Alice in Wonderland Dress: COMPLETE!

Here's my daughter Lexi in her completer Alice Costume!

Alice in Wonderland Dress: The Details

Working on the last details of the Alice costume. I am working on the hand embroidery, quite time consuming. I haven't embroidered in a while so I'm rusty. Even if its not perfect I think it will still look cute :)






I think the finished product is pretty cute. The embroidery took a couple weeks to finish, working a couple hours a day on it. I also made gloves out of ribbon and left over sheer material.

 

Thanks to alice_kingsley for the embroidery pattern at: http://alice-kingsley.livejournal.com/1295.html

Alice in Wonderland Dress: The Beginning

The first sewing project I am going to discuss in the dress I am sewing for my daughter Lexi. We watched 'Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland' and she has become obsessed and wanted an Alice dress (pictured) so I am making her one. Since there is not a pattern for the new Alice dress or one similar enough for a child yet, I used a pattern for a Cinderella dress and modified it for my needs. So far I have completed sewing the skirt and I have the bodice completed minus the puff sleeves and details. I will add pictures soon of what has been completed.

Here is another picture of the dress I am making.

Here is my daughter's Alice thus far. I have the completed bodice, minus the puff sleeves, and skirt minus the hemming. I plan on adding the sleeves,  sewing the dress together, and hemming tomorrow. Then on to the details. On the bodice, I am adding the buttons, black cording through the lace which will also help the lace lay flat, and I am placing small cording in place of the seams that were too complicated for a child's bodice, since it needs to lay flat and not curved.  The skirt has the most difficult details, the black embroidery on the skirt's edge.

Underneath the skirt in the film was a black and white petticoat what seemed like too much weighty material for a child's costume, so I decided to make a blue tulle skirt instead. I liked that the tulle shirt could be used later to dress up like a fairy or a ballerina, I liked its multi functionality. With the elastic waist, I could even wear the skirt and could match my daughters, who both have tulle skirts since Lexi loves to dress up. 

When I'm done with this dress, I will be sick of this color blue!