{ my first ever princess dress}
Hope you all had a lovely Christmas with your
family and friends and some time to relax and dream up future sewing and crafting projects!
I certainly had a nice time and the privilege to see the eyes of a soon to be
five year old girl light up with excitement when she whispered “ Mummy, Santa was
here…come!” ...
A Rapunzel dress was on the wish list and at first I was
looking to buy one but my google search brought up an expected amount of home
made creations that I thought “ Oh my, I’ll make one…!”
Well, let’s say it was easier said than done. I didn’t buy
the pattern from Simplicity and for a first time costume maker maybe I should
have done. Next time! Yes, that’s right; even without the pattern I had so much
fun making it than I am just waiting for the next request for a princes dress.
It was also my first time sewing non cotton fabrics and if
you ask my craft friends they’ll tell
you that I avoid non cotton fabrics…I don’t even use jersey, so this was a real
challenge, not to mention the organza fabric…
Here without further ado, I present you the Rapunzle dress…
And you can’t have a Rapunzel dress without a Rapunzel hair…so
1km ( yes, you are reading that correctly 1 kilometre- it was written on the
label) of yellow yarn and some plastic flowers later and here it is…
Let’s just say that Lovely Little Big Daughter was
delighted!
For obvious reasons ( I didn’t know what I was doing most of
the time), I don’t have a tutorial but
a number of times I looked at this tutorial from Make It Love It - it's absolutley great! I can just
say that it wasn’t so hard to sew those satin fabrics together and if you’ve
never tired it than you should give it a go – never thought I’d say that.
In the next few days I’ll start preparations for a Rainbow
birthday party. I love to throw myself a challenge and I have been busy pinning
and dreaming up rainbow projects.
Have a lovely weekend!
Love
Irina xx
