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    Little Girl’s Knit Tube Dress

    Free Pattern

    2 Jun

    Here is a super simple 10 minute dress you can whip up for your little girl with scraps from your stash. This tube dress uses stretchy bubble knit on the top and regular jersey knit on the bottom. I used bubble knit because that’s what I had but any type of stretch knit can be used. Also instead of knit on the bottom, regular cotton can be used. Its a simple versatile dress that allows you to mix and match from your fabric stash. You can make the length shorter for tunic or top style or long for a flare style. Either way, it finishes up in just 10 minutes using 3 simple steps! I decided to add ribbons as my straps but it can be worn without as a true tube dress or top. My little girl loves hers and we will be making a few more of these this summer.

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    I get all my knits from Girl Charlee Fabric Shop. They have a wide variety to chose from. You can also make this from bits and pieces of knits you have at home from an old t-shirt or shirt that you no longer use. Anything that stretches will work well for the top.

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    I decided to make Mila’s dress long because she likes to twirl but you can make yours shorter as a top.

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    Your Supplies

    Top Tube- 7″ x 18″ knit (Toddle 3T girls)

    Bottom- 1/4 yard knit or cotton

    20″ ribbon. Cut in 4 5″ strips.

    Measurements

    Top-Measure around your model’s chest and subtract 3″. To get the width, measure from under the arm to just about 2″ above the belly button. Mila’s top ended up being about 7″ x15″.

    Bottom- Measure around your model’s waist. Take that number and multiply it by 1.5. To get the length, measure however long you want the dress to be from the belly button area and add 1″ for seam allowance.

    Let’s start

    Make the top tube by sewing the two short ends right sides together.

     

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    Next, take your bottom piece, sew a long stitch 1″ from the top and pull to form a gather.

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    Fit your top into the bottom piece, right sides together aligning the back of the gathered piece to the back of your top piece.

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    Sew using 1″ allowance all the way around.

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    To add your straps, take one of your ribbon piece and fold in the ends. Sew it about 2″ from the side of your tube piece. Do this for all 4 pieces.

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    If you want to hem the bottom, go ahead and do that now. If not, you are done!

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    Thanks for visiting and Happy sewing,

     

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    anneweaver1974 23p · 570 weeks ago

    Cute!! I've got a Craft Gossip post scheduled for this evening that links to your tutorial :http://sewing.craftgossip.com/tutorial-easy-knit-sundress-for-a-little-girl/2014/06/03/
    --Anne
    My recent post Tutorial: Felt donut pillow – with sprinkles!
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    Peg · 570 weeks ago

    Adorable! very cute but also elegant. Wonderful job
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    carriefisher07 19p · 570 weeks ago

    Such a cutie, who knows she might be the next top model in the future. I love the dress I'm definitely making one for my niece who will turn two next month.
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    E Juice · 570 weeks ago

    Nice post. I learn something totally new and challenging on blogs I stumbleupon everyday.

    It will always be useful to read articles from other writers and practice a little something from other web sites.
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    cᴜstom papers · 510 weeks ago

    Importance of education should be asked by uneducated people because they are deprived from this golden opportunity. All famous and respectable figures of society are prominent because of education. Education give us identity and rights to live in society.
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    assignment writing · 493 weeks ago

    The child dress is pretty and the young lady is looking so adorable in that dress. I have requested a comparable one for my little girl from an online store.
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    sidharth0427 1p · 166 weeks ago

    Nice post. I really liked the black dots of girl dress. To watch
    please check this .
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