Sewing Easy Dress Tutorial. <3

Those Skrinches are called Darts!

And, it looks like it would work really well. Can we see how the lacing in the back looks? I'm curious as to how close together it gets, since you only added seam allowance, no ease.

 

OMGG i love this tutorial!!! Macabee will have a dress too!! XDDD

wow but I can't add grommets ;__; i don't have a setter. guh....maybe i'll do what I did with my corset and try it..wow i reallty love this pattern!! I think I see a carebear dressing in order! XDD

 

You can get sets of grommets at sewing stores that include this little hand setter rod that you hit with a hammer.

 

+love to Blue Eternity!

I was home sick today, so I figured making this would perk me up ;D
This was a lot of fun to make, thanks so much

Excuse my "Hybrid" XD; Aiden's head is off being painted :P



















DoC Boy Body ;D

EVERYONE. MAKE THIS NOOOOOOWWWWWW

 

Aww thanks ;D
Nah, the X Stitch is a stitch my machine has n___n

 

I made a dress for Jinsung this morning n__n
I still have to go out and buy some ribbon & grommets, but here is is almost finished.
ANYWAY the tutorial was quite helpful.

 

x3 Here's the finished product!
I actually might add another set of grommets.. also please excuse the horrible photos. XD

 

Well, I have my altered pattern. I am going to make copies of it as I dont want to destroy my only copy with pins. The fun will begin this evening!

It seems the hobby/craft/fabric stores around here do not belive in small grommets so I have to mod it further. I could wait and order stuff online, but I am not good at waiting and I like being different. I was also thining of making a petticoat to go under it, but with my altered hemline I am not sure how I can make one that works and still looks decent. Too much math for one night for me.

I will be testing out my alterations with broadcloth first before I dare cut into the more expencive fabric. I will post again (hopfuly with pictures) when I can get it all to work.

 

I think I am going to have to do even more altering at this point.

Has anyone tried the basic patten on a girl???

I can't get the darn thing over her hips or shoulder, even with cutting a slit for the opening from the neckline to the waist, I had to extend it halfway down her bum. The skirt part turned out wonderful, its just her big resin boobies are making things odd up top. I can see what I am trying to do, but not how to do it and I think it may make me lose my mind

 

I Made one from your pattern! XD For my Soom Uyopo! i used 3 pannels and slightly stretchy marerial! Dagmire thanks you greatly for ehr Great dress!

It's also un-hemmed because i'm lazy and did it all by hand! stupid hand sewing!

 

It fit my girl perfectly once I tied the back up. And she has a bust, so hopefully other people will be able to get theirs to work.

I handsewed it because I was too lazy to use my machine. o.0;; I'm not very good with sewing machines. I'm going to walmart today though, to see if I can get some eyelits/gromets for a proper dress.

 

weeee I made one! It actually fits my gets really well (grrr photos aren't working so I have to give you links)

http://pics.livejournal.com/poeticlove7/pic/0005sh5e/

http://pics.livejournal.com/poeticlove7/pic/0005ttcr/

 

Hehe no it's a DOC girl..Bee-A. I need to get a Too still

 

I made one for my MNF girl, Angel. She's a DoC Bee-A...so she doesn't have very big boobs It fits her nicely with it all laced up

 

I made another dress, and I reallyreally love it n_____n
No pictures on a doll since she's not here yet :P BUT Ill update when she comes







And a rose necklace to match ;D

 

Thanks for posting such a cute and simple dress! (Runs off to find some fabric scraps to try it out).

Perhaps for those (like me) who don't have any of those little grommets, loopy trim (eg scalloped lace) could be sewn along the edges of the back opening - then you could lace the ribbon through the loops on the edge of the trim. (I've got a human-sized dress that laces up that way).

EDIT: It's finished - here are some pictures. The photo doesn't show it well, but I've just laced the ribbon through some lace sewn along the edges of the opening at the back.

 

^_^ Thanks for the eyelets method. Not going to dress my only male doll into a dress, but the eyelets gave me an idea for his outfit that I'm attempting to finish. Do the eyelets come in different sizes? I see that they are colored differently.

 

I tried it and I love the result! The doll it is for will arrive this week and I am going to post a pic of her in it when she does, but until this here is the dress:


It is YoSD size and I can't wait to try it on her. ^_^

 

I love this pattern!

 

I tried to make the dress out of cotton before digging into the more expensive fabrics. But it didn't look right as a dress on my chesty Sooah. (I imagine something with stretch would work better). But I shortened the Hem and it turned into a great skirt.

 

I adjusted mine to fit my girl n____n I made it way to high but its allll good now n___n
It works fine on her bust without darts but i think its cause of the lace ;D






MNF Soo big busted body ;D

 

got around to making it, and it fit fantastically, but i didnt want the lacing in the back not to show at all, so i took it in some in the back to make the v really pronounced. was amazingly simple! love it and now all my friends want therir own versions.













thanks so much for the pattern!

 

To the already made dress :3 I made the top WAY too long (it covered her poor face XD so I had to cut it down :P Ah, and to get the dress on her I have to take her arms off, because her dress is fitted and she has a VERY curvy waist, so nothing goes over it XD;

 

I'm pretty sure you could get around that problem by making the opening on the back extend down a bit further.

 

If I did that any more, Id have her bum showing XD;
Maybe if youre using a stretchier fabric than I am itl work, because my fabric has NO stretch, at all.

 

Heh. Yeah, stretch fabric sounds like the way to go

I was thinking of putting a zip in the side so that the lacing doesn't have to be undone everytime it's taken on and off - so something like that would work too (although then it stops being such a simple dress to make)

 

Well, my husband ended up making this dress for me, lol. I didn't like the middle, so I opted for a ribbon around the waist. We also did velcro in the back instead of the ribbon lacing. Here are some (poor quality) pictures of the front and back:





It was very challenging for me, so I gave up. My husband finished it in no time, however. :P

 

oooh, this is wonderful!!! I'm so making this after my son goes to bed!!! How has the whole dart thing worked out for us girl girly owners?

 

well, it's not very flashy, but it's the first thing i've ever made for my doll (or period, for that matter). i couldnt find any small enough eyelets, so i used clear snaps and sewed some small buttons over them ><





and yeah...i havent posted here in AGES, but i was looking for something easy to start sewing with. i ran into all sorts of problems XD the biggest one being that sharmin is almost 2x as wide as she is thick. so i had to make the side pieces much thinner.

thanks a lot for the tutorial it was a fun project!

 

=D
practically encouraging my mom as well as strangers to call him a girl/question his gender ^^;

 

wow i never got around to posting the dress i made for my little boy ^^;
i altered the pattern a bit and added a few things, made him a matching handbag and headdress and called him my little lolita XDDD *shot*

 

i altered the pattern for a long dress and it worked really well. once my friend posts some pix up of her doll wearing it, ill post some up over here too. velvet works really well, draping nicely over the figure.

 

Finished! For now, at least. I'm still considering adding some ribbon trim around the bottom, above the lace. It's all hand-sewn, and the first actual sewing project I've tried in a long time. So despite the messy stitches and uneven upper hem (more ribbon/trim to the rescue! XD), I'm satisfied with it for now. I have no dolls of this size yet, so for now it's displayed on a sculpey half-torso with the measurements of an SD girl, mounted on a plastic pipe held upright by two water bottles. ^^;

Sorry if the pictures are too big.... The front, side, and back of the skirt, in that order:

 

Ok, so I tried this pattern out on my MNF Shushu, Choie. I think next time I make it I may...make the back piece a little widder, but all in all it worked pretty well. (Oh, I didnt take these photo's, they were taken at a meet)

 

I really like the green skirt above. Just mentally picturing it with a little bustle...
I made the dress for a couple different dolls and it was so simple and ncely fitted. I cheated a little and used the hook half of hook and eye closures instead of grommets, so I just lace up the back. It worked quite well.

 

I'm gonna tweak the pattern a bit for when I make another since the back was very gappy on my girl but this is fantastic ^^ You can't see it but I actually left the botttom square, it's a little quirky that way XD

 

did a commission a while ago for both of these; the first one is the regular pattern, the second i extended it to floor-length and added sleeves.






((to see the full skirt))

^^ this pattern!

 

Mommy and I finished Ame's dress (chiwoo) I'll get some photos later. But we used the same pattern but we left the back as a V and put lace straps on with the lace trimming the V it worked really well!

 

Has anyone successfully tackled the problem with the hips being too wide to go through? I really want to make this dress for my doll, but I'm scared that when it's finished I won't be able to put it on her...also, the fabric I want to use isn't really stretchy at all, so it wouldn't be able to stretch over her hips.....any solutions that anyone has thought of?

 

The best solution I can think of is to make the center back cut about 3/4" longer (a smidge longer than 1/2 the difference between the waist and hip measurements of your doll).

If you don't want her butt showing, (I wouldn't) make a little hemmed triangle that will fit under the cut from the waist down. Finish it neatly and sew it to to inside of the dress on one side of the cut after you have put in the eyelets. Position it so side of the triangle is even with the waist of the dress.

You will be able to open the dress enough to let your doll's hips through and when the dress is laced there will be an extension that covers her bottom.

I hope I have described this well enough.

 

I got a vision of the dress right after I saw the finished thing.
Now I'm making a dress for a Luts Delf boy from my old dress. (A precious, pretty expensive dress too, but it was getting too small for me and I didn't wanna throw it away or sell it. YAY for doll clothes! Stay with your memories!)
And now I'v been doing my version for the last... six hours or so.
It sounds easy, but even the most easy version should take when carefully and neatly made atleast three hours or so
And I'm doing some REALLY RAD stuff here, using corset hooks for the lace etc. I'll edit this post and add some pictures after I'm done. Which will be somewhere today I think. I just have to make it ready. It already looks gorgeus even thou the upper and lower part are separate

 

My gosurori is ready! Or atleast I THINK SO. It might get something fancy to it someday, but for now I'm satisfied. Made from an old dress of mine too precious to be thrown away or sold~
I give you Little Blue JR.

 

And as you can see, the dress had been used in some of more.. Extreme things. It had white paint on it and some other weird stuff in it... We did a photoshoot with it w/ my friend... I'll find a picture of that waaait...

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r105/Elzariel/LillBlue5.jpg

There was a ribbon in the back, I might make something out of that... A pretty ribbon of black and violet.. /SIGH
But I kind of tried to stay loyal to the blueness of that modified version of the dress. I liked it. I hate growing up

 

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r.../LillBlue5.jpg

Oh my god, howpretty! Now I want to design a dress like that for my dollie. You stayed very true to the style of the original. You should be proud!

 

To Elzariel: I love your original dress, and the one you made out of it! The paint specks add character and I love that 'tail'! ^______^ Post up pictures of it on your Dollfie as soon as you can!


I made a dress! I used left over peices from my kimono and I love that lace! The lace that I've used at the back which the ribbon laces through, is falling apart, so I will put in some small eyelets instead, when I work out the best way to set them. Please excuse the badly sewn lines, I'm just getting used to a new (to me) sewing machine, and I haven't sewn in years.

I'm not sure about the measurements either, I won't find out if it's ok untill December. I've just gotten some more acurate numbers, so I will make another dress, different version, and compair the two dresses to see if I need to make any more changes to this one.






I love this lace! ^_______^

I forgot to mention that this is for a Dollzone 44cm Female Feilian Dollfie, but I based the measuements off MSD statistics I found.

 

Hi! I used your tutorial to make a dress for my doll yet-to-come Lucifer. My mom helped me out. ^^
Its not finished yet. Still need lace for the trimming but anyway here's pics:





thank you! love it if you made some more tutorials.

 

My dolly finally got here and I put her in that green skirt I made earlier right away! XD I had embellished it some more over the summer, and I was really glad to see it fit after all... This is a really great pattern. Sorry for the bad picture as far as seeing the skirt itself goes-- lighting was atrocious at my house and this is the only one that turned out alright.