Elsa Dress!

Elsa Dress

My daughter was invited to a "princess party". Despite being a 5 year old girl, we are lacking in the princess dress department. We have a two year old Rapunzel dress from Target that's coming apart. I asked her what she wanted to wear and she said, maybe you could make me an Elsa dress?

I saw that coming a mile away, and had already started looking for online tutorials. There wasn't ONE that really worked for me, but I saw a lot of photos and decided it would be easiest to make the top with a shirt overlay and just a separate skirt. Oh, and a cape... a long cape.

I think it took longer to fabric shop with a 5 year old than it did to make everything.

I purchased a short sleeved shirt with rhinestones from Kohls to use as the top base.

From there, I cut the shiny blue material in a sweetheart design to attach to the shirt.

 

I wrapped the shiny blue around the shirt and just sewed it along the top and bottom.

She wanted a dress, not a shirt and skirt, but I wasn't sure the shirt could handle the weight of the skirt fabric and the cape she wanted. In the end, it was two separate pieces.

  

She didn't seem to mind that it was two pieces.

The cape is almost 2 yards of fabric so it would be long as requested :-)

I attached the cape to the shirt with Velcro so it could be removed if and when she got sick of it.