A Single Mom's Blog

     I just made another simple dress for my baby gaga. Just like the first one I posted here, it was made from scraps. I had to cut my long pants into short so I thought of making my baby a dress out of  its scrap.
     My mother is a dressmaker in profession but I am not. But since I was a child I have seen and followed her simple procedures of making dresses. Did some for my own and my children.

If you are going to make one, follow these tips and procedure:

1. You're first dress should be an easy simple one.
2. You may mess up on your first tries but as you are learning you'll get better.
3. Find the right pattern. (I don't do pattern. My clothes or my baby's clothes are my pattern.)
4. Gather your supplies, a needle, scissor, thread, fabric, measuring tape, etc.
5. Take a fabric and scissor. Fold the fabric in half. Make sure that sides are even.
6. NECK HOLE. At the top, cut a half circle slightly larger than your baby's head.
7. Sew the sides together. You can use a sewing machine or you can just manually stitch the sides together using a thread and a needle. Be careful.
8. Make sure to start below and where the separated ends are. Do not sew all the way up. Leave a space for the arms/sleeves.
9. Fold and sew all the open sides from the neck hole, arms and lower part of the dress.
10. And you're done. So easy, isn't it? 

* You can also decorate the dress with patches, beads, etc.