I can bet you will see a million of these dresses, but I had to share mine.  I used McCalls 7000 which is a great starter pattern for what I did with this dress.  My daughter wanted a more fitted dress than what was shown on the pattern envelope so, in her own words, “Could look just like Elsa”.  Having made this dress once before just like the pattern suggested, I knew that I needed knit fabric for the sleeves and the top part of the bodice.  My daughter picked out a very nice sparkly white performance fabric for this part of the dress.

For the main part of the dress she choose a stretchy sequin knit and we lined the entire dress with a nice poly knit.  For the cape she choose an organza embossed with silver swirls.

Because this pattern was made for wowens, I cut out a size 3/4 and lengthened both the bodice pieces and the skirt to fit my daughter.  I also added a small train to the skirt and cape because my daughter told me I needed to do this to make it more “real”!  I also made the sleeves pointed and added a small loop of elastic to the point to go over her fingers.  The dress back pieces were cut on the fold because my daughter did not want a zipper so she could put the dress on herself without any help.  Finally, I cut a larger neckline to make it easier to get over her head and so it looked more like how she thought Elsa’s dress looked.  Unfortunately the neckline grew a bit, so I threaded some 1/8″ elastic in the neckline and that helped bring it in just enough to make the fit perfect.

I sewed the entire dress using my serger except for the neckline which I serged the edge and then topstiched using my regular machine.  I used a rolled hem on all sleeve, skirt and cape finishes.

My daughter did not like how the cape came around to the front of the dress, so we stopped it just under the arms.

We added silver trim to where the bodice meets the neckline fabric and added a beautiful sparkly snowflake button.  We found a lovely silver trim that we added to where the bodice and the skirt attaches that reminded us of icicles!

This dress was fun and easy to make and my daughter can hardly wait for Halloween.  She will be one of many Elsas, but I can guarantee most of them did not have such a big hand in helping with the making of her costume!

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