دوخت پیراهن دخترانه

First, decide how long you want the dress to be (measure from the child’s upper chest down to the knee or mid-calf or wherever you want it).  Measure up from the bottom of the skirt, and cut off any remaining skirt at the top.  (If you are making this for a tiny baby or little toddler…….or you have an extra big skirt that you’re working with, consider turning the dress inside out and cutting off several inches off the width and then sewing up a new side seam.  You don’t want an insane amount of fabric or the dress will just look too bulky.)

If the skirt has a zipper, turn the skirt inside side out and lay the skirt flat, with the zipper along one side.  Sew a seam along the edge of the zipper, creating a new seam that excludes the zipper.  Then gradually move your seam over, meeting up with the old side seam of the skirt.  (My new seam was only 5-6 inches long.  I didn’t go down the entire length of the skirt because I didn’t need to.)  Now cut the zipper away, and any other extra fabric.  Then zig-zag (or serge) your raw edges of the new seam.  Once you turn the skirt right side out, this new section of the side seam will taper inwards a bit but it won’t matter after you gather it all in.