Snow White!

It started with some more pretty fabric.  Look at those primary colors and how they pop next to each other!  It appealed more to me than the pink on pink of Aurora.

It started out well, considering it was only my second dress, and this one had piping in the front.

Then I got to the sleeves.  Oh my goodness.  Have you looked at Snow White’s sleeves?!!! 

(As a side note, apparently it had been a while since I’d really looked at Snow White’s sleeves.  Part of why I liked these costumes so much was that they were so “authentic”.  But then I see that the cuff on the sleeve in all these pics is yellow!  Mine is blue!  And some of the pics don’t have that yellow line up the front … Oh well, too late now!)

The man who drew them ought to be shot.  The dress patter designer at Simplicity ought to get a medal.  It’s quite the process.  First, you take two blue sleeves and sew the tear-drop shapes:

Then you cut away one of the blue layers, leaving little, tear-dropped edges you can fold under.  Clip the seams.  Iron. And you have the outside layer done.

Now for the red tear-drops:

Using red sleeve pieces, you have to sew around each tear drop a second time.  Then cut away the excess red.  And you finally have a sleeve piece that’s ready to sew.  Note: READY to sew.  I gathered the bottoms, gathered the lining, gathered the tops of the sleeves before sewing them to the bodice.  It took forever, and I gave up on pictures (for which you are probably grateful!).  And then I finished the dress:

It is a little big on her, but it’s about what I was shooting for, so she can use it to dress up in for a while before she outgrows it.

The accessories for this one were the cape, the bow, and a dickey (that white thing that sticks up behind Snow White’s neck, but given S’s dislike of things around her neck, I left that one out). 

It’s maybe not as twirly as L’s dress, but she loves the cape, and I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out.

One week left, on to J’s costume … Wish me luck!