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Summer Dress Patterns for Girls

One of my favorite things to wear in the summer are dresses. They are so much cooler to wear than pants, and most days I find it’s easier to get dressed since I only have to put on ONE thing.  My girls love wearing dresses in the summer as well. Since I love to sew dresses for them, and have been researching summer dress patterns for girls, I thought I’d share with you some of my favorite dress patterns and free tutorials that are on this site.

Summer Dress Patterns to Sew for Girls

Before we get to the list, I thought I’d share with you a few of my favorite tips when it comes to sewing summer dresses:

One:

Make sure you read all of the directions before you start sewing.  Many times someone will email me with a question about a pattern, and the answer is in the tutorial, just a few sentences down. It’s always a good idea to make sure you know what you are doing before you start. So take a second and read all of the directions FIRST.

Two:

Choose your fabric carefully. I don’t know about you, but my girls love to play outside during the summer. There is no point in my sewing them a summer sundress then have it be so “fragile” that they can’t wear it outside to play.  I always choose cotton fabrics that are easy to move in and easy to wash!

Three:

Wash but don’t dry. Speaking of washing, I generally don’t recommend drying a handmade dress in the dryer.  You’ll get a better result if you let the dress dry on the line.

Summer Dress Patterns for Girls:

Most of these are free tutorials

1- Summer Dress made from two t-shirts

Upcycle a T-shirt into a girls maxi dress with this sewing tutorial. A free pattern for a t-shirt maxi dress on polkadotchair.com

2- Maxi Dress made from a t-shirt

3- Tiered Pillowcase Dress

Baby Quilt and Dress made from Fat Quarters

4- Baby Pillowcase dress and matching quilt

 

5- Pillowcase dress with waistband

Maxi Dress Tutorial

6- Striped Summer Maxi Dress

Sewing Tutorial to make a simple knit T-Shirt dress by Melissa Mortenson of PolkadotChair.com

7- T-Shirt Dress

A cute dress to sew for teens and tweens, Coco dress pattern

8- Coco Dress (FYI: this is a pattern for purchase)

Easy Summer Sundress or Swim Cover up sewing pattern.

9- Terry Cloth Dress

 

Now tell me, what are some of your favorite summer dresses to sew? Do you have a tutorial or pattern that you love? Please share a link to it in the comments!

 

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