DIY Frozen Anna Dress cosjj.com

 

Well my sweet little "A" is going to be 7! And well Frozen is her favourite movie right now along with millions of other children, it is really hard to find Frozen dress up clothes. Disney store is sold out or only has little sizes.

I cut open the skirt to re-size it

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With some heat n bond iron on adhesive I attached the seam back together.

I re-sized the skirt to be a little bit bigger then the bottom of the shirt, both are stretchy material!

I pinned the top and skirt together and pinned a ribbon around to see what it was going to look like. Now I could have left it as a skirt and top which would have been cute and easy!! But she really wanted a dress and she also wouldn't let me cut any length off. Can you say DIVA...but it's her choice, she is going to be wearing it not me!! She also tried it on with jeans and long sleeve shirt underneath. So it will fit big.

If attaching the two pieces together then while everything is pinned, turn outfit inside out. Before sewing I used this much heat-n-bond on the front, back and both sides (I did cut off some length of the tank top so that the skirt would fit higher up). I just used this so that it wouldn't move around so much after I had my seams lined up.

Then just do a basic line stitch...I think that's what it is called. I honestly YouTube how to sew a sturdy stitch and watched 2 videos. I'll post a link to which videos I watched at bottom of this post.
It doesn't have to look pretty or professional because you are just going to be covering it up with a ribbon. So even if you see the stitching on the other side of the dress don't worry!!
For the design on the front of Anna's dress I used iron on patches, I was going to use felt and fabric glue it on but I want to be able to wash it (since she will probably be living in it) and I have no idea how well felt holds up if it gets wet.

Husbands are great for this part!! :)

After everything was all ironed on, measure out how much ribbon you will need to use. I put this on loose so that the waist didn't get any tighter and then it would be harder to put on.

TAH-DA! She loves this dress to pieces and is more proud to wear it then all her other costumes. Now because of the material and the length of the dress she couldn't walk very fast in it, so I had to put a slit in it for more movement.

The Hubby made some extra flowers out of the material and I added them to the bottom of the dress in random places. Since I'm such an amazing photographer (NOT) I never noticed that I captured my lovely socks in the pic. LOL!

Letting her play in it before deciding to add those extra flowers...Hope you enjoy this post, have fun! Now do you wanna build a snowman?
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Sleeping Beauty Tutu Dress Tutorial: No-Sew Disney Aurora Dress

Are you ready to learn how to make this Sleeping Beauty Tutu Dress? In the spirit of visiting Disneyland for the first time EVER this week, I thought we’d kick off a fun tutorial (possibly series if people are interested) showing how to make different Disney princess dresses for less than $10.

While writing this post I realized I haven’t done a tutorial in quite a while. What can I say, I’m not a big crafter. Which means if you see a tutorial on my blog that means it’s freakishly simple (because if it’s too hard I’d rather just tell you where to buy it), and super cheap. I did a simple tutu dress tutorial years ago and this kind of builds on that adding to them and making them themed like different princesses. Since Disneyland is home to Princess Aurora’s castle I thought we’d start with her.
Sleeping Beauty Tutu Dress
Back in the day I made tutus all the time, so I had a bunch of extra tulle laying around, but I still went out and bought some more since she’s grown a couple feet since the last time I made one of these, and this being a full-length ball-gown style, I needed to have lots of tulle.

If you have a princess in your home who loves to dress up, and don’t want to drop a ton of money on the fancy costumes, this is another cute alternative that you can whip up in less than an hour.
You don’t need much for your no-sew Sleeping Beauty tutu dress.

Materials:
Pink tulle the 6in X 25yd rolls make it really easy.
I try to get them on sale for $2.50/roll You’ll need about 4 to get it as thick and long as my daughter’s.
White tulle
Here’s an assortment of tulle colors.*
Crocheted headband (or tutu top) 6-10in wide
You can find some here.
Scissors to cut the tulle
Ribbon for the straps
Clear small rubber bands for tying the ends together
No-sew Sleeping Beauty tutu dress tutorial:
Measure your princess from him to feet. Cut all of your tulle to twice that length. For my daughter this was 16.5in so I cut the tulle 33in long.
Fold a piece of tulle in half then grab the bottom of the crocheted top and push the tulle loop through.

Grab the two ends of the tulle and pull them through the loop, making a slip knot.

Continue all the way around until you achieve your desired fullness.

Measure your little girl around her shoulders and cut strips of tulle to be 2Xs that length. Find where you want the center of the front of the dress to be and slip the white tulle halfway through the font of the crocheted top.I used my rubber bands to keep the ends together and didn’t tie it in a bow until it was on my daughter (when she took it off she was able to keep the bow in tact so she can easily slide it on or off later.

Cut more white tulle at just under half the length of your tutu. This will be the white part of Aurora’s dress. Tie these sections on the same way you tied the pink tulle. I tied about 4-5 strips on all the way around, then connected the ends together at the bottom with clear rubber bands.







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