Prairie Rose dress pattern. Sizes 18M to 6 years. A knee length dress with smocking in front and ties in back.

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1 Prairie Rose dress pattern. Sizes 18M to 6 years. A knee length dress with smocking in front and ties in back. Check out mytreasuredheirlooms.com/prairierose for a full size picture tutorial of this pattern. Size 18M 2T 3T Fabric yards 1 ½ 1 5/8 1 ¾ 1 7/8 2 2 ¼ Elastic in inches Seam allowance is 3/8 except where indicated Cut 2 ties 30 X 2 For dress front cut out a piece of fabric that is 44 by 18M 22 2T T ¼ 6 30 ¾ (Note: all sewing is done right sides together unless otherwise indicated) Pleating and smocking -Pleat the number of rows needed for the smocking. Pull the thread out of the first 15 pleats on both ends. Adjust the rest of the pleats according to the dress front guide, lining up the sides of the fabric with the size 6 (for all sizes) sides of the guide -Smock the front -Block the front To block the front, remove all but the top 2 holding threads, stretch and pin the dress front to an ironing board stretching to fit the front guide. Making sure that the iron does not touch the smocking, steam until it is wet to the touch, leave pinned to the board until smocking is completely dry.

2 -Using front guide mark arm holes with fabric marker directly to fabric. Zig zag along lines and trim close to zig zag without cutting stitching. Front binding -Optional piping. Pin piping so it lines up with top row of pleating. Stitch in place -Using binding, press under ¼ on both long sides of binding -Line up fold of binding with top row of smocking (or piping, if piping was used) open up binding and pin in place (wash away wonder tape works great in place of pins), stitch in the ditch of the binding. Remove remaining holding threads -Set aside Make ties -Fold ties in half right sides together and stitch along the length and ends, turn right side out and press Constructing dress

3 -Sew back sleeve to dress back -Open up binding on dress front, line up top of binding with top of sleeve; sew dress front to front sleeves -(Elastic casing) turn dress back and sleeves under ¼ and press then turn under 3/8 and press -Now sewing just the sleeves and dress back, stitch along the folded edge to make a casing -Thread elastic through casing, securing ends at front shoulder seams -Hand stitch binding or stitch in the ditch making sure that binding is stitched in the back -Attach ties about 1.5 under arms on dress front -On sleeves fold under and press ¼ and 3/8 for casing (unfold for next step) -Sew side seams of sleeve and dress -Refold elastic casing on sleeves and stitch along fold leaving ½ open -Thread elastic through and secure ends together -Stitch opening closed Hem -For hem, turn under ½ and press, and then turn under 3 and press -finish hem with your favorite hemming method

4 Please note that more than likely the front will be longer than the back. Trim the front to match with the back. Follow plate for smocking instructions using colors to match fabric. Do the ribbon row last. That is the row that is marked to do last. Work it over the ribbon as you go. The pink lines show where the smocking is done on the right side and on top of the ribbon. Stitching between should be done in 3 step trellis on the back side. Do one cable at the bottom, hold the ribbon down and pass the thread over up to the row of the same pleat, insert the needle as if to cable again but this time pass the needle to the back, 3 step trellis in the back, bring the needle back to the front, over the ribbon cable at the bottom, bring the ribbon back up and pass to the back again. Check out mytreasuredheirlooms.com/prairierose for a full size picture tutorial of this pattern.

5 Printing and cutting guide There are 17 pages to be printed. Print out pages 6-22 without resizing or scaling the pictures. The squares on each sheet needs to measure 1" both ways. Trim the pattern pieces on the dashed black outer lines. On the corner of each pattern piece is a quarter circle with a letter on it, each corner that needs to be matched up has the same exact letter. Line up the corners so that it forms a circle or half circle. Your pattern should end up looking like the images below. Once the pattern is assembled; each size is color coded for your ease.

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