Callie Wrap Dress Sew Along Day 5 - Seamingly Smitten

Callie Wrap Dress sewing pattern Sew Along Day 

Day 5 - Hemming the armholes OR adding armbands, hemming the skirt, finishing your dress!

Watch our VIDEO HERE and subscribe to our channel for new videos and sew alongs!

I am so excited about our Callie Wrap Dress sewing pattern SEW ALONG! Thank you so much to our fabulous sponsor, Evelyn Lee, of Seweird Fabrics!! She has so graciously sponsored the sew along and is giving away one $25 store credit to her shop! $25 of fabric!! Yes, please!! Go ahead and check out her fabrics to plan out all the beauties you would get if you win!!


Each day we will do a few steps and by Friday you will have a finished dress to wear out next weekend! Can you believe it? Yes!! It's that simple! Instead of worrying about finding all the time to print, cut fabric, sew, hem...we are going to split up all that work so you can do this in just 20 minutes a day!

Here's the plan:

Monday: Print your pattern, assemble pattern, cut your size  (Blog HERE and Video HERE)

Tuesday: Cut out your fabric (Blog HERE / Video HERE)

Wednesday: Sew shoulders, band or hem neckline, attach sleeves if adding them, sew side seams (Blog HERE / Video HERE)

Thursday: finish up bodice if needed, then attach the circle skirt (Blog HERE or Video HERE)

Friday: hem sleeves and circle skirt and you're done!! (Video HERE)

Day 5

1. Hem the armholes by folding under a 1/2 inch hem. Sew with a 3/8 inch seam allowance. 

OR 

Cut sleeve bands to attach to your sleeves. Measure each armhole, multiply by .8 then add 1/2 inch. That is the measurement you need. Cut TWO strips 2 inches tall by that width.

Fold each strip right sides together and sew along the short 2 inch side. Now it is a loop.

Fold each in half with wrong sides together, making each a 1 inch tall loop. 

Pin the raw edges of the armhole band to the dress' armhole. Sew. Flip and press with an iron. 

2. Hem the circle skirt by folding up 1/2 an inch, then sew using a 3/8 inch seam allowance. 

3. Pres well. 

You're done!!

Try it on and come share a picture in our facebook group!! We have 2 giveaways going on!! Come check it out and enter to win!

Callie Wrap Dress sewing pattern Sew Along Day 4

Callie Wrap Dress sewing pattern Sew Along Day 

Day 4 - Attaching the circle skirt to the bodice

Watch our VIDEO HERE and subscribe to our channel for new videos and sew alongs!

I am so excited about our Callie Wrap Dress sewing pattern SEW ALONG! Thank you so much to our fabulous sponsor, Evelyn Lee, of Seweird Fabrics!! She has so graciously sponsored the sew along and is giving away one $25 store credit to her shop! $25 of fabric!! Yes, please!! Go ahead and check out her fabrics to plan out all the beauties you would get if you win!!


Each day we will do a few steps and by Friday you will have a finished dress to wear out next weekend! Can you believe it? Yes!! It's that simple! Instead of worrying about finding all the time to print, cut fabric, sew, hem...we are going to split up all that work so you can do this in just 20 minutes a day!

Here's the plan:

Monday: Print your pattern, assemble pattern, cut your size  (Blog HERE and Video HERE)

Tuesday: Cut out your fabric (Blog HERE / Video HERE)

Wednesday: Sew shoulders, band or hem neckline, attach sleeves if adding them, sew side seams (Blog HERE / Video HERE)

Thursday: finish up bodice if needed, then attach the circle skirt

Friday: hem sleeves and circle skirt and you're done!!

Day 4

1. Find the center front, back and sides of your bodice and place a pin at each of these spots. Do the same for your skirt. 

2. Turn your bodice right side up. Turn your skirt inside out and upside down. 

3. Insert the bodice into the skirt, matching the bottom edge of the bodice to the skirt's waist. Match up the pins evenly to pin the skirt evenly around the bodice.

4. Sew around your bodice using a 3/8 inch seam allowance. 

5. To add elastic at the waist: wrap a piece of 3/8 inch elastic around your waist snugly. Trim to that length. Overlap the edges 1/4 inch and zig-zag the ends to secure in a loop.

6. Quarter the elastic loop into 4 equal sections and place a pin at each place. Repeat for the seam of the bodice/skirt waist where you attached them.

7. Match up the pins of the elastic to the pins of the skirt and pin the elastic loop to the seam allowance of the bodice/skirt waist. 

8. Sew around the seam allowance / on top of the elastic to attach the elastic.

Turn right side out and check your work! Try it on and see how it fits! 

See you back here tomorrow for hemming the sleeves and the circle skirt. If you left it sleeveless you can hem the armhole or band the sleeves. 

Callie Wrap Dress pattern Sew Along Day 3

Callie Wrap Dress sewing pattern Sew Along Day 

Day 3 - Assembling the bodice of the wrap dress
(attaching sleeves, neckband and sewing side seams)

Watch our VIDEO HERE and subscribe to our channel for new videos and sew alongs!

I am so excited about our Callie Wrap Dress sewing pattern SEW ALONG! Thank you so much to our fabulous sponsor, Evelyn Lee, of Seweird Fabrics!! She has so graciously sponsored the sew along and is giving away one $25 store credit to her shop! $25 of fabric!! Yes, please!! Go ahead and check out her fabrics to plan out all the beauties you would get if you win!!

Want to join the sew along?

Each day we will do a few steps and by Friday you will have a finished dress to wear out next weekend! Can you believe it? Yes!! It's that simple! Instead of worrying about finding all the time to print, cut fabric, sew, hem...we are going to split up all that work so you can do this in just 20 minutes a day!

Here's the plan:

Monday: Print your pattern, assemble pattern, cut your size  (Blog HERE and Video HERE)

Tuesday: Cut out your fabric (Blog HERE / Video HERE)

Wednesday: Sew shoulders, band or hem neckline, attach sleeves if adding them, sew side seams (Blog HERE and Video HERE)

Thursday: finish up bodice if needed, then attach the circle skirt (Blog HERE and Video HERE)

Friday: hem sleeves and circle skirt and you're done!!

Day 3

1. Lay your back bodice right sides up. 

2. Lay your front bodices right sides together on your back bodice, matching the bottom edges, side edges and shoulders. If you are adding sleeves pin along the shoulder edges only. If you are NOT adding sleeves, pin along the shoulder and side seams. Sew.

3. Find the center of each sleeve, pin center of sleeve to the shoulder seam with right sides together. Continue pinning each sleeve along the armhole, pin, then sew.

4. Iron your neckband in half with WRONG sides together. Spread out the neckline and lay the neckband right sides together along your neckline, with raw edges matching. Pin. Sew.

5. Press neckband with an iron and press seam allowances under. Topstitch using a 1/8 inch seam allowance. Press again with iron.

6. Lay bodice right sides together. Pin from your sleeve's edge down the side edges. Sew.

7. You are done for today!

Callie Wrap Dress sewing pattern SEW ALONG DAY 2

Callie Wrap Dress sewing pattern Sew Along Day 2

Day 2 - Cutting out your fabric pattern pieces

Watch our VIDEO HERE and subscribe to our channel for new videos and sew alongs!

I am so excited about our Callie Wrap Dress sewing pattern SEW ALONG! Thank you so much to our fabulous sponsor, Evelyn Lee, of Seweird Fabrics!! She has so graciously sponsored the sew along and is giving away one $25 store credit to her shop! $25 of fabric!! Yes, please!! Go ahead and check out her fabrics to plan out all the beauties you would get if you win!!

Want to join the sew along?

Each day we will do a few steps and by Friday you will have a finished dress to wear out next weekend! Can you believe it? Yes!! It's that simple! Instead of worrying about finding all the time to print, cut fabric, sew, hem...we are going to split up all that work so you can do this in just 20 minutes a day!

Here's the plan:

Monday: Print your pattern, assemble pattern, cut your size  (Blog and Video HERE)

Tuesday: Cut out your fabric 

Wednesday: Sew shoulders, band or hem neckline, attach sleeves if adding them, sew side seams

Thursday: finish up bodice if needed, then attach the circle skirt

Friday: hem sleeves and circle skirt and you're done!!

Post a finished picture to our fb group by Wednesday, 7/24 to be entered to WIN a $25 store credit to Seweird Fabrics from Evelyn Lee (one winner) and 3 free Seamingly Smitten sewing patterns (3 winners)! I cannot see what you all make!

Day 2

Watch the video HERE or follow along in the pattern to cut out your pattern pieces.

1. Cut out two front bodices / one is in mirror image.

2. Cut out one back bodice.

3. Cut out your sleeves (if using them).

4. Cut out your circle skirt.

5. Cut out your neckband (if using).