Sewing pinny dress

Pinny dress for a child should be one of the easiest sewing project.

Professionals makes them ready in no time.

Well, I am not a professional

- not even a great sewer.

But I had decided to sew (few!) dresses to Little Princess,

and I though,

that during the flu would be great time for start.

Just because it isn't physically heavy...

I started with drawing pattern.

I used my eldest daughter's old dress as a model.

Front piece

Just draw the lines on the paper.

I used greaseproof paper,

it is enough wide for this kind of little clothing.

back pieces

As usual, 

I started this project without checking,

if I have all supplies needed.

Of course I didn't.

As I now have sewing machine with only straight and zigzag,

no stretch stitch,

I had to choose cotton fabric

- which I didn't have many pieces on hand.

So it took a while to find best place of pattern.

After finding paces I liked,

it was time to cut.

If my first mistake was not to check, if I am having all supplies,

this was the second.

I forgot to turn the fabric for other back side.

And had two of the same site pieces:

So I needed to cut one other.

Glad I had enough fabric to do that!

And then I had 1 piece for front and two for back:

 

Time to start sewing!

I started with shoulder seams.

I use to put needles perpendicular,

because they are easy to take away during sewing.

No, I don't baste, have no patience for that...

I also sew zigzag around every piece

- to make sure the fabric won't start raveling out so easy:

zigzag all over

Next I made seam on collar.

If I only had diagonal ribbon...

needling collar

Sewing collar didn't go so well,

so I decided to put some lace on the mistakes.

some lace?

It didn't set fine either,

so I needed to unravel it.

This was the thing my aunt told,

why she didn't like sewing:

unraveling is seamy work.

I decided to think that problem later,

and went on for hem.

I used old dress to check the length

and made this longer,

just because I remembered this dress was very short.

checking the length of hem

And add lace on it!

Then it was time for plackets:

And overlock stitches to cuffs:

Not so regular ones.

but does it really matter?

I made cross stitches onto collar to hide mistakes in sewing:

And finally sew poppers:

And it is done:

This simple pinny dress took six hours to get ready.

I really hope I am able to make next one a bit faster!

But it is cute, isn't it?