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Free pattern: Peasant dress for toddler and little girls

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Jamie from Scattered Thoughts of a Crafty Mom shares a free pattern and tutorial for making peasant dress in toddler and little girl sizes.  This is such a cute and versatile style dress for little girls.  No wonder they’re so popular!  And the possibilities for embellishments or variations are endless.

With this free girl’s peasant dress pattern, you can learn how to create a Peasant Dress. This free printable pdf dress design and tutorial comes in sizes ranging from 12 months to 14 years old, with both long and short sleeve choices.

You can mix and match prints on the sleeve and body, shorten it to a tunic or top length, add a ruffle at the bottom, and more.  The pattern is available in a 12/18 month, 2T/3T, and 4/7.   Get the pattern and tutorial.

 

Many young ladies abandoned standard fashion in the late 1960s and early 1970s in favor of more quirky, creative looks. The peasant appearance was one such style: a sort of dress that was an offshoot of the clothes worn by the European lower classes for generations. Long and flowing peasant skirts and dresses were popular. The Peasant Dresses were simple and functional. Women in the lowest strata of society wore shapeless dresses at first.

My mother always made sure we had beautiful handmade dresses to wear during the summer vacations, and basic dresses like this peasant dress pattern and this Jersey knit dress were staples.

 

[photo from Scattered Thoughts of a Crafty Mom]

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  2. Thank you for such an easy tutorial! I love this pattern and it fits my 2.5 year old perfectly. The only alteration I made was to sew a thin strip of elastic inside the dress around the waist line to give it a more fitted effect 🙂

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  5. Super Cute!!
    I love doing Peasant Dresses Myself…
    I do not use patterns and most of my work Is done by Handstitching, I do this because I feel it Brings more of a True Esscence of the Peasant Style!!
    Super nice Website, Love it!!

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Head over to Melly Sews to learn how to sew on velvet fabric. 

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