Summer dress with own hands

Once the summer has completely come into its own, all girls and women want to dilute their boring gray wardrobe with some bright and fresh outfits. But, unfortunately, in our time not everyone can afford to just go and buy a few new items for their wardrobe immediately. Therefore, today we will consider the most simple and at the same time interesting ideas for tailoring clothes at home. Thanks to the given master classes, you can easily sew a summer dress with your own hands from such a fabric and style as you wish. Moreover, this season as never before popular light and colorful outfits in combination with the original accessories and embroidery.

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How to choose the material for the future dress?

Sewing a dress for the summer - no problem, and in principle, to cope with this can any girl, even completely far from sewing, the main thing - to pick the right fabric. To give preference, naturally, it is better to natural materials or with insignificant addition of synthetics, because it is thanks to her that clothes shrink less.

Important! Tissues of natural origin are so popular due to their softness, hygroscopicity and hypoallergenicity.

Indisputable leaders among such fabrics are cotton, linen, silk and viscose:

• Natural silk is considered a rather expensive option, and due to the fact that the material itself is slippery, it is difficult to work with it. But in terms of quality and tactile sensations, he has no equal.
• With your own hands, it will be easier to sew a dress from cotton or linen fabric, as well as viscose. The listed materials are not capricious, untreated edges will not be strewed, for work with them special needles are not needed, as in the case with knitwear.

Important! You can try to change old clothes or buy in a specialized store as much as you need the material.

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How to choose the right shape for the shape?

The constitution of each person also dictates certain rules. That is why it is important before sewing a summer dress with your own hands, to analyze the features of your figure:

• The sporty skinny girls are more suited to the direct cut of clothes.
• But if a figure has more expressive curves, a more complex approach should be applied. In such cases, the silhouette is formed by assemblies, belts and draperies. Everything is designed to hide the flaws of the body and focus on beneficial features.

Patterns, offered in popular women's magazines and the Internet, are suitable for any variants of the structure of the figure. It's much easier to take a ready-made pattern than to create it yourself from scratch on a basic grid from scratch. Simple versions of summer dresses suggest a tight fitting style, as well as the absence of any complicated details.

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The most suitable options for summer dresses

It's better to choose an unpretentious dress for an inexperienced tailor for the summer. With your own hands, patterns, as we have already decided before, it is better not to try to do it, but to use ready-made patterns with a minimum amount of suture. This pattern can be obtained in several ways. For example:

• Find the style in the magazine and build a self-pattern according to the basic grid. Naturally, this will require some experience and skill.
• It is possible to take as a basis an old dress of a liked style for the sample. In this case, it is necessary to cut the thing at the seams and use the obtained parts as a pattern.

As it turned out, to update the wardrobe is not difficult, because the patterns in both cases are completely free.

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The simplest styles of dresses for the summer

If you are a beginner, it is better to sew the most simple silhouette dress for the summer with your own hands. These simplified silhouettes are:

• trapezium;Complete and incomplete sun.

Important! In such cases, you just need to take measurements, namely, measure the chest girth, the length of the product, the girth of the hips and waist. Significantly easier work may lack sleeves, because exactly these elements are considered the most difficult in terms of cut. Without them, any beginner seamstress can sew a summer dress.

Thanks to a simple silhouette, you can also not burden yourself by tucking out darts on the chest, taking into account the girth of the hips and waist. The most important thing is to successfully plant the top of the dress. In this case, the upper part of the trapezium will play the role of the neck of the dress and the line of the shoulders. Or it will pass through the armpits, if you decide to sew a sundress.

Important! Ideally, these styles look on toddlers, because ruffles, assemblies and sleeves-lanterns give them even more tenderness. In addition, sewing on kiddies is easier, because their figures do not yet have so many bends and do not need to do many darts.

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How to sew a summer dress without pattern?

Simple summer dresses can be sewn by your own hands and completely without using a pattern, even the most usual ones. To do this, you need to choose a style with the assemblies and draperies. For example, a half-sun, which can be assembled from two identical geometrically regular semicircles.

In such an item, the top of the dress will begin slightly below the clavicles, and the lower part may be as long as you like - it all depends on the choice of the hostess. It will be necessary: ​​

1. Make only two seams on each side and stitch them not to the very bottom.
2. From above, make a kuliska, into which then you will thread the braid to fix the strings.

And that's it, the dress is ready! Here is such a simple, but in its own way the original outfit can be worn with a beautiful belt or without it.

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How to make a dress from an ordinary T-shirt?

And now we sew a summer dress with our own hands from the T-shirts already in the closet. More precisely, it will not be sewing as such, but reworking the product. You just need to sew a couple of wide frills on the bottom of your T-shirt, and the dress is ready. And, you will spend no more than 30 minutes on this. Agree, nothing complicated - the big role here is played by the seamstress's fantasy, how much she will play out.

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How to sew a beach cotton dress yourself?

A sewn cotton dress for the summer with your own hands is sure to come in handy for trips to the beach or trips to the sea. Need:

1. Buy in the store or prepare an existing fabric.
2. Then make the basic measurements and make a simple pattern on them, as we have previously considered.
3. First cut out the front and back, and then add them together and spend it on the side seam.
4. In advance it is necessary to note in the product of the place where the rubber band will be inserted. It is necessary for this:
   • Simply attach a dress to yourself.
   • Now you need to cut out the gum of the same size, while you need to grab yourself to understand if you will, then wear it comfortably.
   • At the end sew the rubber bands and place them evenly, and then sew them.
   • If you need you can still make a frill.

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How to remake unnecessary things in a beautiful dress?

You can make an easy summer dress with your own hands from old things. So, take an old skirt and a T-shirt, or a piece of cloth lying around in the closet. The main thing is that they fit together. Better - if the top of the product is knitted, but the skirt is lighter. We make a dress according to the presented scheme in just an hour:

1. Trim the jersey in the middle or slightly lower - everything will depend on the volume of the chest.
2. Wrap around your waist several times the material from which the skirt will sew, and cut. Cloth fold in half, sew on each side.
3. With a larger stitch, make the assembly in the forward and reverse direction.
4. Connect the top and bottom together, and then sweep. The main thing is to see that there are no folds on top, but they are below. If everything is done right, you can continue sewing on the machine.

Important! If necessary, you can sew a belt to the dress. You just need to fold the long strip twice from the existing material and stitch it on the machine.

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Original dress with your own hands from a coarse calico

If you want to not only fill up your wardrobe with some original and light element, but also surprise others, try sewing a dress of calico by yourself:

1. Take a square piece of cloth with a side of one and a half meters.
2. Then fold it in half and take measurements of the volume of the chest and thighs.
3. Measure out the bottom of the material according to the semi-grip of a larger gauge.
4. Next, draw the line up, without reaching the edge of 25 cm.
5. Now you need to stitch the product and extend the line by 1 cm.
6. As a result, you are forming backstage, and they will need to stretch the ribbon.
7. At the end, sew the shoulder sections or chop them with a beautiful brooch.

In this article we have offered you just a few of the simplest ideas how to make a summer dress with your own hands. But you can not limit yourself to such models, because everything depends only on the number and type of material at hand or old things, as well as your imagination and sewing skills. Experiment, and for sure you will have several successful models in which you will look like a goddess, despite the extremely simple cut of the product.