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I made my godchild a Belle princess dress: DIY princess dress for children

I made my godchild a Belle princess dress for her birthday (Beauty and the beast). Little creatures in order of appearance: - housecat - holly blue (Celastrina argiolus) - alpine newt (Ichthyosaura alpestris) - lime hawk-moth (Mimas tiliae ) - cockchafer or maybeetle (Melolontha melolontha) Creative process: I started with asking my godchild which dress she would like to have. I gave her a few example and she grew fond of the dress from Disney princess Belle. But she asked me to make some adjustments. She wanted it to have puff sleeves, and a soft, tulle skirt. Fabrics: - stiff tule: for the structural underskirt - soft tule: layer above structural underskirt, to make the dress fluffy - polyester satin: underskirt, a shorter overskirt and the puff sleeves - cotton jersey: for the bodice (I ended up using a store-bought cotton t-shirt in order to save some time) I colored the soft tulle so it would match the rest of the fabrics better. Nylon is easy to dye, it soaks up color pretty well. I just followed the instructions on the packaging… Kinda….(hehe) The yellow turned out very cold and bright, while I preferred a softer, warmer yellow, so I gave it a second short bath in black tea to adjust the color a bit. Plan: I would make the dress in two parts: a bodice and a skirt, so it can be worn however needed and it’s more forgiving to the speed that kids grow in. For the bodice I worked with a store-bought t-shirt where I planned to attach the puff sleeves onto. For the skirt, the bottom layer would be a simple satin skirt, made out of two thirds of a circle skirt. On top of that would come structural underskirt made out of the stiff tule. This structural skirt is made with 6 thirds of a circle skirt (double circle skirt). On top of that would come a layer of the soft tule (two rectangles that would be gathered at the top). And finally there would be a shorter overskirt, made from a smaller circle skirt pattern, gathered up on 5 points to make it look like Belle's dress. Making process: First I made a pattern for the structural underskirt. I attached all the 6 pieces to each other with my sewing machine. The fabric was not very stretchy so I didn’t need to put special settings. Since I used double the waist length in the pattern calculations, this skirt needed to be gathered at the top, which I did by hand. The rectangles of the soft tulle were very stretchy so I decided to gather them by hand with a simple running stitch. For the final underskirt I used the pattern again from the structural underskirt, but this time just two thirds. Because my godchild is rather sensitive to seams touching her skin I decided to make a French seam, these are the softest to the touch and not very ticklish. If you wonder how such seams are made, you can find many in dept tutorials on youtube. I finished off the bottom of the skirt with a rolled hem. Then I attached all layers to each other, one by one and went over it with my sewing machine. Now that all the longer skirts were cut out, I adapted the pattern that I used until it was fit to cut a shorter circle skirt. I quickly used a zigzag stitch on the waist to stop it from fraying. And then I realized that, since the fabric is 100% polyester, I could use a little flame to finish off the edges, this gave a clean look to this fabric. When you use a fire in your projects, always make sure to have anything by your side to put the fire out in case it catches on something else. (like a fire blanket) And then with the leftover fabric I made a waistband. I left enough room inside to run an elastic through. In all my calculations for the waist I added an extra 10cm so that there would be room to grow in this dress. In the beginning it can be worn with an elastic, later when a bigger waistline is needed the elastic can be removed and a zip can make sure that she can put the skirt on and off. I attached the waistband with a zigzag stitch to make it extra sturdy Then I gathered up the overskirt on 5 different spots to make it look like Belle’s skirt. The t-shirt that I would use as the base of the bodice was white, so first I died it yellow to match the rest of the dress. For the sleeve pattern I worked with a regular sleeve pattern that I could find on the internet. I adapted this pattern: the sleeve needed extra length and width in order to be gathered on the top and bottom to become a puffy sleeve. Then I gathered the fabric so it would fit around the sleeve on the t-shirt, I turned it inside out and stitched it to the t-shirt on the shoulder seam and turned it right side out again. After that I gathered the sleeve on the bottom of the t-shirt sleeve and attached that with a zigzag stitch in order to keep the stretch. Next I made some bows out of ribbon and attached it to the dress with a pearl on top. My godchild was very happy to be wearing her new princess dress Thank you all for watching and I wish you a lovely day.