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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