What really makes this headband dress fancy is using a pretty ruffle or neat sewing trim embellishment. This is another idea that comes together in no time and would be a fun birthday party or sleepover craft. The key is using a headband material that's stretchy. Do you know someone that sews? There's a chance she/he has a stash of sewing trims, you only need about 6" for a Barbie dress. Any pretty light weight lacy or shear ruffle, or fringe, would be fine. Actually, as I was looking for a ruffle I came upon this crazy faux fur trim from Ma's stash... I love the way that looks too! Anything fancy:@)
This one is too easy folks:
- Cut the seam off of 2" wide headband, then cut the headband in half. Even up the ends. This gives us two dresses. These headbands usually come in a pack of two at Dollar Tree, so four dresses per project.
- With a needle and thread, sew the trim to the center front of the dress. I only used a few stitches but took them about 1" across the top. Tie off and cut thread.
- Loosely wrap trim around the doll's arms to the back. You want to be able to move the arms and pose the doll as desired.
- Cut trim to length. Sew ruffle to either side of back of dress. ~But, don't overlap. We need the center of the back to be open so the dress still slips up over the doll's hips.
- Dress doll -done๐
- One note: With dressing and undressing the bottom will begin to roll up as most knits do. If you don't want that to happen you can hem the bottom.
I purposely used two different size dolls for the pics, an older more shapely Barbie and a more Skipper size doll. Both do have those God awful rubber legs... Not the easiest to dress, but I don't think anything goes on these dolls too easily. The dress slipped right on my hard plastic doll.
The headband I started with:
My gorgeous inspiration picture from Pinterest:

Make something just for fun and have a happy day๐
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THIS IS BRILLIANT...! You have really been working overtime on your ideas! Hugs, Sandi
ReplyDeleteI had to FB this one...to share with my doll club. Check out... https://www.facebook.com/groups/303969092456 this is our windy city barbie clubs FB place to share ideas and photos. It's a feeder to the actual club, but open to anyone.
ReplyDeleteHugs, Sandi