The Pierrot Tunic features a lovely gathered neckline, swingy ease and comfortable fit and looks fantastic with jeans or leggings! The elastic neckline and sleeves can be taken out as your child grows. Pierrot can be sewn entirely with a sewing machine; no serger necessary. Instructions are also included to extend the pattern if you would like to create a Pierrot dress or longer tunic.
This sewing pattern is a digital PDF sewing pattern that you purchase, download, and print at home. The 32-page eBook sewing pattern includes detailed step by step instructions, color photographs, printable instruction summary sheet and full-sized pattern pieces for NINE sizes (wow!) for babies and children. Seam allowances are included on all pattern pieces.
The digital eBook including pattern and instructions will be sent to your Paypal email address (please do not request that we forward to a different address. Thanks!) via instant download link as soon as payment is received.
SIZES INCLUDED
0-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-12 months, 12-18 months, 18-24 months, 2T, 3T, 4T, 5T*
*The 5T tunic can be easily lengthened to make a size 6 or 7 (maybe even 8??). Instructions for lengthening the pattern are included, but because we have not tested these sizes, please be aware that you will need to determine how much length to add based on other well-fitting garments in your child’s wardrobe.
$10 – Pierrot Tunic Sewing Pattern PDF
{Please read my purchasing/printing instructions first if you have never purchased an instant download PDF pattern before. Thanks!}
NOTE: This sewing pattern is intended for personal use only. A handmade sellers license for Pierrot is also available from the pattern page. For more information on the licenses and seller’s program, please visit the Seller’s Program page. If you purchase the sewing pattern without a license, please do not sell Pierrot Tunics or use the pattern for profit. Non-profit use for charity is usually fine, but please contact me first to request permission.
DIFFICULTY
This tunic is a “confident beginner” project. I would recommend this project to someone who knows how to sew a straight line backward and forward and can keep an even seam allowance on a curve. The following skills are also recommended: gathering, inserting elastic into a waistband, and hemming. Clear instructions are given for all of the steps, however, so a beginner who has confidence could definitely tackle this. I am always happy to assist you by answering questions via email if you should run across anything that is giving you trouble!
SERGER OR SEWING MACHINE?
Pierrot can be completed entirely without a serger. The ruffle edge at the neckline can be zigzag stitched (shown below left) or finished with a serger (shown below right); both take approximately the same time.
MATERIALS
• Woven fabric such as shirting, cotton voile, cotton lawn, poplin, chambray, lightweight seersucker, baby wale cord, linen, flannel, or quilting cotton (see yardage chart below for amount)
• Elastic (1/4″ or 3/8″ wide, for neckline)
• Optional: prepackaged 1/2″ single-fold bias tape (or instructions for cutting your own bias tape included in pattern)
YARDAGE
(of 44” wide fabric; you’ll need less if your fabric is 54” or 60” wide)
Click here for size chart
What’s the difference between bias and straight of grain?
Cutting this tunic on the bias will give you a more “swingy” fit, but it can also be cut on the straight of grain to save fabric (I personally think it looks great either way). In the picture below, the tunic on the left was cut on the bias, and the tunic on the right was cut on the straight of grain.
INSTANT DOWNLOAD
This 32 page PDF becomes available to you instantly via a download link as soon as payment is received* (Click on teeny tiny “Continue to download” link after making payment. Just in case you miss that, another link is automatically sent to your Paypal email address, but please make sure your Paypal email is up-to-date or you risk not getting it!). A chart is provided on the first page of the file so that you can save paper and ink by printing just the pattern sheets you need.
*e-Check payments take roughly a week to process, so your pattern will not be sent instantly if you use e-Check. The pattern will be sent to you automatically as soon as your payment clears.
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Friday Photos
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BUY YOUR PIERROT TUNIC SEWING PATTERN NOW!*
$10
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Share your photos: I can’t wait to see all of the cute little Pierrots you guys make! Please add your pictures to the Rae Made Me Do It or Pierrot Sewing Pattern photo pools so we can all see what you’ve made!
Thanks for your patience! As usual, please be patient with me as there are bound to be glitches at first. Please email me if there are any issues and we’ll get them worked out!
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I’ve been waiting for this! So exciting!
YEA! Thank you sooo much. I have been hoping that you would do this! Thanks.
YEY! I don’t even have a little girl but I just bought it anyway! There’s a few more little girls in my life and I have always loved this dress! And who knows, maybe I’ll have a daughter one day
rae, stop it! you are too amazing! really just stop, heheeh
So darned cute! You’re killing me with the small sizes! I want this and Charlie in like a 10-12:)
I’m buying it, I’m buying it !!!!!! now now now !!! zou, under the foot of my machine !!!
Thanks for this Rae! Very escited to make a couple this weekend
Been excitedly waiting for this!!! Cannot wait to try it out
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I’m glad I’m not the only daughter-less reader who bought it anyway
I’ve got a niece — she must need one.
How long do you suspect it might take a “confident beginner” (who still does silly things like cut the fabric on the wrong side or continue to stitch a long seam even after the bobbin thread has run out) to make this dress?
Hi Lak:
Haha, you’re too funny. So the nice thing about this pattern is that all the pieces are symmetric (so no problems cutting on the wrong side like you might have with a pant)…the stitching with no thread thing might be a bit of an issue, but I’d give yourself 4-5 hours and you’ll have a top.
LOVE this top! I made my first this weekend. Only about the third thing I’ve ever sewn– your instructions were great for a beginner!
Here is my top: http://candacefeazell.blogspot.com/2011/10/lsu-pierrot-top.html
Thanks for the pattern!
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Yay! I just bought this. I first found your blog when my daughter was a newborn. Now, nineteen months later, I’m set to make her a pierrot
Hello, I have “pinned” the Pierrot dress on Pinterest several months ago and and it was love at first sight ! So I was checking back from time to time expecting the pattern and there it is ! (Should have checked earlier, it’s been a month !) I am very happy and just wanted to say so before I jump to the purchasing page ! Thanks ! (Dorothee from France)
Oh yay! Thanks Dorothee!!!
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Rae! Rae! I made one!
It’s soooo cute, I just love it! I’ll link you to it later, I cut up a shirt from the op shop and it came out perfffect {even though I had to cut the scraps up to make the bias and that was a bit time-consuming and less than perfect} it all came together well in the end!
Even hubby LOVES it.
Thank you Rae
YAY!!!
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I made this for my 6 years old, it was 5T but fits her great! I just added 1” on the bottom. But funny thing was, that at the fabric store I couldn’t remember how much fabric I needed to cut it on the bias, so I thought 1,5 yrds should be enough… and came home to realize I needed 2,5! My fabric was 46” wide. But I WAS ABLE TO cut it on the bias in size 5T!! Neckline strip had to be in two parts but it was no problem! I was sooo happy! And so is my daughter
Hopefully this helps somebody!
oh good to know Pepella! I tried to make the yardage generous enough to work with all types of prints, but I’m glad to know you could figure it out with 1.5 yards!!
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