Ever since our fabulous Barbie dress design workshop at the Indianapolis Children's Museum, I have been quietly whiling away my hours attempting to create a similar design from scratch-ish. I knew that I wanted the dress to have that same simplicity and ease of construction, but knowing what you want a garment to look like isn't really enough if you don't actually know much about patternmaking.
Also, Barbie has really skewed dimensions. It took a while.
Although I still have some corrections to make to my pattern before I share it with you (it needs to be 1/4" wider, I do believe, and the hem should curve more, and I might make it a little longer), my latest mock-up was accurate enough that Sydney and I were able to spend a happy afternoon actually, you know, USING it.
Part of my intention with this pattern is to make it simple enough for even a small child to use, but I ended up cutting out and constructing several dresses all by myself anyway, because Sydney remained focused on one thing only:
DESIGN AND EMBELLISHMENT.
Glitter glue:
A lot more glitter glue:
It actually took this particular dress over a day to dry, on account of the two entire tubes of glitter glue that it sports.
Buttons and baubles:
And a generous helping of hot glue to make it all stick:
And then, a fashion show!
I made these out of felt just so that they'd be quick and easy as a spur-of-the-moment project in which Syd walked up to me as I was working on something else and said, "Let's make doll clothes now!", but once the pattern is all settled and she's actually used it a few times, I plan to open up the entire world of my stash fabric to her, and then I think that the young designer will really be in runway heaven.
1 comment:
i love your post!
what a creative mama you are with finding a dress they can make over in so many different styles.
have you perfected the pattern? and willing to share?
btw i found this post when i did a search for a no sew barbie dress pattern for my little girl!
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