How to Make a Pillowcase Dress
Learn how to make a pillowcase dress. Simple tutorial to help even the non-crafty person make a cute and inexpensive dress!
Ingredients
Scale
- Sewing Needle
- Sewing Thread
- Sewing Machine
- Scissors
- Wide Elastic
- Bias Binding
- Safety Pins
- Coordinating Ribbon
- Tape Measure
- 1 Standard Size Pillowcase
Instructions
- Start with one pillowcase that you have cleaned and ironed.
- Measure your child from their shoulder to knee.
- Now, measure this same distance on your pillowcase from the open end, and cut straight across.
- On each side of the pillowcase at the cut edge, draw arm holes. This will be shaped like a letter “J” with the top of the J at the cut edge of your pillowcase. It will be about 3 inches deep. Don’t be afraid to freehand this.
- Fold the two top edges ¼ inches to the inside. Fold down and press these edges again, this time ¾ inches.
- Stitch along the first fold from one end to the other. This will start forming a tunnel.
- Cut your elastic into two 6 inch pieces. Put a safety pin to one end of one piece and use that to thread the elastic through one of the tunnels. This will form the neckline.
- Stitch across the open end of each tunnel to hold your elastic in place. Repeat with the other elastic and tunnel.
- Cut two pieces of bias binding, each 28 inches long.
- Slip one arm hole edge into the fold of one of the binding pieces, leaving 9 inches overhanging the top. These will form the ties to secure the dress on.
- At one end of the binding, start stitching along the free edge, moving all the way around the arm hole and to the other end of the binding. Repeat for the second arm hole.
- Thread your ribbon into each of the arm holes, tying at the top.
- Sew several securing stitches at the side seam to keep the ribbon from being pulled out.