DealDash Sews: A Pillowcase Dress

Making a pillowcase dress is easy, simple, and fun. You can use it as a dress for a little girl, or a blouse for a lady.

I love to sew, and the pillowcase dress is one of the easiest projects that you can do. You can complete the pillowcase dress in less than an hour! It’s a low-cost, high reward project. My daughter has so many of these dresses. If you have a little girl or a granddaughter this project is perfect, you can even do it together.

Materials:

• Pillowcase
• Ribbon

Directions:

1. Buy a pretty pillowcase or find one around your house.
2. Figure out how much of the material you will need – I’ll attach a sizing guide for little girls at the bottom of these directions.
3. Lay out your pillowcase, measure the length you need, and cut straight across the closed end, so you end up with a tube of fabric.
4. Cut semi-circular openings out for the arms on the side of the tube that you just cut open. (see picture for guide:
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6. Using your zig-zag stitch on the sewing machine, stitch around the arm openings that you just cut so they don’t start to unravel in the wash. Alternately, if you have a serger you can use that to serge around the arm openings.
7. Hem and sew a tube for the ribbon on the front and the back of the pillowcase dress. Please see the picture below for reference:
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9. Guide a long length of ribbon through both casings and tie. You can use a large safety pin to guide the ribbons through the tubes. You could also use a chopstick to push the ribbon through, instead.
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Here is the sizing guide, if you would like to make it into more of a pillowcase tank top then use a shorter length, or if you would like a longer dress you can layer another piece of fabric underneath to make the dress longer. This is a great project because you don’t have to follow many measurements or instructions, make it your own!

6 – 12 mos: width – 15″, length – 18-19″, finished length – 14-15″

18 – 24 mos: width – 18″, length – 20-22″, finished length – 16-18″

Size 2 – 8: width – 22″, length – 24-31″, finished length – 20-27″

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