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
- 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 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!
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Cassie @ Primitive & Proper says
February 23, 2012 at 12:35 PMthe dresses are beautiful, but your girls are so adorable!!!
Korrie@RedHenHome says
February 23, 2012 at 3:04 PMOn the beach in February! You lucky girls! The dresses (and the children) are adorable.
Lorraine B says
February 24, 2012 at 1:55 AMYour girls are adorable!
Melissa says
February 24, 2012 at 3:06 AMI'm such a sucker for seersucker. Love the ruffles at the bottom.
Katy says
February 24, 2012 at 3:09 AM#1: the girls are gorgeous, #2: those dresses are too
Mama Jodi says
February 24, 2012 at 6:51 AMSuch adorable dresses. Thanks for the tutorial.
Sarah says
February 24, 2012 at 2:33 PMSO cute, oh my word. 🙂
Abby says
February 24, 2012 at 7:20 PMVery very cute! I love round neck yokes and seersucker is such a great fabric.
Suzanne@Meridian Road says
February 25, 2012 at 12:07 AMThose are adorable! So are the little girls modeling them.
Sherry says
February 25, 2012 at 4:20 PMThe 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.
Brandi says
February 26, 2012 at 5:17 PMYour girls and their dresses are adorable!
THE FARMHOUSE PORCH says
February 27, 2012 at 10:20 PMThose 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
Helen and her Daughters says
February 28, 2012 at 2:36 AMThose are so sweet, I think I'm going to try to make some for my great nieces.
Pam says
March 1, 2012 at 3:14 AMThese are adorable. White and blue is such lovely combination…
Jelli says
March 1, 2012 at 9:37 PMThose models sure are cute! Good work on the dresses.
Jill @ KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com says
March 2, 2012 at 1:54 PMLove 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
Michael says
February 16, 2013 at 5:19 AMlOVE THEM – REALLY PRETTY
Amber Heidi says
May 11, 2013 at 7:41 PMThese 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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