I’ve got a new dress to show you! And surprise! Its none other than the Oliver + S Roller Skate dress making another appearance. This time, its reversible! Prepare for pictures of my little ham, and at the bottom, I’ll include a little tutorial for hemming a reversible tunic/dress.

The Roller Skate Dress pattern is amazing! This is my third garment from this pattern, and I just love how quickly I can whip it up. This dress only took an hour to make!

I think one of the best things about it is that all the seams are enclosed, so there is no need for finishing any of the seams. While its not hard to finish seams, it is time consuming and overlocking eats up a lot of thread. So its a huge bonus that finishing the seams is unneeded.

I’m not sure if I like the blue side or the feather side better! I think I like the feather pattern more, but I like the color blue better on Layla.

This is such a fun dress to make! I’ll be making a few more, but with the collar next time. And I have to tell you again, if you are new to garment sewing and would love a good pattern that you can use over and over, the Roller Skate Dress is exactly what you need! It comes in sizes 6m-12, so a huge range of sizes. Give it a try, for sure!

Hemming Tutorial

To make the hem like mine (so that both front and back are sewn together for a reversible tunic/dress), you’ll need to finish everything on the dress/tunic except for the hem.

Separate the dress so that you can work with just one of the raw edges.

Use a water soluble or disappearing marking tool to mark a line 1″ from the raw edge of the wrong side of the fabric all the way around. I wanted a 1/2″ seam so I marked at 1″. You can change that to your liking.

Once you’ve marked one hem line, repeat the marking on the other hem line.

Fold the raw edge so that it meets the marked line and press the fabric all the way around. Do this with both the inside and outside fabrics.

Line up your dress/tunic, so that the back and side seams meet for both sides of the garment. Pin if desired. Using a edgestitch (1/8″) sew through both sides all the way around the bottom, overlapping beginning stitches by several stitches.

You can then switch over to a 1/4″ foot, and sew around the bottom again.

I hope this mini tutorial was helpful! Let me know if you have any questions. I feel like I’m not the best at explaining things sometimes.

-Meredith