Now it's the baby girl's turn to have her shirts converted into dresses. We did this quite often with the big girl's shirts as she grew too tall for them.
I know the pictures are awful, but the baby girl is also going through a stage where she'd prefer to spend her days sans-clothing, so she was a rather reluctant model this time.
This sewing project is a quick and easy way to convert a girl's shirt into a dress. It's one of our favorite methods to extend the life of a shirt that has been outgrown in length but otherwise fits.
Just measure the hem of the shirt (all the way around) and double that measurement. Then cut a swath of woven fabric about 10" wide and as long as the measurement taken before.
Sew two lines of gathering threads at the top of the fabric.
I use my serger to sew up the ends to make the fabric into a circle. I gather up the edge with gathering and pin it right sides together to the shirt hem. Then I serge the two together. I use the serger to finish the hem edge. Then I turn under the serged hem and topstich with my sewing machine.
It generally takes less than a 1/2 hour and I have a "new" dress for my daughter.
I love, love, love this idea. And now i am pulling all sorts of shirts out of my daughter's Goodwill box, LOL!
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