How to lengthen the knitted dress with your own hands?

Sometimes it happens that the dress is too short, and you do not want to part with it. For example, if you were given it, or it was bought online without fitting, or jumped because you got better. It turns out that there are several effective ways to remedy the situation. How to lengthen the knitted dress and leave your favorite outfit in the wardrobe - we'll take a closer look at the options in this article.

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Recommendations for hem extension

To make a short woman's dress longer is easier than it might initially seem. Depending on how much the hem should go down, you can:

• Add a lace.
• Dissolve the hem, carefully steam it off with wet gauze and turn it back, leaving a piece of fabric for a length.
• Make a coquette.
• Put a strip of other fabric on the hem.
• Set the shuttlecocks( horizontal, vertical, diagonally, freely priborennye or form a counter folds).
• Make a long translucent case.

Important! Dresses with a train look very impressive, adding that very easily. Mount it to the dress is not necessary - you can just tie it at the waist.

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Lace

Lace should be chosen either in the tone of the dress or in contrast. The insert can be made on the bottom line - the strip is just gently sewed to the hem.

Important! On the waist line, lace is not recommended, since a similar method can result in a visual increase in volume.

There is a very interesting, but more laborious option to lengthen the dress with your own hands:

1. The lower part of the skirt is cut as smoothly as possible at a level of 5-10 cm from the edge.
2. The insert is used to rejoin the cut with the main part.

Important! By lacy ligature, you can additionally let loose all of the beads, sequins or rhinestones, this will add alongside a special festivity.

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Playing on contrast: additional strip

If you need to add about 20 cm to the length of the dress, you can use a similar fabric of contrasting color: to white sewn black or to red - black. Here you can connect your imagination by typing a canvas of strips of different widths and colors. The simplest thing, if the texture of a thing allows, is to connect satin dense ribbons.

The original way to beautifully lengthen the dress is to let the strip of elastic artificial leather( lacquer or matte) or translucent fabric.

Important! As an option - you can make the bottom mottled. However for harmony it is necessary to add an element from the same fabric.

The first way is at the breast level:

• Make a brooch in the form of a decorative flower or bow. Tie an elegant handkerchief around your neck.
• Make an overhead pocket.
• Sew buttons that are covered with the insert material.

The second way is to change the sleeves, changing:

• Cuffs, completely replacing them with new ones.
• The length of the insert, which will be similar in color or style to the one that will be launched at the bottom of the product.
• Tight buttons.
• Style, adding patch pockets.

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Work at the waist level

Changing the dress length for different reasons is possible not only along the bottom line. Very interesting, but more time-consuming work is also possible on the waist line.

Important! In the process of transforming the dress-case, there may be difficulties with flashing the darts. They need to dissolve and make a coquette of a fabric, similar to the one from which the product is made.

If the skirt is quite wide, then it can easily be lowered down:

• The simplest thing is to take a simple knitted fabric and sew it between the lower and upper parts of the garment.
• The upper part of the insert must correspond to the waist circumference.
• The bottom should be slightly wider.
• The insert is better to make of two trapezoidal pieces - so the thing will fit well on a figure.

Important! A coquette does not have to be a rectangle. The central part of both the lower and upper cut is sharpened. At the same time, the corresponding changes are made at the same time.

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Shutters

Beautiful curvy flounces will be suitable for straight skirt or knitted tight outfit.

Shuttle flaps can be fastened as follows:

• Directly on the front side of the skirt, when the cut-off lines of the flounces are processed decoratively and remain outside. The bottom line of the hem is under the inset.
• The upper cut of flounces is attached to the skirt on the inside. The hem is on the front.
• The hem of the hem of the skirt and flounces are combined on the front side. The connecting seam will be placed inside.

Important! Shuttlecocks are obtained by means of a free set of the edge of a rectangular web on the yarn, followed by attachment to the main fabric. Can be made as one layer, or several.

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Translucent case

The translucent case is made of matching fabric - chiffon, organza. The rectangular cut can be stuck along the edges and sewn to a tight rubber band, which can be easily hidden under a decorative belt.

Important! You can make a translucent skirt with a scent on a wide belt, wrapped around the waist. This element creates the illusion of length and looks very original.

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How can I beautifully lengthen the knitted thing?

• Knitwear has the property of stretching over time. Therefore, things of this material need to be lengthened either through the cut at the waist with the appropriate insert, or through an accurate lengthening of the hem.
• Pay attention to the weight of the sewn cut: too heavy a piece of knitwear can not stand and hang.

Important! Work with knitwear is carried out necessarily with special needles just for this kind of fabric. Otherwise - first there will be holes, and then they will go into arrows.

• For natural jersey, for example, flax sarafans and dresses, the insertion fabric should not be artificial. In the case where you need to adjust just a couple of centimeters, add elastic lace.
• If you know how to crochet, you can turn the outfit into a real masterpiece: using the thread of the hem as the basis, impose a lace of the necessary length. If you have the skills and relevance of the design of the model, you should pay attention to the Irish lace, where the crocheted elements are assembled together, forming a beautiful pattern.

Important! The knitted dress, sewn on a figure, with a light lush skirt made of organza, tulle, chiffon looks wonderful.

Beautifully lengthen the knitted dress with your own hands will help the following non-standard solutions:

• You can sew a piece of fabric by attaching it at the seams.
• Attach the "belt", leaving the part for the decorative node.
• Calculate skirt-eight, where instead of the waist, you can take the width of the hem. Such an insert is made in the floor.

Important! If the toilet can be attributed to the evening version - add a train, rear wedges made more authentic.

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Elongation of the bottom of the dress behind

If there is a harness behind, it can be beaten through the wedge insert. This element can be transformed into a magnificent train, if you sew on it beautiful volanys.

Loop can be pulled straight from under the belt, increasing gradually the tiers of the fabric. For example: narrow tiers are placed at the very top, closer to the bottom they become wider, below the edge of the skirt, again narrowed. Must be a magnificent diamond.

Also from a translucent fabric it is possible to make a case, having shortened it in front. If the dress is in the form of a "fish" with a lavish povyubnikom, the "tail" is sewed flounces, and its base is fixed on the povyubnik.

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Wedding dress extension

The most complex options are beautiful wedding dresses with lush skirts. But also these dresses are also lengthened, for this you can:

• Sew an additional layer on the bottom row of suitable lace.
• Slightly widening the junction of the skirt and corset, if necessary, to deliver a strip of fabric.
• In addition to sew a layer of tulle on the petticoat, this will make the dress longer and lush.

Even without special skills, it is really realistic to lengthen the knitted dress with your own hands. Get a little imagination, and you will get a new original dress.