Basically,
I’m making a dress very similar to the one I’m wearing right now,
but for my six year old daughter.
For her dress, I decided to do the tea sleeve
just because it requires a lot less fabric.
I did thrift this fabric. Here’s the dress right here.
Let’s talk about how I did it.
I know I was gonna have to shrink the pattern.
I started with the smallest size that the pattern comes with,
which is an extra extra small.
The page that has the neckline and the armholes,
and used that to compare it to dresses I had made her in the past.
After printing this page at a couple different percentages,
printing it at 90% seemed like it was going to be the best fit.
So I ended up printing the entire pattern at 90%.
So essentially I took the extra extra small,
decreased it by 10%. Haha. Math.
Here are the pieces right here.
It’s just basically the same pattern for this dress,
but smaller. I’ve made my daughter a lot of clothes in the past,
so I was able to look at this and be like,
that’ll fit. Here are the pattern pieces for the little facings.
The seam allowance, I didn’t make any adjustments to it.
The seam allowance was 1 cm,
and I didn’t feel like the
1 millimeter was going to make that big of a difference,
but yeah, that’s what it’s looking like.
I haven’t even tried it on.
Her yet, so I’m not exactly sure how it’s going to fit.
If this works out,
I’m super excited about it because I’ll be able to just make her
and I like matching clothes.
Matching outfits using patterns that I already have.
Here is the back. I did include one of my little labels.
I was lucky enough to find two of the same sheets at the thrift store
recently,
and I think it would be really cute to do the same exact dress.
Um, that way we could do a side by side comparison.
I’ll have to jump back on here once the dress is finished
and just give you guys a little update.