Guest Author - Susan Kramer

This is an easy method to attach lace to the finished side of skirt hems of your doll dresses.

1. The first step is to determine how long the finished skirt is to be.

2. Then measure the width of lace that will show after being sewn on.

3. The finished skirt length needs to include the material and lace combination.

4. Allow enough of the skirt material to make a hem by folding up one half inch twice and blind stitching.

5. To attach lace to skirt hem, pin top edge of lace to finished side of skirt at hemline and sew in place as in photo.

By making a hem in the material first you see a nice finish on the underside of the skirt if the skirt gets turned up a bit in playing. A hem in the material also gives a better drape to the finished skirt.

Click here for a full view of a finished dress with lace sewn on finished side of skirt at hem. Have fun sewing lace to your doll dresses - assuring a dressy finish!

Charity Note:
I'd like to suggest that if you spend time making doll clothes, anyway, that you collect a few dolls from friends and neighbors and sew a wardrobe or a complete outfit for each doll. Then donate the doll in the completed outfit to a charity that distributes used dolls and toys to kids that otherwise would not have any.

When I was a little girl, nothing brightened up my face more than my mother making me a new outfit for my doll. It was a treat I looked forward to every Christmas morning in those years of early childhood!

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Raggedy Ann dress with lace over hem

Article and photo by Susan Kramer