Vintage Hearts Romper Tutorial

Here is a tutorial for the Vintage Hearts Romper.

For the pattern pieces, please follow this link: Vintage Heart Romper Pattern Pieces. You will need to make sure your printer is set at 100% or Actual Size, don't 'shrink to fit' or it will be too small.

Size: 1-2 years

Pieces:

Main Fabric

1 x Front Pants Piece

1 x Back Pants Piece with ruffle placement marks

2 x Bib Piece [I added about 1 ½ inches to the length of the bib to suit my daughter.]

2 x Straps 3” x 18”

1 x Ruffles 3.5” x 44” [for full ruffles] or 34” for looser ruffles

Contrast/Lining Fabric

1 x Front Pants Piece

1 x Back Pants Piece

2 x Ruffles 3.5” x 44” [for full ruffles] or 34” for looser ruffles

1 x Bib Ruffle 2” x 31”

Interfacing

2x Front Pants Facing

2x Back Pants Facing

Lace [optional]

6mm Elastic [1 x 8”, 2 x 9-10”]

Plastic Snaps or desired fastenings

Cutting

Cut all your pieces out. You can get all the pieces cut out from 1m [½ of main, ½ of contrast/lining] with a little bit of fiddling and folding.

Straps

Fold in half, stitch across one end and up the length. Turn and press. Top stitch [optional].

Ruffles

Either hem, pinking shear or sew lace to the bottom edge of the ruffles.

Run gathering threads along ruffle and gather to desired fullness. 44” makes a very tight full ruffle, 34” is a loose light ruffle.

Bib Ruffle [Optional]

Fold in half so long ends are together and run gathering stitches along raw edge.

Note: I gather my ruffles on my sewing machine by setting my stitch length to 5 and my tension to 9.

Bib

Pin lace or bib ruffle inwards to one of the front bib pieces and stitch.

Right sides together, stitch the two bib pieces together leaving the bottom open.

Clip and notch, turn out and press. Top stitch [optional].

With Lace

With Bib Ruffle

Interfacing

Iron interfacing facings to wrong side of material of back pants and front pants.

Pants

Attach lowest ruffle to back pants piece. Pin it to the ruffle placement marks upside down [right sides together] and stitch.

Flip ruffle down into position and top stitch. Remove gathering threads. Repeat with middle ruffle.

Sew crotches of front and back pants outer pieces together. 

Sew crotches of lining pieces together, leaving a 1.5-2” turning hole in the centre.

Pin bib and lining to front waist, right sides together.

Pin top ruffle, straps, and lining to the back waist. Ruffle should be attached to where the interfacing pieces end not the length of the waist band.

Showing the order to pin before pinning the lining over the top.

Showing the order to pin, back pants, top ruffle, straps and then the lining.

Stitch all around the pants pieces, right sides together using a min 1/4” seam.

Attach back elastic [8”] on the seam allowance. It shouldn't overlap the interfaced parts of the fabric.

Attach leg elastic on the seam allowance. Again it shouldn't overlap the interfaced parts of the fabric.

Sew around all edges, attach elastic to seam allowance and then turn out through hole left in the crotch.

Clip corners and curves. Turn right way out.

Pin and stitch back elastic casing through all layers including top ruffle-except the straps , being careful not to catch the elastic in the seam.

Pin and stitch leg elastic casings, being careful not to catch the elastic in the seam.

Attach snaps to bib and straps, the back and front facings [2-3 sets per side].

Optional: tie a knot or attach a snap on the crossover of the straps to help hold them steady.

And you are done!