Nightgown

I stumbled across this tutorial and thought it would make a perfect nightgown. I love it and hope to make a dress out of the tutorial at some point, but I was in greater need of a nightgown at the time, so that was what was on my brain when I saw it.

I am a girl of average height, but I am pretty thin. I have always had a hard time finding nightgowns that fit. They are all super wide on me (even the smalls and extra smalls). They always fall right around mid-thigh, but I like my nightgowns to go to my knee. And most of the summery ones don't have sleeves, which is a must for me.

The tutorial for this dress/nightgown say to trace a shirt that fits to make the top, then to make a tube out of your fabric for the bottom, then attach the two. I thought and thought about how to make the top and how to add sleeves that would be comfortable (I'm still kind of new at sleeves even though I have been sewing forever). I finally came up with the idea to use a knit for the top, as I could make the shoulder wide enough to make a sleeve without having to add a separate sleeve (I'm sure I could have done this with a cotton, too, but the knit made more sense to me). I traced one of my undershirts onto a huge tank top (that I bought for the purpose of using for the fabric, not for wearing), cut it out, then followed the rest of the directions in the tutorial.

This is what I came up with:


I love it! It is so comfortable. I think using the knit on the top was the perfect idea for a nightgown. The bottom is big enough that I can wear it 26 weeks pregnant, and hopefully will still fit in it by the end of my pregnancy. It is long enough that I feel comfortable wearing it around the house all day if I don't feel like getting dressed, but cool enough that I don't melt in the humid summer heat.