Sewing

Making your own dress for your Sweet 15 or Quinceañera party can be a fun challenge. Creating a Sweet 15 dress is a lot like sewing a wedding dress, but your dress should be a younger style,...

One-shoulder dresses are an enduring trend. Depending upon the style, the dress may be draped and elegant or much more playful. Choose classic black in a fitted style or bold color accented with...

Adding decorative trim to a garment can change the entire look and spruce up clothing that needs revamping. If you have experience sewing, it is simple and painless, and will save you from having...

A silk handkerchief dress looks like a breezy, expensive designer piece in your wardrobe, but you can easily make one yourself for less than $30. Once the materials are gathered, you can complete...

Making your own dresses and clothing is not as difficult as it may seem. Clothing from commercial retailers is expensive, as well as limited in fit, style and color. With a few basic sewing...

Dress forms are expensive and hard to find, especially if you need one in a plus size. They also have to be adjusted according to your measurements, but they are based on the typical contours of...

You don't have to be an expert seamstress to make a sweet dress for a special little girl. All you need are some basic sewing skills and a pretty pillowcase to make a unique dress that you can't...

You can make medieval dresses that are historically in period, attractive and comfortable for costume parties, theatrical costumes, or historical re-enactment events. Fortunately, most medieval...

Many in the Goth scene resort to DIY fashion for their dresses, rather than mass-produced products. When crafting a new dress, set yourself apart from the crowd with techniques that will produce a...

Renaissance dresses are an elegant and flattering option for Renaissance fairs, costume balls, masquerades or even weddings. Patterns, construction and shaping of Renaissance dresses can range...

The 1970s said farewell to styles made popular by the hippie movement and hello to the age of disco. Styles, cuts and fabrics of the 1970s made the look unique, and many people want to wear a...

Sewing, especially baby clothes, can be a fuseful hobby. Learn to sew, if you do not know how to already. Many fabric and sewing stores offer courses. The local classifieds may offer personal...

Women have designed and crafted their own dresses for a long time. Even though mass-produced garments took over the world of women's fashion, some ladies still get a rush from creating their own...

Making a colonial costume requires a you to understand a little bit about society and status in the 1700s. The clothing that a person wore reflected who they were and what position they held....

How to repurpose a womans shirt into a toddlers dress.

Nursing dresses are a nice addition to any breastfeeding mother's wardrobe. A dress can be thrown on and look casual or dressy, depending upon the style, fabrics and accessories. If you are...

Girls' peasant dresses are comfortable, easy to wear and practical. With minimal adjustments, a dress can be shortened into a top or used as a nightgown. Choose lightweight and soft fabrics for...

Dresses offer an easy to wear and comfortable wardrobe option for both little and big girls. Fortunately, many girls' dresses are quite simple, offering an excellent project option for someone...

There are not so easy pillowcase dresses that take time and sewing skills to make and then there are easy to make pillowcase dresses. For the person without the time or the skill this is the...

Simple to construct and easy to wear, sundresses in a variety of fabrics can make any girl or woman feel ladylike and simply elegant during summertime. Learning how to make your own sundresses...

One of the basic sewing skills is the procedure for folding material (fabric) for a blind hem stitch. You are lucky if clothes purchased off the rack fit you, in length, perfectly. However, most...

For everyday wear, little girls need clothes that they can play in. Special occasions, however, call for special dresses. Casual, unisex clothes are popular, though, and it can be difficult to...

You can create a designer Pillowcase style dress quickly and easily with only a few sewing skills.

How to make a Barbie outfit without a store bought pattern.

In this article, I am going to give you easy to follow instructions on how to make a simple baby dress pattern.

Stitching on a dress collar requires placing thread loops at the corners of the collar to create an angular shape. Sew the collar of a dress with information from a fashion designer in this free...

To get a clean shape on a dress collar, turn the fabric right side out and pull gently on the embedded thread loops, which pulls out the acute corners. Achieve a clean shape for a collar with...

Sewing a dress together involves closing the darts for a tight fit, sewing buttonholes down the front panel, joining the front and back pieces, adding the sleeves and hemming the raw edges....

A homemade dress can be decorated using a fancy fabric, decorative beads or unique buttons. Choose embellishments for a dress with information from a fashion designer in this free video on...

A dress pattern can only include the top half of the dress, as the bottom can be cut and sewn in any way desired. Use a dress pattern to create a precise dress with information from a fashion...

The dress pattern is placed on the wrong side of the fabric, and tailor's chalk is used to trace around the paper onto the material. Transfer the pattern shapes to the fabric with information from...

The collar interfacing should be placed onto the inside of the dress fabric and ironed on to adhere it to the material's surface. Iron the inner lining fabric on top of the collar fabric with...

When cutting out a dress pattern from the paper, be sure to leave at least a half-inch seam allowance on all sides of each shape. Cut out the paper dress pattern with information from a fashion...

Drawing a collar for a dress pattern requires making precise measurements that are wider on the ends and narrower in the middle. Draw out a collar shape to add to a dress with information from a...

When tracing a dress pattern onto paper, follow the contours of the body measurements to create the shape of the dress. Map out the construction of the dress onto paper with information from a...

There are many measurements that must be taken in order to make a dress, including the upper chest, the mid chest, the waist, the hips, across the back and down the arms. Measure a body thoroughly...

The dress pattern is created by marking down the measurements onto paper, and sketching out the basic shape of each panel for the dress. Transfer the body measurements onto pattern paper with...

Making pageant dresses is not an easy task; however, if you are a skilled seamstress, they do pose an interesting challenge and great opportunity for creativity. The formal gowns worn at pageants...

What looks or feels as nice on a hot summer night as a cool, pretty sun dress. There are several ways you can go about it if you want to know how to make a sun dress. But I will share with you...

The difference between a Christmas dress and one you would wear on any other occasion is embellishment. This project will be a child's A-line jumper dress that requires no pattern. Of course you...

A 1920s flapper dress is a classic costume for a Halloween or masquerade party. It's easy to make with a minimum of skills and supplies and can be finished in an afternoon.

The babydoll dress became popular when Carroll Baker's character wore one in the 1956 flick "Baby Doll." Meant to provoke images of a child-turned-woman and a kind of sexy innocence, the babydoll...

You can personalize a T-shirt dress made with two men's T-shirts. They are fun to make and so simple that you'll want a whole wardrobe of them for the summer. Purchase two of the same color, or...

Halter dresses are a popular style of dress. They are trendy and fashionable and often worn at proms, weddings or just casually in the summertime. Halter tops contain a piece of fabric that loops...

Rather than use a traditional pattern to make your garment, the option of draping allows freedom for designing. Viewing the relationship of the fabric to the body as you create your garment allows...

Many little girls dream of princesses dressed in gowns. Politically correct or not, it doesn't change the fact little girls tend to love textiles, enjoy the feel of satin and appreciate the...

In today's world of pageantry, everyone wants a new and one-of-a-kind dress that will stand out and wow the judges. Designing a dress can be overwhelming and difficult at first, but it often...

Making a tutu halter dress is relatively easy, and you won't require the skills of a seamstress. What's more, if you get it right the first time, your little one will have a pretty outfit for her...

The first thing many budding fashion designers learn to make are dresses, which are extremely versatile in terms of design variety. Dresses can come in many different lengths, with different...

Making girls' dresses is easier than you might think. It can even be done without a pattern. This adaptable, self-drafted pattern for a girl's dress will work well for sizes from toddler to...