Frozen skirts

Cinderella dress

I knew I wanted to make the dress for Maddy's first Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique experience.

But how to find out what she would want without telling them about the trip?

I just have been telling the girls maybe next year we will go.

So, originally (6 months ago) Maddy said she wanted to have an Aurora blue dress. 

I thought out my design and when I went shopping for fabric I got fabric that would look good as an Aurora blue dress.

Well, before I could sew it she had changed her mind and wanted a Cinderella blue dress. 

I thought- great. That will be even easier as I already have an actual Cinderella pattern. 

But when I finished it I just wasn't satisfied. 

I felt like the colors looked weird and the style seemed plain. 

These pictures are from the night I first finished it.... (the bodice is actually a little darker than it showed up in these pictures but not quite as dark as it shows up in the bottom pictures. )

I kept thinking about it and thinking about it and I just knew that I needed to add something. 

Finally I checked to see if I had enough fabric to make ruffles along the bottom in the two colors used for the bodice and the puffs. 

I did!

Now, there wasn't enough to make them as roughly as I kind of wanted and it is imperfect but I think the end result is SO much better.

Sofia the first Skirt

I used the apron ruffle skirt pattern to make this Sofia the first themed skirt for Abi for the trip! I love how it turned out.

Sofia the first dress

We are planning to go to the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique again on our upcoming Disney World trip. Abi made her dress choice easier for me because she said she wanted to be Sofia the First for Halloween. We have told her that if we "ever" go again, she would need to bring a dress because the Fairy godmother makes the dress special only your first time. So she said she wanted to take her Sofia dress if we go again. Win. Win. 

However, the dress ended up being really challenging. 

I used a pattern for a Cinderella dress and had to tweak it a lot to be a Sofia dress. 

I screwed up so many times. AND it looks different from this now as well.

I took these pictures the morning after I finished it. 

Sorry they are so dark.

As you can see it is a little too low in the front. The pattern must have run HUGE because I did it one size bigger like I usually do (so they last longer) and it was way too big... this was even after taking it in and up a few times already. 

So, after I took these pictures and she was off to school, I took in the back about 5 inches and added a zipper. 

It is still a bit too big and she will have to wear an undershirt. But she loves it. So that's all that really matters. 

Sewing: Small World skirts

I made these skirts for our day at Epcot and possibly dinner at 'Ohana. 

A few years ago I bought the Small World fabric on Etsy knowing that eventually I would want to make something with them. However there wasn't much of the fabric so I knew I would have to get creative with using it in a way that it still was the focus of the skirt but I wouldn't need much of it. 

I saw a skirt on a trip report over on the Disboards. I couldn't ask what pattern it was because they had bought it already made. 

So ever since then I have been on a quest to find the pattern. I finally found it a week ago on You can Make This.  It is this pattern. (Audrey ruffle skirt and it comes in a few different variations)

I got the pattern in both sizes that I needed for a very reasonable price and then got to work. 

I just love how they turned out!