children's clothing, kids clothing, sewing

For the final touch

A matching headscarf!  Now she really looks like a little peasant.

You can’t really get a simpler accessory than this one.  It’s a right-angled triangle, with the two short sides measuring 15″ each, the long side about 21″, and the bias binding 29″.  Why do I use inches in lots of my sewing measurements I wonder – I grew up with the metric system, but for some weird reason lots of my sewing is done in imperial measurements.  Although I measure fabric width in centimetres and buy fabric buy the metre.  Very strange.  Anyway, after that little digression, all you do is cut out the triangle with the long edge parallel to the grainline, narrow hem the two short sides, and encase the long side in folded bias binding (or ribbon) and sew it on.  About fifteen minutes all up, tops.