I had bought 4 ladies polo shirts recently thinking that they would make good everyday wear around home. However, like sometimes happens, once I got them home they weren’t quite right for me (freakishly high neck lines for a ladies shirt making my bust look really low – but that is another story). So the shirts sat in my cupboard, never seeing the light of day until a favourite little play dress of ours finally became un-wearable and I saw the opportunity for a conversion and to perhaps feel a little better about the unused shirts.
Here is what I came up with:
Because I used the existing collar, cuffs and hem of the t-shirt, this was an extremely fast project, I think it took me about 15min.
If you would like to see your mini miss in a mini polo dress too, here is what I did:
1. First I lay the old dress down on top of the polo shirt, lining up the shoulders (you could use a slim fitting t-shirt here instead with no problems), I cut around the body section in the shape of the existing dress making sure to leave seam allowance.
2. I lined up the sleeves of the existing dress with the top fold of the polo shirt sleeves and with the cuff. I cut around the sleeves, again leaving seam allowance.
3. Finally, I measured the length that I required for the skirt and cut that from the bottom hem of the shirt, adding seam allowance of course.
I then had something that looked like this:
4. The next bit was simple enough, I sewed the sleeves to the body piece, making sure that I lined up the shoulder seams with the folds in the top of the sleeves.
I did this project on the overlocker/server which is the easiest thing when sewing knits, if you are using your sewing machine I believe you could use a zig zag stitch with success.
5. Then I sewed the side seams together starting at the opening of the sleeve and finishing at the bottom edge of the body piece. Mine looked like this:
6. The next thing I did was to gather the skirt piece so that it was the same distance around as the bottom hem of the body piece. I then sewed the two pieces together and topstitched the seam (although I think the finish would have been better had I not added the topstitching).
7. Done! One 15 min mini polo dress conversion. For an idea of sizing, my daughter is 2 and this was a size 10 ladies polo shirt.
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Awesome idea!
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This is lovely. I’m going to give it a try. I think the top stitching gives it a nice finish. Thanks so much for sharing.
Will do This asap!
Awww.. how cute! You make it look so easy. Thanks for the tutorial.
Oh My Heck! That is the cutest!
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Thank you so much for this tutorial! I have a polo t-shirt from sailing festival in 2011. It was only the second edition so they thought that men’s t-shirts are ok for everyone. I haven’t worn it since, so making a dress for my little girl would be great! My daughter loved her first festival this year so she is fully entitled to wear her own festival dress 😉 I’m going to show the results on my blog at linawsmietanie.blogspot.com
Awesome – will be great to see it sewn up 🙂
Done. You may see it at https://linawsmietanie.blogspot.com/2019/06/dziecieca-sukienka-polo-z-dorosej.html There is a story in (probably broken) English on the bottom of the page 😉
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