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My new addiction: Another pillowcase dress

May 25, 2011 by Erin Heaton

It’s official. I’m in love with these pillowcase dresses. I’m not ready to try anything more complicated, but these dresses are so easy, I could make a dozen of them. And as a side benefit, they are hard to outgrow! As Elise gets taller, she can wear it as a long shirt.

I found this cute navy, pink and red floral fabric on clearance for $3/yard at Jo-Ann. I loved the color pallette and the price was awesome.

After my first pillowcase dress, I needed to figure out a way to make the ties part of the dress so they wouldn’t come loose in the wash.

I sewed extra wide bias tape along the bottom hem, so my solution was to use the rest of the bias tape for the ties. I used a single piece all the way around the arm holes. It worked perfectly.

My time is improving; this one took me less than two hours, start to finish. I used the first dress as a pattern and that sped up the cutting. I also think doing the straps / arm holes like shown above was a lot simpler than sewing a pocket and threading the straps through. (Not that that way is hard; this was just easier and quicker overall.)

Thanks to Elise’s friend Alice for letting us use her playset and toys for our photo shoot!

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