New dresses for my girls in classic blue and white seersucker. Nothing says Spring or Summer quite like seersucker especially with the cutest ruffle detail! Sharing the details on how I made these dresses with a white cotton yoke neckline.
A DIY tutorial to make seersucker yoke neck dresses with a ruffle trim detail. The perfect Spring and Summer dress for your little ones.
A very unusually warm day in February in New York so we headed to the beach for these photos. Barefoot and all my girls pulled out their best modeling capabilities to show off their new dresses. Just the sweetest, super easy to make and breezy to wear.
Below are the instructions for how to make this seersucker yoke neck style dress.
Supplies:
- cotton seersucker fabric
- white cotton Kona fabric
- lightweight fusible interfacing
- Simplicity pattern #2270
- 20″-22″ invisible white zipper
- sewing machine & thread
- scissors
- straight pins
- rotary cutter & clear quilting ruler
- self healing mat
Step 1: Using the Simplicity pattern #2270 dress B cut out the pieces. I also cut out lightweight fusible interfacing for the yoke portion just to give a little stiffness to the neck.
Step 2: Follow the pattern for the dress construction.
Step 3: To make the ruffle trim I cut 3/4″ bias strips. Measure the circumference of the dress then multiple by 2 to get the length of bias strips you need for a one fluffy ruffle. Sew all the strips together to make one long piece and then sew a loose zig zag stitch down the middle of the strip. Gently tug on one of the zig zag threads to make the strip ruffle up. Pin the ruffle in position on the dress and sew a straight stitch down the middle to attach. Finally go back and use a seam ripper to remove the zig zag stitch.
The perfect lightweight dress for all those Spring and Summer events. Cheers to sewing all the things!
Thanks for joining me for this seersucker dresses project. Please leave any questions in the comments below and be sure to follow me on social media for sneak peeks, tools and project inspiration:
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the dresses are beautiful, but your girls are so adorable!!!
On the beach in February! You lucky girls! The dresses (and the children) are adorable.
Your girls are adorable!
I'm such a sucker for seersucker. Love the ruffles at the bottom.
#1: the girls are gorgeous, #2: those dresses are too
Such adorable dresses. Thanks for the tutorial.
SO cute, oh my word. 🙂
Very very cute! I love round neck yokes and seersucker is such a great fabric.
Those are adorable! So are the little girls modeling them.
The dresses are adorable and the girls look so sweet. I made matching dresses for my girls, who are now grown, and they always loved them. It is fun to see seersucker being used again.
Your girls and their dresses are adorable!
Those are so preppy cute!!! Please come link it up at my party tonight! Starts at 9, link up once appear on 4 blogs!
♥Linsey at The Farmhouse Porch
Those are so sweet, I think I'm going to try to make some for my great nieces.
These are adorable. White and blue is such lovely combination…
Those models sure are cute! Good work on the dresses.
Love this! We just posted our Kitchen Fun and Crafty Friday link party and would love for you to stop by and share this…http://kitchenfunwithmy3sons.blogspot.com/2012/03/kitchen-fun-and-crafty-friday-link.html
lOVE THEM – REALLY PRETTY
These are so adorable!! I will be looking for that pattern – my girl needs a dress like this for this summer. And the seersucker! SO CUTE!
Heidi
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