It's totally not an Elsa dress. Elsa dresses have blue glitter on them that comes off and gets all through your sewing machine so that even though you've cleaned it yourself regularly AND had it serviced, there's still a little bit of that glitter EIGHT YEARS LATER!! (However, that particular Elsa dress is now with its fourth Little Princess, so no regrets. Well, not many.)
I feel like, looking at the final product, this would make an awesome wedding dress if you were planning a wintertime or fantasy-themed wedding. It’s super pretty and fun!
Two tools that I think would have helped you immensely here: 1: Walking foot. 2: Water soluble stabilizer. It’s by Pellon and you can cut strips of it to go between your fabric and your feed dogs. Then when you’re done with that seam, spritz it with water and it all goes away.
@@weepingwillow1993 that's a great idea! Once I have a really flimsy fabric that kept getting caught up and I used wash soluble stabilizer wrapped around the seam allowance. Worked great, no puckering and it washed away once it was quilted and finished!
A corset and petticoat would help carry the weight of the dress and provide the structure of shape amd flounce you were looking for. Maybe doing a fusion modern lounge version of those would be a fun project and added layers to all your dresses!
I realize this is super random, but when you sang the little Frozen melody at the start, my 3 kittens all came running and just stared at the tv. I don’t think they’ve heard Frozen before, but they were absolutely enchanted by the intro! 😊 I’ve been learning Procreate as well - one thing that has been wildly helpful for me is finding Etsy shops with stamp brushes. I use a lot of pose stamps and fabric textures - they’re seriously a godsend and so fun to play with! I’m happy to recommend some of my favorite shops if you want me to!
@@amys3168 I love ProCreativeBreeze - they have a ton of templates and textures. DigitalArtByChao & KsTumanova also have really good fashion illustration figures and some great texture brushes and clothing stamps. I hope you like them!
With the stretch velvet and slinky fabrics, pressing a strip of Glad Press and Seal along the seams and sewing through that makes a HUGE difference in keeping the fabric under control. Once you are done sewing, the plastic rips off neatly along the seam lines. I was amazed at how well this worked.
The blue dress is panne velvet, which is softer and has a longer pile length and is slipperier. It's usually poly/rayon/spandex and that just makes for a slippery fabric. The white velvet has a shorter, stiffer pile that kind of "repels" itself when placed with right-sides together. The white fabric is probably poly/spandex, and maybe a little cotton thrown in, because cotton makes for a stiff velvet. Velvet DOES catch on your hair, which makes it an excellent material for scrunchies! My favourite childhood scrunchie was dark blue velvet because - blue - and it actually stayed in my thin, slippery hair! The SWOOSH! That dress is dangerous in small spaces! Did you get a friend to do the crown braid or did you do it yourself? I only ask because they're tricky to get even on yourself.
As someone who often struggles to understand just spoken dialogue, THANK YOU FOR YOUR CAPTIONS. Just like your pieces and especially this stunning dress, they are a work of art! I cannot overstate how awesome it is that you (or a friend?) took the time to make really amazing captions.
If you don't have any tissue paper, greaseproof paper or baking paper will work too...or even plain old newspaper if that's all you've got... just so long as there's something between the fabric and the feed dogs. 😀 🙃🐨🇦🇺
Adding machine tape works, too. And if not a walking foot, then a Teflon foot. Great for working with charmeuse and chiffon. Both very slippery fabrics.
Haha, the only tape I would definitely say not to use that I thought would be a great hack and turned into a stupid blue mess is painters tape.... I ended up pulling blue and adhesive out of a seam for hours 😂 Probably not the tape you meant!
I recently got engaged (months ago) and have been struggling with picking a date. I've always wanted a winter wedding and now that I've seen this I've decided on this December this dress is going to be perfect. It's absolutely gorgeous and heavy is good because I live in Minnesota add winters are very cold. Thank you so much for this dress design. Your amazing love watching you ❤
This came out so pretty! My brain is seeing so many different versions - one with sheer arm capes; one with white-on-white embroidery all over it; one with the hushest hint of pale blue and silver sparkly beads sewn onto it... And all from the World's Comfiest Hoodie Dress!
I’m so so happy about being able to use the white dress for a lining. It’s like when in a book things just click and you see the threads tracing back oh man so freaking satisfying.
Honestly, before the hood, it was giving major Princess Leia vibes! Plus, I couldn't concentrate on the trimming explanation because puppy!! Love your videos ❤
That dress is ~fabulous~ and I love it! I'm not sewing with stretch velvet again until I have forgotten all the struggles I had with it last time. I still remember it quite vividly because the dress is visible in my ufo pile...
All the versions are wonderful! It's really fun watching you take one pattern and make vastly different dresses. Even though the fabric was horrid to work with it looks amazing!
I love this. I especially love the pointed hood and the swooshiness of it. Its beautiful. If anyone is looking for their next Snow Queen I think you are it. Also the makeup was perfect too.
Love this dress. Possible fixes for your fabric issues, French seams, as you sew the more stable backs together first. Walking foot, it's fab for "sticky" or super stretchy fabrics. Water soluble stabilisers Parchment paper in a pinch, as it is time consuming to remove after sewing. Hope that helps ❤
21:03 you could totally turn your blue bowl into a pincushion to keep by your sewing machine lol add some coarsely ground walnut shells into it when you go to stuff it as it acts as a natural pin-sharpener lol
this is gorgeous good job sticking with it and not giving up. I made a similar dress from emerald green stretch velvet many years ago and my mom who is a seamstress told me to put tissue paper between the fabric and shorten my stitch length a little so once your done you pull the tissue from the seam and it stops that nap from rubbing against itself and causing the stretching. and it worked well for me.
That looks amazing! You might try using a lightweight armature wire sewn into the edge of the hood to make a stable version that keeps the rounded shape. I think that might look heckin' cool.
I LOVE THE BASKET!!!!! You are just amazing. Whenever I sit down & try to wing it, my material almost always ends up just being turned into cloth napkins. It NEVER works out for me. But you? You're a wizard! I don't know HOW you do it, but I'm amazed that it truly does work for you. And yes, my brain works a lot like yours does, but maybe mine is just way more chaotic? Anyway, LOVE your channel 💖💖💖
20:26 That is a really good pot 24:19 Whenever you say you didn’t film something I’m like noooo I wanna seeeee, but also I respect your choices Hood tutorial hood tutorial 24:42 the train is magnificent! At first I thought you must have made another cape something, but nope! just train. I love seeing your dog lol 30:18 your caption game is top-tier
I love your content, I love your designs, but most of all I love the absolute joy that is your reveals! You always look like you’re having so much fun 😊
I think you found out why that fabric was at Remainders. I wonder what you would think of A Stitch in Time's recreation of the Arnolfini Portrait dress, with its full lining of fur?
I like that you have a winter goddess, spring goddess, and goth goddess now you need fall and summer goddess, rainbow and sunshine and lunar/moon goddess dress!
Love it. Snow queen / Winter Nymph vibes (especially with the make up) Totally understand about velvet. I'm not working with it again for a long while cos of same reasons.
I apologize. If I'd have waited like one more second I'd have seen you did what I suggested with the firmer fabric. I love the final product. It's gorgeous.
For anyone following the steps to make a medieval gown, may i suggest sewing the arm capes to the elbow, or, more accurately, making the outer sleeve fit to just above the elwow and flare out to a giant bell shape that hangs off your forearm.
The first time I worked with stretch velvet, I made a huge cloak with a friend's help, the second time-several years later- I sewed a dress completely by hand(I didn't have access to a sewing machine or a friend to help since sewing machines still scared me at that point), this project looks like it combined my first two velvet projects, but longer and in white instead of purple 😁
I'm so sorry you had so much trouble with the construction >_< this is ... kinda exactly how I feel about ANY knit. Your prowess over the knit world is just so impressive to me - don't let this demon fabric get you down! You still rule the knit domain in our eyes!
In, "The VIP's" with Elizabeth Taylor she wears a white dress with white fur which is wrapped with a string of small pearls. You'd be Stunning with the hem like that. Good luck! 😊
Making a beautiful dress and up cycling an old dress in the same project is very impressive. Knitts are my nemesis, too bad that got to find out why.❤️
When I've sewn on stretch velvet I slip a thin paper between the right sides and then just tear it out when I'm done sewing. The paper stops the weird catching. You did an amazing job 💙
Now i have to do my springtime princess dress. Its butter yellow and will have flowers and leaves embroidered on the hem and neckline with really impractical dramatic sleeves
I have been working on a dream “high fantasy” inspired velvet robe off and on for the last year. Just fell in love with a silver lavender velvet I had found… anyway, I ironed facing to all my bodice pieces, and pinned the life out of it to avoid shifting and seam picking because… well you found out 😬 I stalled with the sleeves, because I’m aiming for double sleeve drama, too 😂 plan is full length bell sleeve to be able to be pinned to the shoulder, or left long… inner sleeves to have thumb holes… no hood.
I never look too hard at the thumbnail, so this entire video was me rooting for the sleeve capes to make it to the final product. Definitely one of my favorite over the top additions to dresses, and the whole thing turned out gorgeous!
Hello watching from North Yorkshire in the UK. It is great to find a site I can connect to. I have been seeing clothes since I was 18 years old now 59. You are an inspiration and I look forward to watch more. In the USA you have been fabric shops. We hardly hard any
I have sewn tricky or fur fabrics using a toilet roll. As it’s yards and yards long and you can just split it away easily from the stitch line, it helps stop fur or loops getting caught in the foot of the machine if you use it on top and helps keep a slippery fabric from slipping a bit if it’s on the underside. I now have a walking foot and that might have helped in this case too. Lovely
I was appreciating that dress and recalled when Saffia Nygard got married and designed /found (?) her dress, and I was thinking you and her should’ve collaborated because I think she’d really like your dress. The hood. Yep that hood. Considering all the problems you had with that dress you did such a good job. I was expecting to see something that would look like what I did and now it looks great like they all do. That definitely had the drama going on. More hoods for everyone!!
Half of sewing really IS staring at your fabric... I used to work with a lot of stretch velvet and never had that many problems either, but I did recently encounter a drapery fabric that I needed to pin to paper or something to run it though the feed dog cause it was fuzzing it up, and I was doing french seams so it wasn't just hiding the fuzzy on the inside... I love how that turned out only I feel like you need to fling the hood tail forward over one shoulder so that it doesn't hide the lovely back lacing!.
Fantastic reveal...you did a lovely job for just winging it...the back fit you verywell...meaning I liked the way you had the seams...lots of fun ...now where are you going to wear it, don't forget to take pictures of event ..
oohh how beautiful! It reminds me of a fairytale I had on a CD as a kid... I had a whole collection of different fairytales (not the standard like sleeping beauty and Rapunzel, and I'm talking the Grimm-version). It is by Hans Christian Andersen and its called "the snow queen". Somehow I thought it was what inspired you, but since you didn't mention it at all, I might comment it... The plot as far as I remember: Said Snowqueen was an evil witch that stole a young man, declared him as his child/assistant/sidekick/love interest and put an Ice shard in his heart, which removed him having feelings at all. His girlfriend or soon-to-be-girlfriend if it weren't for the queen took on a hard and difficult travel to save him, and in the end she managed to free him, the whole kingdom and her love by making him crying his shard out of his eyes. (It may be wrong in some places and not the complete breakdown, but I didn't want to google.) Over the years I realized that the evil snow queen got portrayed in chronicles of Narnia and the ice-shard in heart thing got adapted in frozen... a little sad, because the original fairytale had a woman save a man, without but-s. Oh well, we can't have everything. Anyway, the dress reminds me of said snowqueen!
I work with stretch velvet for dance costumes...I use regular paper or receipt paper underneath mine, loosen off the feed dogs/foot a bit and take it slowly. xx
Hello, I got a tips to sew this type of fabric : you put a piece of paper between the fabric and the sewing machine then you can tear the paper out and the sewing stays net ;) Love your videos. hugs from France
I just use some beautiful floral stretch velvet for the first time as I found it on a remnant clearance for like three dollars after making my top I would not ever ever ever use stretch velvet again even if someone paid me ! I love the black dress version.
You can drive up to Mt. Baldy in the winter to go see snow in LA. My dad used to take us up there every winter. It’s not that far from LA area. Way less than 6hrs. ❤
You can also drive to Big Bear Lake in about an hour from where I think you live. Pretty much any of the high peeks in the San Gabriels or the San Bernardinos will get snow every winter
love your Wilderness Lodge mug. Also, spirit jersey sweater? That sounds comfy... The final product looks like it was worth the hassle it put you through. It's super cute!
It's totally not an Elsa dress. Elsa dresses have blue glitter on them that comes off and gets all through your sewing machine so that even though you've cleaned it yourself regularly AND had it serviced, there's still a little bit of that glitter EIGHT YEARS LATER!!
(However, that particular Elsa dress is now with its fourth Little Princess, so no regrets. Well, not many.)
Glitter is the herpes of the crafting world! Once you get it, you can’t get rid of it.
glitter aka "craft herpes"!
I know it's Snow Queen Core, but it's also giving serious Formal Princess Leia On Hoth vibes. Gorgeous!
That's what I thought from the thumbnail, before I read the video title 😂
I'm pretty sure it's the pointed sleeve giving us that vibe.
YES!!! I couldn't come up with what I was being reminded of!!
I was thinking the White Queen/White Witch of Narnia myself. Amazing end result!
I was thinking exactly the same thing!
I feel like, looking at the final product, this would make an awesome wedding dress if you were planning a wintertime or fantasy-themed wedding. It’s super pretty and fun!
Two tools that I think would have helped you immensely here:
1: Walking foot.
2: Water soluble stabilizer. It’s by Pellon and you can cut strips of it to go between your fabric and your feed dogs. Then when you’re done with that seam, spritz it with water and it all goes away.
I was just going to say about the walking foot but didn't even think about the water-soluble stabilizer. I'm stealing this idea 😋
I third the walking foot... They are a life saver for wrangling knits.
Yes!!! I've done the stabilizer and it worked so well!
I thought the same thing
Can you say Quina(sp) fabric. I made a prom gown in 1979 and had the same issues of gathering. Finally did the stabilizer a d it helped.
“😊I call that face when sewing “ resting stitch face
I'm nicking that one lmao😅
🤣🤣🤣
maybe a 'walking foot' would make it feed through easier
My thoughts exactly. 😊
You could also try strips of tissue paper or just paper between the feed-dogs and the fabric.
Walking foot, tissue paper.
@@weepingwillow1993 that's a great idea! Once I have a really flimsy fabric that kept getting caught up and I used wash soluble stabilizer wrapped around the seam allowance. Worked great, no puckering and it washed away once it was quilted and finished!
A corset and petticoat would help carry the weight of the dress and provide the structure of shape amd flounce you were looking for. Maybe doing a fusion modern lounge version of those would be a fun project and added layers to all your dresses!
I realize this is super random, but when you sang the little Frozen melody at the start, my 3 kittens all came running and just stared at the tv. I don’t think they’ve heard Frozen before, but they were absolutely enchanted by the intro! 😊 I’ve been learning Procreate as well - one thing that has been wildly helpful for me is finding Etsy shops with stamp brushes. I use a lot of pose stamps and fabric textures - they’re seriously a godsend and so fun to play with! I’m happy to recommend some of my favorite shops if you want me to!
Oh please! Recommend to me!
My cat’s head snapped around too! 😹
@@amys3168 I love ProCreativeBreeze - they have a ton of templates and textures. DigitalArtByChao & KsTumanova also have really good fashion illustration figures and some great texture brushes and clothing stamps. I hope you like them!
With the stretch velvet and slinky fabrics, pressing a strip of Glad Press and Seal along the seams and sewing through that makes a HUGE difference in keeping the fabric under control. Once you are done sewing, the plastic rips off neatly along the seam lines. I was amazed at how well this worked.
Its giving a Snowy Princess Leia and Im HERE for it!!
The blue dress is panne velvet, which is softer and has a longer pile length and is slipperier. It's usually poly/rayon/spandex and that just makes for a slippery fabric. The white velvet has a shorter, stiffer pile that kind of "repels" itself when placed with right-sides together. The white fabric is probably poly/spandex, and maybe a little cotton thrown in, because cotton makes for a stiff velvet.
Velvet DOES catch on your hair, which makes it an excellent material for scrunchies! My favourite childhood scrunchie was dark blue velvet because - blue - and it actually stayed in my thin, slippery hair!
The SWOOSH! That dress is dangerous in small spaces! Did you get a friend to do the crown braid or did you do it yourself? I only ask because they're tricky to get even on yourself.
As someone who often struggles to understand just spoken dialogue, THANK YOU FOR YOUR CAPTIONS. Just like your pieces and especially this stunning dress, they are a work of art! I cannot overstate how awesome it is that you (or a friend?) took the time to make really amazing captions.
You needed to add tissue paper to the seams so you sew over it or you can place tape on the underside of the presser foot.
That is how we learned it at school. Love your videos.
^^^^ This! I use tissue paper when I sew lace on a project to protect my work from the feed dogs. It works great and easily rips off when your done.
If you don't have any tissue paper, greaseproof paper or baking paper will work too...or even plain old newspaper if that's all you've got... just so long as there's something between the fabric and the feed dogs. 😀
🙃🐨🇦🇺
Adding machine tape works, too. And if not a walking foot, then a Teflon foot. Great for working with charmeuse and chiffon. Both very slippery fabrics.
Haha, the only tape I would definitely say not to use that I thought would be a great hack and turned into a stupid blue mess is painters tape.... I ended up pulling blue and adhesive out of a seam for hours 😂 Probably not the tape you meant!
I think doing the sleeve capes in chiffon on another dress would look really nice.
I recently got engaged (months ago) and have been struggling with picking a date. I've always wanted a winter wedding and now that I've seen this I've decided on this December this dress is going to be perfect. It's absolutely gorgeous and heavy is good because I live in Minnesota add winters are very cold. Thank you so much for this dress design. Your amazing love watching you ❤
The makeup MADE this final result. Love it all but the makeup took it to the next level.
I'm getting Princess Leia vibes but winter edition
Leia*
Oh my gosh, I just realized that we're entering a generation in which we have to explain who Princess Leia is ..... 😮
@babyjohnnyfrostrobertson5473 no, I know who she is. I'm 43
This came out so pretty!
My brain is seeing so many different versions - one with sheer arm capes; one with white-on-white embroidery all over it; one with the hushest hint of pale blue and silver sparkly beads sewn onto it...
And all from the World's Comfiest Hoodie Dress!
I’m so so happy about being able to use the white dress for a lining. It’s like when in a book things just click and you see the threads tracing back oh man so freaking satisfying.
Honestly, before the hood, it was giving major Princess Leia vibes!
Plus, I couldn't concentrate on the trimming explanation because puppy!!
Love your videos ❤
This is snow queen Leia and I'm so here for it!!!
Always so excited when you upload! Also you have the BEST caption skills of any creator I follow, I see and value your efforts!!
I totally agree! I appreciate the effort put into the captions!
That dress is ~fabulous~ and I love it!
I'm not sewing with stretch velvet again until I have forgotten all the struggles I had with it last time. I still remember it quite vividly because the dress is visible in my ufo pile...
Tissue paper between the fabric and the machine, you can just tear it off when you're done. It will create the slide you need.
I was thinking Princess Leia when I saw the side view of side cape sleeves before all the fur and the hood. Loved this!
All the versions are wonderful! It's really fun watching you take one pattern and make vastly different dresses. Even though the fabric was horrid to work with it looks amazing!
I love this. I especially love the pointed hood and the swooshiness of it. Its beautiful. If anyone is looking for their next Snow Queen I think you are it. Also the makeup was perfect too.
Love this dress.
Possible fixes for your fabric issues,
French seams, as you sew the more stable backs together first.
Walking foot, it's fab for "sticky" or super stretchy fabrics.
Water soluble stabilisers
Parchment paper in a pinch, as it is time consuming to remove after sewing.
Hope that helps ❤
Love this dress! The hoood is eeeverything! (The pompon would not have been my choice, but was sooo perfectly whimsical😊)
So pretty! It is very snow queen, but also has big Princess Leia vibes, which just adds to the majestic nature of the whole thing.
the way the bottom of the dress wraps around you after you twirl is 😙👌
21:03 you could totally turn your blue bowl into a pincushion to keep by your sewing machine lol add some coarsely ground walnut shells into it when you go to stuff it as it acts as a natural pin-sharpener lol
Love how it turned out. I also think of Princess Leia on Hoth. I’m glad you stuck with it, you learned a lot and it looks amazing.
It came out so beautiful!
this is gorgeous good job sticking with it and not giving up. I made a similar dress from emerald green stretch velvet many years ago and my mom who is a seamstress told me to put tissue paper between the fabric and shorten my stitch length a little so once your done you pull the tissue from the seam and it stops that nap from rubbing against itself and causing the stretching. and it worked well for me.
That looks amazing! You might try using a lightweight armature wire sewn into the edge of the hood to make a stable version that keeps the rounded shape. I think that might look heckin' cool.
"I'm sure it'll be fine!" Should be on a shirt. 😂
YES!!!
I LOVE THE BASKET!!!!! You are just amazing. Whenever I sit down & try to wing it, my material almost always ends up just being turned into cloth napkins. It NEVER works out for me. But you? You're a wizard! I don't know HOW you do it, but I'm amazed that it truly does work for you. And yes, my brain works a lot like yours does, but maybe mine is just way more chaotic? Anyway, LOVE your channel 💖💖💖
20:26 That is a really good pot
24:19 Whenever you say you didn’t film something I’m like noooo I wanna seeeee, but also I respect your choices
Hood tutorial hood tutorial
24:42 the train is magnificent! At first I thought you must have made another cape something, but nope! just train.
I love seeing your dog lol
30:18 your caption game is top-tier
I love your content, I love your designs, but most of all I love the absolute joy that is your reveals! You always look like you’re having so much fun 😊
I think you found out why that fabric was at Remainders. I wonder what you would think of A Stitch in Time's recreation of the Arnolfini Portrait dress, with its full lining of fur?
There is a reason why my sewist mother calls ....that fabric...."devil fabric"!
Love the dress!
I like that you have a winter goddess, spring goddess, and goth goddess now you need fall and summer goddess, rainbow and sunshine and lunar/moon goddess dress!
I live in Minnesota and this dress surrounded by sunshine and green reminds me of that last snowfall as Spring hits. Beautiful
Love it. Snow queen / Winter Nymph vibes (especially with the make up)
Totally understand about velvet. I'm not working with it again for a long while cos of same reasons.
I apologize. If I'd have waited like one more second I'd have seen you did what I suggested with the firmer fabric. I love the final product. It's gorgeous.
My first thought was Princess Leia.
My final thought was Princess Leia! Most Excellent!
For anyone following the steps to make a medieval gown, may i suggest sewing the arm capes to the elbow, or, more accurately, making the outer sleeve fit to just above the elwow and flare out to a giant bell shape that hangs off your forearm.
Your thinking face! It’s hilarious 🤣. That is for sure a Snow Queen dress and not an Elsa gown, it’s beautiful 🥰💕
The first time I worked with stretch velvet, I made a huge cloak with a friend's help, the second time-several years later- I sewed a dress completely by hand(I didn't have access to a sewing machine or a friend to help since sewing machines still scared me at that point), this project looks like it combined my first two velvet projects, but longer and in white instead of purple 😁
I can completely see this as a wedding dress
That turned into a medieval miracle!! Gorg!!
Looks stunning! I was worried a bit about the fur but is turned out really glamorous ❄
So, February 9 here - lots of snow in Big Bear but I don't know how the roads are. It's gorgeous. Well done.
You've outdone yourself! It's gorgeous! 🌻🍄
I'm so sorry you had so much trouble with the construction >_< this is ... kinda exactly how I feel about ANY knit. Your prowess over the knit world is just so impressive to me - don't let this demon fabric get you down! You still rule the knit domain in our eyes!
In, "The VIP's" with Elizabeth Taylor she wears a white dress with white fur which is wrapped with a string of small pearls. You'd be Stunning with the hem like that. Good luck! 😊
Loved every minute of this video. Randomly I’m about to sew white stretch velvet 😂
For the slippery sticky stuff look for a walking foot for your machine. It feeds the fabric from the top while the feed dogs feed from the bottom.
Making a beautiful dress and up cycling an old dress in the same project is very impressive. Knitts are my nemesis, too bad that got to find out why.❤️
I love your pots from your class. Some day I'll have to do a story time about how I ended up with my studio.
That dress is so stinking gorgeous! It's Epic, great job despite the frustration of the fabric.
Such a creative design, I love it :D
Also when you compared it to the black dress, my mind immediately went "ah look it's Aziraphale and Crowley!"
When I've sewn on stretch velvet I slip a thin paper between the right sides and then just tear it out when I'm done sewing. The paper stops the weird catching. You did an amazing job 💙
I was working on a difficult fabric like that recently and my mom had suggested I try using a quilter's walking foot. It was a game changer!!
It is gorgeously awesome!
I LOVE this!!!!!! It pays homage to both the original story and a 1980' English TV show based on the original story
this dress is so extra and fabulous!!!!
Now i have to do my springtime princess dress. Its butter yellow and will have flowers and leaves embroidered on the hem and neckline with really impractical dramatic sleeves
A whale basket 😂😂😂 only Charlie can make that sentence hilarious.
I love the dress. Drama everywhere ❤❤
I have been working on a dream “high fantasy” inspired velvet robe off and on for the last year. Just fell in love with a silver lavender velvet I had found… anyway, I ironed facing to all my bodice pieces, and pinned the life out of it to avoid shifting and seam picking because… well you found out 😬 I stalled with the sleeves, because I’m aiming for double sleeve drama, too 😂 plan is full length bell sleeve to be able to be pinned to the shoulder, or left long… inner sleeves to have thumb holes… no hood.
Okay I don't normally go for all white but this is AMAZING!!! 😍😍😍😍 Snow Queen and Hoth Princess Leia!
OBSSESSED with the makeup in the reveal
The dress looks very pretty and warm. An underskirt would fill out the drape a bit at the bottom. A woolen felt underskirt would be toasty warm.
The number of Animal Kingdom things I have for that exact reason! I love visiting the places I worked at WDW and reminiscing
Absolutely love the turn out
I never look too hard at the thumbnail, so this entire video was me rooting for the sleeve capes to make it to the final product. Definitely one of my favorite over the top additions to dresses, and the whole thing turned out gorgeous!
2 suggestions, use a walking foot to sew that kind of fabric also iron on a thick terry towel it will help greatly.
I love how this turned out. Adore me a split sleeve, even if they get into everything while you're doing stuff 😅
Hello watching from North Yorkshire in the UK. It is great to find a site I can connect to. I have been seeing clothes since I was 18 years old now 59. You are an inspiration and I look forward to watch more. In the USA you have been fabric shops. We hardly hard any
A gorgeous swooshy snow queen dress. Worth the difficulty.
It may have given you a headache, but it looks DAMM GOOD ON YOU!!!!! GREAT JOB.❤❤❤
Three tips for velvet, stretch or woven: walking foot,
BASTE (everything), and use a mohair velvet upholstery fabric as press cloth
I have sewn tricky or fur fabrics using a toilet roll. As it’s yards and yards long and you can just split it away easily from the stitch line, it helps stop fur or loops getting caught in the foot of the machine if you use it on top and helps keep a slippery fabric from slipping a bit if it’s on the underside. I now have a walking foot and that might have helped in this case too. Lovely
I was appreciating that dress and recalled when Saffia Nygard got married and designed /found (?) her dress, and I was thinking you and her should’ve collaborated because I think she’d really like your dress. The hood. Yep that hood.
Considering all the problems you had with that dress you did such a good job. I was expecting to see something that would look like what I did and now it looks great like they all do. That definitely had the drama going on.
More hoods for everyone!!
Half of sewing really IS staring at your fabric... I used to work with a lot of stretch velvet and never had that many problems either, but I did recently encounter a drapery fabric that I needed to pin to paper or something to run it though the feed dog cause it was fuzzing it up, and I was doing french seams so it wasn't just hiding the fuzzy on the inside...
I love how that turned out only I feel like you need to fling the hood tail forward over one shoulder so that it doesn't hide the lovely back lacing!.
Fantastic reveal...you did a lovely job for just winging it...the back fit you verywell...meaning I liked the way you had the seams...lots of fun ...now where are you going to wear it, don't forget to take pictures of event ..
The dress looks stunning, for all of the ups and downs, it has come out like a dream❤
It drove you crazy but man oh man did it come out lovely! Great job friend! I love everything about it!
oohh how beautiful! It reminds me of a fairytale I had on a CD as a kid... I had a whole collection of different fairytales (not the standard like sleeping beauty and Rapunzel, and I'm talking the Grimm-version). It is by Hans Christian Andersen and its called "the snow queen". Somehow I thought it was what inspired you, but since you didn't mention it at all, I might comment it... The plot as far as I remember: Said Snowqueen was an evil witch that stole a young man, declared him as his child/assistant/sidekick/love interest and put an Ice shard in his heart, which removed him having feelings at all. His girlfriend or soon-to-be-girlfriend if it weren't for the queen took on a hard and difficult travel to save him, and in the end she managed to free him, the whole kingdom and her love by making him crying his shard out of his eyes. (It may be wrong in some places and not the complete breakdown, but I didn't want to google.) Over the years I realized that the evil snow queen got portrayed in chronicles of Narnia and the ice-shard in heart thing got adapted in frozen... a little sad, because the original fairytale had a woman save a man, without but-s. Oh well, we can't have everything. Anyway, the dress reminds me of said snowqueen!
I work with stretch velvet for dance costumes...I use regular paper or receipt paper underneath mine, loosen off the feed dogs/foot a bit and take it slowly. xx
Ooooh it's so prettyyyyy! 😍😍 Velvet is one of my favourite fabrics... to wear. To sew, it's more like [eternally screams into the void]
In a Santa crossed with King Arthur story this would make a glorious lady of the (frozen) lake
That looks exactly like my mother's wedding dress. She got married into December in New York. It was a beautiful dress.
Hello, I got a tips to sew this type of fabric : you put a piece of paper between the fabric and the sewing machine then you can tear the paper out and the sewing stays net ;)
Love your videos. hugs from France
I just use some beautiful floral stretch velvet for the first time as I found it on a remnant clearance for like three dollars after making my top I would not ever ever ever use stretch velvet again even if someone paid me ! I love the black dress version.
You can drive up to Mt. Baldy in the winter to go see snow in LA. My dad used to take us up there every winter. It’s not that far from LA area. Way less than 6hrs. ❤
You can also drive to Big Bear Lake in about an hour from where I think you live. Pretty much any of the high peeks in the San Gabriels or the San Bernardinos will get snow every winter
Thank you so much for the effort you put in your subtitles / music descriptions! They made me laugh out loud more than once :)
love your Wilderness Lodge mug. Also, spirit jersey sweater? That sounds comfy... The final product looks like it was worth the hassle it put you through. It's super cute!
I laughed so hard when you showed the basket.
Bless your heart, it’s fantastic & made my day.
now you can start bribing kids with turkish delight.
It snows at Big Bear. You just want to be there with your hot chocolate supplies before it snows.