Elsa

Like all the other sewing mums with a little girl, I made an Elsa costume. I finished this weeks ago, but have been struggling to photograph Adele in it. She went through an intense Frozen stage that lasted only a few weeks, but it now seems to have passed. To prove my photography challenge, I have 15 photos that look like this.

 And only one that looks like this. How sweet does she look?!! Shame it's all an act!

I'm happy with her moving on from the Frozen obsession as I am terribly sick of hearing her rendition of "Let it go,"  - which goes "Let it go! Let it go! I want you to win that prize!" over and over. Then when I ask her to stop, it becomes "Let it go, Let it go, I want you to smell that fart!" She's such a delightful child.

Adele and I picked this fabric during a very retrained trip to Spotlight, during which I purchased only the fabric for this dress, sports fabric to make bibs for Oliver's soccer team and fancy dance fabric for the school's dance group. Adele's dress fabric is a polyester velvet fabric with silver swirls on it. The cape is tulle with silver stars. Both were deemed very 'Elsa-ish' by the delightful one.

I used an existing dress pattern for the sizing, which I think may have been the Heidi and Finn cowl neck dress. The cape is a rectangle, the width of the fabric, which was gathered and basted along the shoulder seams and neck line prior to construction. This worked really well and if I ever make a dress up again, I'll also do this.

For the record, here's a photo of one of the bibs I made for Oliver's soccer team. He styled this photo himself. Clearly I do not have the same photography issues with my boys.

The bibs are more like netball bibs, just a hemmed rectangle attached with thick elastic at the sides and fold over elastic around the neck. 

The boys tend to appreciate the clothes that I make them more than Adele, but Adele demands more. I feel that I've done enough sewing for the kids for now though :) Have you completed any selfless sewing lately?