Wow, I'm loving all the costumes! I really need to start thinking early about Halloween this year.
I took pictures of the pattern my aunt sent me last week. It is SOO cool!!!
And, I've always wanted a dress form, and I found one at a garage sale today!!! My brother and his wife gave me money for doing their taxes last week, so I used that to buy it. I paid $25.
I love vintage aprons so a vintage apron pattern would be a great find.
You got a great done on the dress form. I really should start looking at garage sales for things like that. I have one adult size form but it's a plus size so the regular form would be helpful.
What a wonderful photo! So cool to find a place with no other guests in the background, too.
Not a great picture. My model is away, and she doesn't always co-operate. I CASEd this from someone on the board. Using the peasant top from YCMT. I liked the button idea, but Kirsta informed me that Snow White had a yellow "line", not buttons. And the red ribbon should be at the top, not where I put it. I made the hem in a hankerchief style that is popular now. And I'd like to find red bike shorts to go with it. I think it looks really cute on. Hopefully I can get her to model it for me, so you can hav a better idea of how it looks.
Sounds like how Zoe got not long before she decided my work wasn't 'her style'. I made my own version of an Aurora dress for Halloween one year and she liked it but felt it necessary to point out where I'd deviated from the 'real' dress. LOL I guess it's a good sign when the kids notice such details.
does anyone know of a pattern (like on YCMT) that does a shirred back like this...
If you have a bodice that you like, you can use it for the front, possibly extending it to the length needed. The back is very easy to do. Here's how I do mine:
1) Cut the back the full size of the chest so it's about 2 times bigger than it will be needed. It's the same length as the side of the bodice front I'll be using plus allowance for a finished top edge.
2) Shirr it about every 1/2-3/4" starting about 1" from the finished top edge to about 2" from the bottom.
3) I like to line the front of the tops like this so I can easily 'sandwich' the shirred back between the layers of the front along the side seams.
4) Once the front is right side out, I press along the side seams and add a ruffle on the bottom all the way around.
Behind the Castle is the store Tinkerbell's Treasures, they have an Aurora dress display that changes from Pink to Blue. I keep looking for a peice of Pink and Blue Tye Die to make a dress, and embroider the "dueling" fairies on it. But no luck so far.
Here's an idea that just came to mind - possibly risky but it could be really cute. Make a dress out of white cotton or other fabric that will take dye. Dip dye the dress on each side, one in pink and one in blue leaving a narrow strip of white in the center where the dye can 'bleed' on it's own to blend the 2 colors. If there's too much white, you can spray or brush on additional dye to get a more even blending.
Another idea is to make the dress, put it on a dress form (well protected by plastic bags from top to bottom) then spray, brush and/or splash the dye on to get the effect you want.
I like the idea of using a dress that's already made so the dye effect continues across seams like it does in the movie. Working with tie dyed fabric would look cute but you'd have more noticeable seam lines where the dye patterns don't match up.
Ok...finally got a couple pictures taken and loaded into photobucket.
This is the outfit I made for the Big Give. I hope she likes it.
And then, just because I was having so much fun appliqueing, I stitched out Alice and then had to think of something to put her on.
Isn't she cute?
Those are really cute!
Hi ladies! I love reading your threads & seeing all the gorgeous outfits you make! I'm just starting DD's dresses for our trip in May (need to get moving on them!!). I'm almost finished this Cinderella dress but can't decide if it needs anything else to make it a little fancier. Any ideas? Maybe a satin ribbon to tie in the back? I used CarlaC's Simply Sweet pattern for the top & improvised a pettiskirt pattern for the skirt part. Chiffon is definitely a pain to work with, lol.
Good job on the chiffon! That stuff is not fun to work with. I bought some more than a year ago and still haven't had the courage to use it.

That's a great way to get the softness of a pettiskirt on a dress. I know skirts don't work well on my DD because they always seem to slip under her tummy which makes the front look saggy and too long.
As for the sash idea, I really like a sash on dresses with a bodice like that. It gives them a more finished look IMHO.
Pattern update I'm happy to say I got the Audrey skirt pattern sent out to some ladies to test and provide feedback. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that no one finds anything really stupid or otherwise wrong so I don't need to revise the pattern too much.