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Homemade Elsa Costume

July 21, 2014 By: Stephanie5 Comments

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homemade Elsa costume Make an Elsa costume. A quick tutorial from Binkies and Briefcases

Abby has been asking for this Elsa dress for months, but the stores have been sold out. So, when she asked again this morning, I decided to try my hand at a homemade Elsa costume.

I am an intermediate sewer. By that I mean that I know the correct way to do things, although I chose to ignore them, and I do know my way around a sewing machine. I love the creativity process. I hate all the math and measuring and ironing, so I go about things exactly the wrong way and take a ton of short cuts. If you want to sew from patterns and get exact measurements, I am not your gal. This is also not really a beginner project, but I’ll walk you through how I made this dress.

Fabrics for Elsa costume. These were all found at Walmart

This is the way I do it.

First, I have my daughter lie down on the wrong side of the fabric so that I can get an idea for the length. I mark her shoulders with sidewalk chalk. I always cut outside my chalk line. The chunky line from the sidewalk chalk gives me a built-in seam allowance.

trace your model

mark your measurements in chalk

Then I use a dress that fits her well and trace around it to get a shape.

trace a dress trace a shape in chalk

I marked the heart shaped neckline that I wanted. Then I cut out two pieces of the blue fabric and sewed them right sides together down the sides.  I hemmed the top and the bottom.

It’s hard to see in the photos, but there is also a blue sparkly fabric overlaying the front of the dress. 

I did the sleeves the same way I described above- I made Abby lie down and I drew the shape of her arms on the fabric, leaving a lot of extra room because I wanted the sleeves to be puffy.

I attached them to a strip of sheer white fabric in the front, then sewed the white section onto the top of the blue dress. I also hid some elastic straps under the sheer fabric to hold the dress up.

The closure in the back is just Velcro.

I attached a wide matching ribbon for the belt and Abby requested a cape, so I sewed one onto the back of the dress. 

elsa dress hidden elements

I bought all of my fabric and supplies at Walmart. You can definitely make this dress for less than $20.

For a size 6 dress I bought:

  • 2 yards of blue  $6 each
  • 1 yard of sparkly blue (front overlay)  $3
  • 1 yard of sheer, sparkly white $3
  • wide blue sparkly ribbon (belt) $3
  • blue and white thread $2
  • 1 pack of elastic $1

I had a ton of extra fabric, though, so I really think you could get away with 1 yard of blue and 1/2 a yard of the other fabrics. I plan to use the extra to make my younger daughter her own dress. The final cost for 2 dresses, based on the material I actually did use or this one (You can see in the photo up top that I bought some additional fabrics we decided we didn’t need after all), will be about $25.

If you make one please send a photo. I would love to see your homemade Elsa costume too!

 Elsa costume from Disney's Frozen

If you liked this project, don’t forget to pin it and come back soon.

Thanks for reading!

 

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Comments

  1. funnyisfamily says

    July 23, 2014 at 8:31 am

    I think I could do this! I hope so, anyway, because my 5yo was watching over my shoulder as I read this. PS Your little Elsa is adorable.

    Reply
  2. Stephanie says

    July 23, 2014 at 10:21 am

    You con do eeeet! (That was my terrible Schwarzenegger impression) Seriously, you totally can.

    Reply
  3. Meredith says

    July 25, 2014 at 10:33 am

    Steph, you scare me, but this is so impressive! And Abby looks beautiful in her new gown!

    Reply

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