Atlantia Coronation Disney Garb Challenge: Cheshire cat
Besides making a dress for my friend (the Mad Hatter) I made myself a Cheshire cat dress based off of a German Woodcut. The Cheshire cat is my favorite Disney character ever.
So the basis for the dress was this woodcut. I chose it because it is stripy and there is a hat I wanted to try making. Also, I had pink and purple linen on hand, so this becomes a stash project as well.
The skirt seems to be just lots of stripes and there appear to be stripes at least on the lower half of the sleeves. But the top of the sleeves and the bodice are obscured by the coat and the instrument. I decided to do the sleeves as fitted and striped all the way up to match the skirt. For the bodice, I did a pink bodice with purple guards since it is really unclear what the bodice looks like. The bodice pattern was draped by me to be cut in one piece. (A fun note, if you cut the bodice this way, and then cut the guard in one piece and stitch it on later, no one can find you seams at all. This really confuses people. I did not do this here because I was a bit limited on the purple fabric.)
The guards were pinned and then handsewn on by me during my shuttle rides to and from work (hence all the wrinkles since this dress spent a bunch of time shoved in a bag on my walk to and from the shuttle).
To make the skirt, I simply ripped strips of fabric and then french seamed them together.
Finally, sleeves are my nemesis, but for some reason this draft actually worked! I am saving this pattern forever..... The sleeves were cut out of the pink linen and the purple linen strips were handsewn down. The first picture is the stripes pined down on the pink base. The second pic is the stitching of the stripes.
Finally, the sleeves were stitched together and lined with the pink linen.
Overall, this dress took about a week and I had surprisingly few issues. I will cover the hat in the next post and will also include pictures from the event.
So the basis for the dress was this woodcut. I chose it because it is stripy and there is a hat I wanted to try making. Also, I had pink and purple linen on hand, so this becomes a stash project as well.
The skirt seems to be just lots of stripes and there appear to be stripes at least on the lower half of the sleeves. But the top of the sleeves and the bodice are obscured by the coat and the instrument. I decided to do the sleeves as fitted and striped all the way up to match the skirt. For the bodice, I did a pink bodice with purple guards since it is really unclear what the bodice looks like. The bodice pattern was draped by me to be cut in one piece. (A fun note, if you cut the bodice this way, and then cut the guard in one piece and stitch it on later, no one can find you seams at all. This really confuses people. I did not do this here because I was a bit limited on the purple fabric.)
The guards were pinned and then handsewn on by me during my shuttle rides to and from work (hence all the wrinkles since this dress spent a bunch of time shoved in a bag on my walk to and from the shuttle).
To make the skirt, I simply ripped strips of fabric and then french seamed them together.
Finally, sleeves are my nemesis, but for some reason this draft actually worked! I am saving this pattern forever..... The sleeves were cut out of the pink linen and the purple linen strips were handsewn down. The first picture is the stripes pined down on the pink base. The second pic is the stitching of the stripes.
Finally, the sleeves were stitched together and lined with the pink linen.
Overall, this dress took about a week and I had surprisingly few issues. I will cover the hat in the next post and will also include pictures from the event.