A while ago I decided to make some princess dresses for Hana and her little friends for when they’re old enough to play dress up, and I actually started Merida’s green dress when I was pregnant and then a shimmery blue, lacy number a few weeks ago, but after my discovery of PatternLab I was inspired to make my own dress. I chose Anna’s coronation dress from Frozen, but then I realized I shouldn’t be making myself costumes I’ll never get to wear and instead should be concentrating on someone who will wear what I make, so I grabbed my handy dandy Simplicity 1097 pattern, ran to the fabric store, and got started on Anna’s Frozen Fever dress!
I decided a little too late to start a blog so I don’t have progress pictures of the beginning stages. I started taking pictures when the bodice and yolk had been sewn up and sewn together.
In the short, Anna’s undershirt/yolk is much more yellow than the mint green I used here, but the black velveteen was $24 a meter and I already had so many other colours to buy that I decided to just use what I could find from the sale rack. It is a nice cotton fabric with a textured outside and soft inside for comfortable wear. The gold is a nice silky texture but a nightmare to work with because I had to fold it down ever so slightly and sew along the edge but the dang fabric melted under my iron!
Which led to a ton of pinning.
As you can see, the gold doesn’t match up well to the black. This is because the gold fabric decided it was too good to be cut properly and slid all over the place, despite using pins generously. And when it was sewn up it got even worse.
Not only did the black and gold not line up, but neither did the point. I’m hoping I sew the bodice to the skirt at 5/8″ because that will cover the excess black but if not I may be forced to trim it, making it uneven.
Now I’m off to cut the skirt, something I’ve been dreading doing because it’s so big and I really hate cutting out huge pieces of fabric. Wish me luck!
Until next time!
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