Easter Flower Onesie Dress Tutorial

Today I'm guest posting over at Kiki Creates' All About Easter Event! Be sure to go over and check out my post and everything else she has going on for the event, too! Such cute ideas!


If you're visiting from Kiki Creates, welcome!

Ready to see how to make my Sweet Easter Flower Onesie Dress?

I mixed two fabulous sewing tutorials to create this dress. 

Summer Onesie Tutorial from Running With Scissors

and

 Target Flower Pillow Tutorial from I Create It

I couldn't wait to try either one of those tutorials and I'm excited that they both worked for this dress!

Step 1: Gather materials.

• Onesie of a desired size. The tutorial is for a 6-9 month sized onesie. 
• 1/4 yard of fabric for the skirt part (and sleeves if you want). 
• Less than 1/8 yards of fabric for the flowers (3 different colors)
• ric rac or other embellishment for flower stems and hem of the dress
• matching thread (I used white on all flowers.) and pins
• water soluble pen
• circle template (a paint bottle worked for me)

Step 2: Make the dress.
Follow the directions on the Summer Onesie Tutorial to make the dress. She has instructions on how to make that sweet headband, and how to put the bird on, but I just used the dress directions. I wanted to add sleeves to mine, but ran out of time. It looked darling without them, but I love the look of them, too. I also did not add a strip to my skirt and instead sewed ric rac to the bottom hem of the dress. Embellish it how you want!

After I had the dress part made, I sewed matching ric rac to the bottom hem of the dress.

Step 2: Sew on Flowers

Once your dress is made, add the flower embellishments. Sew on the ric rac stems first.

Then use the  Target Flower Pillow Tutorial to sew on your flowers. 

First find a good item to trace circles with. My paint bottle seemed to be the perfect size. Use a water soluble pen to trace your circles above the stems. When drawing the circles for the flowers, be sure that some of the stem will get sewn under the flower. 

I tried one flower with the tube of fabric like the tutorial suggests, but it was a lot of work because the tubes were so tiny. I also thought the slightly frayed look might be cute, so I tried using just a strip of fabric.  

You can see in the picture above that the strip is about 1.5 in. wide and is folded in half. I'm not sure how long the strips were. I just cut the strip from a 45" wide fabric bolt and used the strip until I didn't need any more and cut the excess off when ready. 

As you sew, fold the strip over  towards the middle of the circle each time you get to the edge to stay within the circle. (Be sure to read the Target pillow tutorial for this step. She has great detailed instructions!)

After I finished each flower I sewed straight across the flower several times in different directions just to catch all those frayed edges and get the flowers to lay a little flatter. This step is probably optional, but I liked the way it made them look. 

If you want, add a sweet tag. I sewed this to the front and back of the backside of the onesie. 

Done!

To make the clip above, follow the steps to make the flower, but sew it onto a piece of felt, cut the felt out. Then cut out a leaf shape, sew it to felt and hot glue it to the back of the flower. Hot glue on an alligator clip to the back and you can clip it to any headband you want!

 Flower clip up close. 

Your sweet girl can wear it as shown or with the leaf more to the side. 

Sweetie.

Big thanks to my friend Rachel for volunteering her daughter, Adia, to be my model!

Enjoy! And thanks for reading!