Do you want to make an elegant dress for a girl with your own hands? It can be sewn or knitted or crocheted. The article contains simple options that even a beginner can handle. Choose models, read comments. Make outfits for your little fashionista.
Benefits of DIY
Does your princess like to spin in front of a mirror? Does she like to wear beautiful and original things? Please your daughter with a gift of your own production. You can sew or knit an elegant dress for a girl with your own hands. Both options have the following advantages compared to buying a finished thing:
- made exactly to size;
- have an individual design (your daughter will not be in the same outfit with another girl);
- both of you like it, as the model was chosen together from the pictures and tried on during the creation process.
Methods for making dresses: which one to choose
If you compare the two manufacturing methods with each other, sewing an outfit has several advantages over knitting. They are as follows:
- takes less time;
- allows for a simple pattern to get a beautiful thing due to expensive and effective material;
- it can be assumed in advance how the product will look like on a girl by attaching fabric to a figure or even wrapping a child in material;
- allows you to create a spectacular festive outfit in the form of a ball or evening option.
If you want to make a light beautiful summer dress for a girl complete with a panama hat and a handbag, and also have a margin of patience to count loops and a pattern, feel free to choose a crochet method.
Tools and materials
When you have decided on the method of making things, start searching for a specific model and buy everything you need to create it. In the case of crocheting, you will need the tool itself, the yarn and the pattern. For sewing, you need much more:
- pattern;
- fabric for dress;
- material for the petticoat, for example tulle (required in a lush version);
- Regiline and corset tape for stiffening the seams and the bottom;
- pins
- tailor's chalk;
- scissors;
- needle with thread;
- sewing machine.
The list can be either large or smaller, because children's dresses for girls, elegant or casual, are sewn in different ways. Schemes and technologies are used as the simplest in the form of one-piece models, and very complex.
Decoration methods
You can sew an elegant dress for a girl with your own hands using the simplest pattern.
Beauty will be created by the material from which the thing is made, and decor. You can supplement the product with the following details:
- frills on a skirt or top;
- fabric flowers;
- lace;
- original belt;
- bows;
- beads and beads;
- satin ribbon decorations.
A set with a handbag and a rim or hair clip from the same fabric will look stylish and original.
How to sew an elegant dress for a girl with your own hands?
No matter what model you will make, the general scheme of work is as follows:
- Take measurements from the child.
- Take the finished pattern, adjust it if necessary, or build everything yourself. If you use ready-made templates, it will not be difficult for you to do this in any way.If you take the downloaded scheme, then it is enough to print it on the desired scale and cut out the details. With self-build, you can just look at the example image from the monitor screen.
- Lay out the cut parts on the fabric in accordance with the direction of the shared thread. It is usually indicated by an arrow. Do not forget that there are parts with a fold and those that are made in duplicate. It is convenient to cut them in one go, having previously folded the flap in half.
- Pin all the elements to the fabric and circle with chalk or sharpened remnant. Consider seam allowances. Cut out all the pieces.
- It is first necessary to sweep the product to try on and, if necessary, adjust the dimensions.
- Stitch items in sequence. Sew on decor when it is most convenient.
In each particular model, other specific steps may be present, for example, making a petticoat, securing a regilin or corset tape, making tucks, frills.
How to take measurements?
Children's dresses for girls are elegant, as well as casual, are sewn in accordance with the size of a particular child. This is the advantage of custom manufacturing. The main thing is to correctly determine all the values by which you will build a pattern or adjust the finished template.
So you need to know:
- breast size
- Waist
- hip girth;
- the height of the dress from the shoulder line to the desired length (in the floor, below the knee, etc.)
Based on these parameters, you can easily build a simple pattern-template, which can then be improved in accordance with the selected model.
How to make ruffles?
Elegant dresses for girls (photos below) are made according to simple patterns.
Their beauty lies in the use of a large number of frills for finishing the lower edge, and for the formation of the skirt itself.
Making such a decor is easy. The scheme of work will be as follows:
- In this case, frills are made for the top of the dress.Cut the item as shown below.
- Cut strips of fabric of the desired width. The length is determined by the assembly coefficient. The larger the fabric should look, the longer the tape will be required.
- Sew each strip with a seam in large increments, stepping a short distance from the edge.
If you need a two-sided frill, for example, to decorate the hem of the hem, do the stitch on the blank strip not in the edge, but in the middle. - Pull one thread so that an assembly is formed on the second.
- When all the elements are made, begin to sew them sequentially to the base.
- If frills are not made on the whole product, but on its parts, combine everything into a single whole.
How to sew a magnificent dress?
Ruffles, which were mentioned in the previous section, create a relief, decor and at the same time give the dress volume.
However, it takes a lot of time and patience to make a large number of ruffled layers. There is another option, how to make an elegant dress for a girl.
Magnificent and at the same time airy, it will look spectacular on any figure.
To create such a model, you need the following:
- Make a specific pattern for the skirt.
- To sew a petticoat, preferably with regiline.
As for the template, you can also take it ready-made or build it yourself. The figure below shows a pattern where the front part is made as a whole. In this case, the skirt will have an easy assembly.
The second method of manufacturing a lush hem
To get a wavy surface, you will have to carve out the corresponding part, which is called the skirt-sun.
The direction of the
shared thread is indicated on the workpiece. It’s easy to build such a template in size. This can be done using a stick with a thread attached to the upper end of the writing instrument (pencil for paper, chalk for fabric).
A paper template is applied to the fold line. The part is hidden obliquely. As a result, you should get a circle with an inner hole with a diameter corresponding to the waistline.
The petticoat can be made according to the same pattern or different. As you can see in the diagram above, fluffy elegant long dresses for girls can be made from several additional layers of petticoats. They are connected with each other and the base. If, for example, tulle is used for them, the outer layer may be of another material or of the same.
Regiline is used to obtain a shape-holding edge. It gives rigidity to the seams and allows you to get beautiful waves on the hem. You can trim the edges with an oblique trim, but the effect will be slightly different.
How to choose the right model?
So, you saw how different elegant dresses are. For teenage girls, they can be both lush, with ruffles, and straight. It is important that the style fits the figure and the schoolgirl herself likes it. Any options are suitable for skinny ones; it’s better to choose chubby ones with fluffy skirts that make wide hips invisible and do not focus on the waist. Little girls will do any kind of thing.
When planning to sew with your own hands, measure the desires of the child with your experience and capabilities. If you are new to this business, take the simplest patterns. It is better to use additional decor. It is always easier to do. And also do not forget that sewing there is another no less interesting alternative - elegant knitted dresses for girls. Perhaps they are not suitable for graduation or some kind of too solemn official event, but for a family celebration, a visit or a summer holiday, they will be just right on the street.
Elegant dress for girls crochet
Entire sets are very cute and beautiful when panamas, handbags are made of the same yarn.
A summer dress on the straps is made of two parts. Knitting patterns for each are shown below.
After both blanks of the product are completed, you need to combine them into one.
An elegant dress for a girl with a crochet can be knitted according to the second scheme, which is shown next.
In this embodiment, there are even different decoration methods for cutout. The manufacturing technology is the same as in the previous case. Here are diagrams of the parts of the front and back. They are knitted in two parts, for which you can take yarn of different colors. It will look more interesting and spectacular.
As a result, you will get the product, as in the following photo.
You saw a lot of ideas and ways how to make an elegant dress for a girl with your own hands. Choose your favorite model, sew, knit. Delight your princess with new outfits.