tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540761711646097949.post6878263884523833315..comments2024-03-27T10:04:51.949-05:00Comments on ikat bag: ElsaLiErhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13022645291278425282noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540761711646097949.post-72794130998326825512014-11-14T06:26:24.311-06:002014-11-14T06:26:24.311-06:00This spring I made two Elsa costumes (twin girls) ...This spring I made two Elsa costumes (twin girls) and one Anna costume (younger sister). I chose out the patterns (not duplicates) based on how close they looked like the online pictures available of the dresses. The hardest part was fitting the outfits to the girls' bodies, thin though they all are! But I also forgot that children Grow!! So over the three months it took me to make the dresses (I visit them once a week), and the later summer height increase, one of the costumes was a bit short. But they all enjoyed them for Halloween and dressup times.<br />For the long capes "which have to drag on the floor a long ways", I bought glittery net, pleated it to a piece of ribbon, then created a 'harness' from ribbon that they slipped onto their arms and over their shoulders. At the foot of the double long train I sewed a loop of gauze. I sewed a glittery fat button to the center of the pleated-to-the-ribbon strip, and then showed how the loop of gauze looped over the button and then the cape draped down the back to the hemline almost, out of the way. They loved them!Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17128379696456444487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540761711646097949.post-51463951519952282172014-11-11T20:06:12.717-06:002014-11-11T20:06:12.717-06:00You make the best Halloween costumes! I like your ...You make the best Halloween costumes! I like your Elsa dress much better than any of the commercial versions I have seen.MaryAnnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13253503049272771754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540761711646097949.post-73575831081152541872014-11-11T00:55:47.703-06:002014-11-11T00:55:47.703-06:00Awesome job, I love the way you approach costumes....Awesome job, I love the way you approach costumes. I have just finished making the same costume for my daughter. Really trying to adapt a cartoon dress into an actual physical dress is painful... as is hearing that song for the tenth time today! loofie and mishkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11176632316584233945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540761711646097949.post-62662835143383461042014-11-08T06:01:59.120-06:002014-11-08T06:01:59.120-06:00Beautifu! I love the way you hid your zipper in th...Beautifu! I love the way you hid your zipper in the back! I ended up using a thrifted nightgown in the perfect ice blue shade (stretchy, so I did not need a zipper) and made the cape detachable with velcro. It was simple and satisfied... until she realized I had forgotten the slit in the front. Ugh. Elsa really was THE costume this year, though! :)Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06865563846924591282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540761711646097949.post-47026382942633670262014-11-08T06:00:32.875-06:002014-11-08T06:00:32.875-06:00Now that's a smart girl, just like her mother!...Now that's a smart girl, just like her mother!Swatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17173996390154408845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540761711646097949.post-72528986323652773372014-11-08T02:12:19.637-06:002014-11-08T02:12:19.637-06:00Swati- you know that pleat/open dart in the back? ...Swati- you know that pleat/open dart in the back? We folded the train up so that it only hung down her back to her calves and looped it back/inwards through that open dart (it's really a hole with a fold) and there it stayed all night while trick-or-treating. From the back, it looked like a shortened train. It wasn't even our idea to fold it up - Kate herself didn't want it dragging behind her outdoors - just for pretend-play indoors. LiErhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13022645291278425282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540761711646097949.post-19760900466845109912014-11-08T00:56:37.651-06:002014-11-08T00:56:37.651-06:00Another puzzle solved prettily. I do wonder how th...Another puzzle solved prettily. I do wonder how the train fared though, in all those boisterous door to door journeys. Did other kids not step on it and tear it off the dress, did it not fall into some roadside puddle (must be rare there though), did she not find it a drag when running and so on. Pray reveal!Swatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17173996390154408845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540761711646097949.post-44163769070591535282014-11-07T23:27:09.514-06:002014-11-07T23:27:09.514-06:00I have no clue who Elsa is, but this is so beautif...I have no clue who Elsa is, but this is so beautiful!!<br />FuppiFuppileinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07087280163177526087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540761711646097949.post-40256671041503375912014-11-07T15:06:22.601-06:002014-11-07T15:06:22.601-06:00They are both so pretty!!They are both so pretty!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540761711646097949.post-16768664527284846662014-11-07T14:15:40.319-06:002014-11-07T14:15:40.319-06:00So lovely! Daughter was also nearly dissuaded but ...So lovely! Daughter was also nearly dissuaded but all for naught; I went for a full (self-drafted!) dress under the sheer top... you're my hero so your link is in there! Www.chefreeni.blogspot.com....Chefreenihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03142682274733169524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540761711646097949.post-3560870505099376892014-11-07T12:15:35.349-06:002014-11-07T12:15:35.349-06:00I've been waiting to this post, hoping to unde...I've been waiting to this post, hoping to understand the zipper and hoping for close up pictures of that, but it still confuses me so much. Oh well. Beautiful work! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540761711646097949.post-68204247319067419122014-11-07T09:02:51.213-06:002014-11-07T09:02:51.213-06:00Why did this post bring tears to my eyes?! I guess...Why did this post bring tears to my eyes?! I guess because all the love you have for your beautiful daughter(s) is so apparent in all the details you went to in making costumes. Kate look so serenely elegant! I love the pose with her looking down at her shoulder. Awesome job once again, Mama LiEr!Grandma Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09260178906088230163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540761711646097949.post-61752463936674179122014-11-07T08:30:23.220-06:002014-11-07T08:30:23.220-06:00Oh the pictures of the two sisters together! Swoon...Oh the pictures of the two sisters together! Swoon. Definitely portrait size worthy. ~*jane*~https://www.blogger.com/profile/11032193701135527637noreply@blogger.com