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Doll Dressmaking Series: A Simple Trick

March 31, 2015 Lisa Press
Doll Dressmaking a simple trick

There are a lot of easy ways to change up a doll dress. This trick can be used in a number of sewing situations, but I'll start with showing you how on the reversible dress. After you see how easy it is, you may want to try it with sleeves or a collar.

You will see this is an excellent way to use scraps of fabric.

Start with two pieces of fabric that you like together.

two fabrics together

Sew the two pieces length wise. Your goal is to create a piece of fabric large enough to cut the outside of the reversible dress pattern from.

sew fabrics together

Once you've sen them together, you may want to add trim, but you don't have to.

adding ric rac to simple doll dress

Sew trim along the seam you just created.

sewing on ric rac

Then lay your pattern out on your piece of fabric and cut.

simple doll dress trick

Next cut a lining and proceed to make the reversible dress. As I mentioned earlier this can be done with sleeves or a collar too. 

Reversible doll dress trick
Finished doll dress
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