Shortening a Child’s Princess Dress Without Cutting It

Have the child put on the too-long dress.

Fold the fabric inwards to the desired length.

To secure the fabric, place a sewing pin longways into the folded fabric.

Lay the dress flat on a neat, stable surface like a table.

Fold each fabric layer to identical lengths.

After it's the same length, you need to insert sewing pins in the middle or at the edge of the folded fabric, like in the previous step.

For the next side (red arrow), fold it inwards to match the length of the original pinned fabric (orange arrow).

Insert sewing pins like in Steps 2 and 3.

Grab a sewing needle and a thread that matches the color of your fabric.

Measure the thread to be the same length as the original pinned fabric, then cut the thread.

Insert one end of the thread into the eye of the needle.

Leave some length at the top for the next step.

Thread the needle and knot the thread.

Insert the needle into the fabric following this motion: down, up, down, up, slight pull out. This creates a circle with the thread.

Before the circle ends, you need to pass the needle through the circle, then down into the fabric.

You need to pull the thread and needle through all the way.

Next, you take the needle, insert into the fabric half way then go up, and pull the needle and thread through a little bit.

You need to repeat until two-thirds of thread is left or until you get to the start again.

When there is 2/3 of thread left in the needle, repeat Step 8.

After securing it, you need to cut the thread from the needle, closest to where the needle is.

For the rest of the fabric or other fabrics, you need to repeat Steps 6-10.

After you removed the sewing pins, you are finished!