How much joy a mother feels when she sees her baby dressed in beautiful clothes, made by hand. 

To be able to sew is interesting, and economically. Interesting - because when you sew, we work hard not only skill but also imagination, ingenuity, taste. 

Economically, because to fulfill children's clothing you can use not only new material but also old clothes out of fashion, which is available in every home. 

This section describes how to build the parts of patterns for children's clothes of different ages, sewing and processing details. 

The choice of style and material 

When choosing a style you must consider the age, gender and the different physical characteristics of the child or young person. 

With each period of child development is changing, and clothing. To year children wear shirts, vests, pants etc. Children at the age from a year to 2 years wear shirts, dresses, trousers, suits that are a little different than the clothing for children under one year of age.

At any age children need to dress in beautiful and comfortable clothes, appropriate size and destination. Beautiful clothes, educates the children about good taste and sense of beauty, clothing is not the size of the carelessness and indifferent attitude. 

Material selection is based on age, gender and purpose of things. For children under one year of age and older use light and soft cotton materials, bright colors in small cell or solid that can be easily erased. This - Batiste, calico, baize, knitted materials, Terry, etc.

For children aged 5 - 6 years, in addition to the above materials, used more expensive materials such as silk, crepe, staple, woolen fabric etc. these fabrics are sewed dresses for girls and for boys - corduroy, denim and etc. 

Clothing adolescents and youth are very diverse in style and purpose, so you can use all commercially available fabric. 

Material for the implementation of children's and youthful clothes can be old, out of fashion clothes. Before to redraw old things, they need to tear out the remaining thread, to be washed and ironed.

Taking measurements 

When you have finished processing the material from which going to sew a new thing, proceed to the taking measurements. Way of measuring is the same for both girls and boys. When taking measurements the child should stand straight, waist paasive lace. 

Remove those same measurements, and here, with the exception of paragraphs 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 15. These measurements are taken from children under the age of 5 - 6 years and older.

When determining the size of children's clothing based take half the measurements of the circumference of the chest and growth. The difference between the two closest sizes is 2 cm depending on the age of the children children's clothing is divided into the following size groups: nursery (under 3 years) - from 26 to 28 size, preschool (4 to 7 years) - 30 to 32 size, school (8 to 13 years) from 34 to 40 size and adolescent (14 to 16) - from 42 to 44 size.