Frozen for Ladies #1210 & 1215- The Crowns and Capes

These are the three crowns I made for the models to wear with the adult Frozen costumes that just came out, but low and behold ... Simplicity used my crown for their second set little girl Frozen costumes, too. Those were done in their New York offices.

See ...

They are made with quart sized yogurt containers, spray paint and glitter. I did a complete tutorial that is at the Simplicity website. Use this link to go to it.

My crown tutorial for all three crowns at the Simplicity website.

I thought I would show you a couple things about the capes today, too.

This is a side view of the cape for Anna's winter dress. See how it slopes from the front to the back.

This is a photo I sent to Simplicity when I was experimenting with different trims. There are specific designs that are supposed to be on this cape similar to all the dresses, but I was happy to find this trim (that Simplicity makes) that works pretty well. I was getting tired of cutting and fusing all the motifs. Also, I was worried it would be difficult to put a design on polar fleece and I really thought this cape should be made of polar fleece. 

The ball fringe is inserted in the seam that joins the outside polar fleece to the cotton broadcloth lining. This seam has to be clipped and trimmed to lie flat.

Then I simply stitched on the trim with two rows of narrow zig zag.

I gave Elsa's coronation cape a nice long train. My dress form is a little off the floor so the train is actually a little longer than this. But, of course, this will change according to the height of whoever wears the costume and it can be made as long as anyone wants! Just buy a little extra fabric.

Sewing the purple flat trim around the curved edge of this upper cape is a little tricky.

I used purchased packaged single fold WIDE bias tape. And no matter how hard I tried I couldn't steam press it into a tight enough curve without it buckling and folding. So, I ran a machine stitch along the part that I was having trouble with and pulled up the thread to force it to ease in.

Then I was able to pin it all flat and edge stitch the inner side of the bias tape.


The main part of each of the capes is unlined, but if I were making this for a special person or occasion I think I might line it. The reason I didn't do it for these samples is that I hate to require people to buy, lots and lots of fabric if it isn't necessary.


Wednesday ... Elsa's snowflake dress and especially the cape.