How to Add a Skirt to a Baby Onsie
I can't look to share this next project with you! My sweetness friend and neighbor just gave birth to a piffling girl, and I decided to hand make a few gifts for her, including a onesie apparel. They're so cute and really piece of cake to make. You volition need a sewing machine, but even a novice sewer shouldn't have whatever problem making this adorable apparel.
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I started with a newborn short sleeve onesie. I went to my local Hobby Lobby and purchased 1/4 yard of fabric, everything else I had on mitt. (Note: since I was making my dress for a newborn, 1/4 yard was enough for the length. If you're making a dress for an older kid you may demand to purchase 1/ii grand so you can make information technology longer).
The first thing y'all want to do is wait at your onesie, and decide where you want the waist, or peak of the skirt, to exist. Use a ruler to mensurate from the armpit seam to wherever y'all want the pinnacle of your skirt to be (I went downwards approximately 1.five″ on a newborn onesie). Use a pen to marker the spot, then measure down the exact same amount from the other armpit seam and make a mark on that side likewise.
Side by side, utilise a ruler to line up the marks and draw a line all the way across the front of your onesie connecting the marks under each armpit. Flip the onesie over and depict a line connecting the marks across the back of the onesie as well. You volition now have a line going all the way around the waist of your onesie, and this will be your guide when attaching the skirt to the onesie.
I highly recommend using a Pilot Frixion Ball Erasable Gel Pen. You tin can write on fabric with this pen, and the marks disappear with the rut from an fe.
To figure out how much textile you need for the skirt, lay your onesie flat on the table and measure the width right where you drew your line, from one side seam to the other side seam. (My newborn onesie measured half-dozen″ across). Accept whatever number you get, and multiply it by 4, and this gives yous the amount of material y'all will need to wrap around your onesie. For instance, since my onesie measured vi″ across, I multiplied information technology by 4 and got 24. So I need 24″ of fabric to create the width of my skirt.
The length of the brim is less specific and tin can be adapted to however long or short you want it to be. Where y'all decided to brand the waist line on your onesie will besides determine how long your skirt needs to be. One time you have your waist line fatigued, lay your fabric on acme of the onesie and decide how long yous want information technology to be. Remember to go out extra fabric (at least 1 inch) to create a hem. You'll also lose a little length when yous attach the elastic to the acme border of your fabric every bit well. If you're non sure, leave information technology a niggling longer than what you lot recall you'll need. You lot can always brand a bigger hem or trim it a bit.
Next, brand the bottom hem for your skirt. I folded the edge of my fabric a half inch and ironed information technology. Then folded information technology over over again and ironed again. Then this gave me a one-half inch seam, but since I folded it twice, I used one inch of fabric to create the seam. Now sew your seam. 
At present that yous have your hem sewn on the bottom edge of your fabric, you're going to adhere the rubberband to the peak edge of your fabric. Place the textile face down on your sewing machine, then place the elastic on top of the material, right at the meridian border of your fabric. Put the end of both under the automobile needle and sew a few stitches up and back to adhere the elastic to the fabric just at the corner.
Now you're going to pull on the rubberband and stretch it as you sew it to the brim. Stretching the rubberband while yous adhere it to the skirt is what allows the material to exist gathered and take some stretch once it's attached to the onesie.
Now that your summit and bottom seams are finished, we need to adhere both side edges together. Lay the skirt fabric on a table, right side up, and fold information technology in half. Both sides should be touching now, with the back of the fabric on the outside. Run up your sides together to create the back seam, and there's your skirt.
At present accept your onesie and fold it in half length-wise, so the front of both sleeves are touching. The center of the back of your onesie should be right at the outside border of the fold at present. Make a mark on your brim line correct at the center of the back, so you know where to put your back seam. This way the dorsum seam of the skirt volition run right down the center of the back of the onesie.
Place the onesie on your table with the neck at the bottom of the tabular array (and then the onesie is upside down). At present turn the brim inside out, and slide the onesie inside of the skirt until the pinnacle of the elastic is at the line you drew on your onesie, and pin the skirt in identify. Then your onesie is upside downwardly, but the brim is right side up and inside out.
Sew together right down the middle of the elastic, attaching the brim to the onesie, removing pins as you sew. Flip skirt over and there you lot take it. 
At this bespeak you tin leave information technology every bit information technology is, or you can add an embellishment. I decided to adhere ribbon across the front end of the dress, plow the ribbon over at each end and stitch. Then hand adhere with needle and thread at each end, then evenly space out two the 3 more spots and attach to the onesie. I then cutting three flowers from a flowered trim I had and hand stitched them to the ribbon. I also fabricated a matching headband.
I but dearest information technology and I can't await to requite it to my friend along with the other things I made for the new baby!
*Annotation: If you choose a chevron or similar patterned fabric, you may need to take extra intendance to line it up properly forth the back seam so the blueprint runs seamlessly around the entire skirt. I recommend folding your fabric in half at the very beginning and lining up your pattern earlier y'all start making whatever cuts. One time you have your material pattern lined up, y'all can make straight cuts across the top and bottom and the pattern volition line up nicely on the back seam.
If you accept any questions permit me know and I'll endeavour to walk y'all through it!
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