Nicole, Dave and Haylee are going to Disney World at the end of the month and Nicole wanted to surprise Haylee with a Frozen Elsa dress. They are going to dinner with the princesses at Epcot and Nicole wanted Haylee to wear an Elsa dress. So after looking online and in the stores she couldn't find anything within her price range so she decided I could make one. What do I look like, a seamstress? Since the majority of the stores, including Disney, are sold out of items from the movie, what you can find on Amazon or eBay are very expensive.
So we made a trip to the fabric store and got the material, some ribbon and snowflake buttons. The store didn't have the snowflake material for the cape since it is out of season so we got something else. Of course, I don't have a pattern so I will be winging this as I go. What is it with Nicole and wanting me to make things for her without a pattern. She did find something on Pinterest that I will use as a guide.
For the top of the dress Nicole had bought some white shirts at the consignment shop; however, I didn't like them. I did like the sleeves on one of the tops. I wanted to use a leotard as it's tighter fitting than a top. What I did first was to take the sleeves off the leotard and take the sleeves off the top. Then I put the top sleeves on the leotard. The below shows one sleeve done, the other side still has the leotard sleeve on it.
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| The finished sleeves. |
I had some brown paper leftover from Christmas so I decided to use that as a pattern. I had taken Haylee's measurements to figure out how wide to make it and the length.
But I ended up making a huge mistake. I made the pattern fine but dumb me folded the pattern in half so after I sewed the front and back together I realized it wasn't wide enough. Of course, I didn't have enough fabric to do a redo so I had to go back to the fabric store and get some more material. Luckily, I had taken pictures of the material that we picked at the store so I knew what I needed to get.
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| After I sewed on the leotard to the bottom of the dress. |
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| After I sewed on the ribbon and the cape. |
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| The back with the cape. |
We decided that we wanted to sew the snowflakes around the neck line instead of on the ribbon since they blended in with the ribbon as they were both silver.
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| The completed dress, the front view. |
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| The back view. |
Parts of this dress was difficult to make and I'm not sure if I would ever do it again. The cape was the most difficult part as it wouldn't lay right and it was hard to sew. But it's done and I like how it turned out. I can't wait to see Haylee's reaction when she sees it for the first time at Disney World.
I hope you like the dress Princess Haylee, I mean Queen Elsa!
