Looking for a playdress pattern

[kris10s]

I am ISO a playdress pattern -- anyone know of a good one? I love simple playdresses ala hanna, LE and LL Bean and I'm hoping to make something similar. Free or for sale, it doesn't matter!

[UltraMother]

KwikSew has some great books with lots of very basic patterns that I use all the time. :)

[OpalsMom]

I have this: http://www.sewbaby.com/big/patterns1_/patterns_11.html
But I really use Kwik Sew -- either a shirt pattern cut short with a rectangle gathered on for a skirt, or my current favorite, which is modified from the raglan shirt pattern by adding a couple inches extra width in the middle of both the front and the back (scientifically achieved by using the space it gives you for a placket, which has No Relationship but was easier than thinking about it), and then swinging the edges out until the resulting width at the bottom is the same as a Hanna playdress. I make an inverse box pleat with the width in front and back, sewing it down a few inches in the front and tacking at in back at the waist. I use a trim assortment from SewBaby for ribbing at the neck and sleeves. Net result, 4 pattern pieces, 7 seams, 1 hem, and the two tacks for the pleats, easy and cute. I particularly like it in flannel. It doesn't look like the knit playdresses, but it has the same sort of "feel" -- feminine but not fussy.

[brown eyed girl]

http://www.sewbaby.com/big/patterns10_/sb-10.html

I've used this one. Found it ran a little big in the dress but small in the bloomers. It sewed quickly, but it can be hard get it "untangled" to put on a coat hanger or for a girl to dress herself because of the way the straps cris-cross. But I did love the dress itself, on her... it was just cute.

[WildOlive]

KS actually has a playdress style pattern:
http://www.kwiksew.com/Cold_Fusion/catalog/Frame_New.cfm

2708 for little girls, 2709 for big girls. :tu