Beach Cover Up | Terry Towelling Dress - Beginner Friendly Sewing Tutorial

This vintage inspired beach towel wrap dress is the perfect summer piece – and it's made from a beach towel! 🌞🧵

In this beginner-friendly sewing tutorial, I’ll show you step by step how to turn a simple beach towel (approx. 1m x 1.5 m) into a stylish towel dress – perfect for the beach, pool, or lounging around in summer. (You can of course use 2 smaller towels or buy about 1 .8m of towel fabric) - please always make sure you prewash the fabric.

Remember to mirror the front piece if you don't cut the fabric on fold!

And here's the twist: we’re using a lot of bias tape!
So by the end of this video, you’ll basically be a bias tape pro 😄

I’m teaching you everything as a professional seamstress, and this project is totally beginner-friendly – just your towel, bias tape, and a bit of summer sewing fun!

Here is everything you need:
Approx. 1.8m of towel fabric (70in) or a beach towel (approx. 1m x 1.5 m 39in x 59in or bigger)
Approx. 4m (157in) of bias tape (that’s enough for all sizes so you don’t need to squeeze) + approx. a minimum of 0.6m (24in) more per strap to tie in the back. A total of 5m (197in) should be enough for most sizes if you are making the bigger sizes and/or want your straps extra long get a little more to comfortably have enough…

If you are not using the finished edge of the towel for a finished seam at the bottom, overlock/zigzag the edge, fold your preferred seam allowance up and sew along the edge.

The pattern is available on my website:
https://www.sundaycafe.ch/shop

Let me know if you have any questions – and if you make your own towel dress, I’d love to see it!
You can tag me on Instagram: @sewingosunday
or on TikTok: @sewingonsunday

With love,
Lea
Sewing on Sunday

Transcript
00:03 welcome
01:00 the pattern
01:31 cutting the fabric
03:11 making bias tape skip if you bought pre-made
05:03 sewing bias tape together
06:22 sewing the darts
08:04 sew the shoulders together
09:52 the side seam
13:40 make the straps Option 1
17:22 make the straps Option 2
19:01 make the straps Option 3
19:10 add the bias tape to the dress
23:18 add the bias tape to the armholes
27:31 the finished dress

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