To tell you the truth, I’d never heard of a Pillow Case Dress before. My first thought was a child’s dress made out of an old pillow case — you know – cut out a hole in the top for head, and cut arm openings on each side. Make a finishing hem in all three cut areas and presto! A pillow case dress. (Actually that might be a good tutorial to work on — give me a few days to ponder that and see what I can come up with).
The REAL pillow case dress tutorial is at MacyAugustusBlogspot and it’s a beautiful dress – and awesome tutorial. Check out the beautiful little girl modeling the dress — I’d like to have her too!
These are so easy to make that a beginner sewer could make them.
If you’d like to add a couple of pockets to the dress, check out the free pocket instructions at PatternsThatFitYou.com. Every little girl needs a couple of pockets to keep her goodies in!
How To Make A Smocked Top / Dress
Have you ever done smocking? This could be a whole new sewing niche all by itself. Pretty-Ditty Blogspot has a really neat top that she’s done the “shirring” on the fabric and made a top for her daughter. The tutorial is great, and goes into detail how to do the shirring, then on to making the summer top. Try making a few of these for your customer waiting area and see how quickly the orders stack up.
Well, since I’m a little on the “lazy” side, I got some smocked fabric that I’m going to make little summer dresses for our little granddaughters —- check out this fabric:
Already smocked – how about that? Ok Sienna and Sarah, I’m on it – and to you out there, I’ll show you MY pictures just as soon as I get these made! They’ll be cute, even though I didn’t do the shirring by hand.
NOTE: Whether you’re doing the shirring by hand or buying smocked fabric – you could still sell a ton of these if you had some made up in a variety of sizes for toddlers through about size 8 or 10.