, then cut the forepart and dorsum pieces apart. I began by drawing the circle that would become the summit of the circle skirt. I measured loosely around my girl'south hips and constitute I needed a circle with a 22 inch circumference. I establish a bowl that had roughly the same measurement and traced it in the heart of the back piece of the shirt. (Since I was working with knit I wasn't besides worried near getting the measurements exact – I knew I could use the stretch in the fabric to make the skirt fit even if it was a little too big – but if I had been using woven textile I would have been much more exact in my measurements.)

I traced the basin to get the inner circle, so folded the shirt back in fourths so I could cutting the circle out easily and evenly. I then trace another quarter circle 6.5 inches abroad from the first one, to make a brim half-dozen and a one-half inches long (again, since I was using knit which doesn't fray I didn't worry well-nigh adding a hem allowance).

And here'southward the circumvolve skirt all unfolded:

I used a dress I made a few weeks ago every bit a blueprint to cutting the bodice pieces from the front piece of the original shirt.

I too cut two waistband pieces about 2-3 inches tall and the same width as the bottom edge of the bodice. Make certain when cutting both the bodice and the waistband that your stretch is going side to side. Here's the bodice, waistband pieces, and skirt fix to get put together:

Lastly, I cut 1 more than strip of fabric, this ane a little scrap more than twice as alpine as the bodice, to use as a ruffle.

I sewed two rows of gathering stitches downward the center of the ruffle strip (sewing 2 rows of gathering stitches makes for much more even gathers than just i), and gathered it up until it was nearly the same height as the bodice. To sew a gathering sew together, set your sew length to the longest possible setting, and then turn your tension down very low. After sewing both rows of stitching you can pull on the bottom threads to gather the fabric.

Then I pinned the ruffle downwardly the front end bodice and sewed it on with ii rows of straight stitching, sewing right over my rows of gathering stitches. Whenever I run up on knit fabric I set up my sew length to the longest possible setting and keep my tension fairly loftier – this helps prevent stretching of the fabric as you lot sew.

I also added a slit in the back with a tiny loop of elastic to make a back push closure.

Adjacent I pinned one waistband strip to the bottom border of the front end bodice, RST, and sewed straight across.

I did the same with the 2nd waistband strip and the back bodice piece. (Note: if this is going to be at all snug, meaning it will demand to stretch, you should attach the waistband pieces using a narrow zig zag instead of a straight stitch.)

At this bespeak I used the same method I used in my earlier shirt to apparel refashion to bind the neckline and the armholes, and then sewed the side seams together and turned it all right side out.

I slipped the skirt around the completed bodice (the bodice is correct side out and the brim is inside out, making the right sides of both pieces face ane another), and pinned it to the bodice in eight places. My skirt was a piddling larger around than the bodice, but that wasn't a problem. I just stretched the bodice as I sewed the two pieces together.

And here's how it turned out:

I decided I liked the ruffles so much I needed to make a quick ruffled headband to go with. I simply cutting two strips of fabric and laid them on top of a piece of 1/2 inch elastic. As I sewed the strips on I pulled the elastic as long as I could. When I finished sewing the elastic shortened back up, causing the strips of cloth to ruffle on top of it. I used a quick zig zag stitch to sew the ends of the rubberband together.

And then I picked the but tulip that has grown in our front yard then my girl could hold it and be distracted long plenty to forget most ripping the headband off her head.

Apparently the tulip looked good enough to eat.

I recollect she does as well!

And the back:

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