Last-Minute Princess Costume

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

• White T-shirt
• Bottle of dye
• 1yd of panne fabric
• Roll of ric rac
• Metal pin back
• 2yds of solid tulle
• 2yds of glitter tulle
• Roll of 1" elastic
• Roll of 4" glitter elastic
• Roll of duct tape
• Hot glue gun/glue gun sticks
• Scissors

DIRECTIONS:

1. Dye the t-shirt following the dye package instructions. Only place the shirt in the dye for 3-5 minutes to keep the color light. Rinse according to the instructions, and let the t-shirt dry. Take the panne fabric and lay the shirt on top of it. Let the fabric hang 3" below the t-shirt and have it 3" above the arm pit seam. Cut the fabric to go around the shirt with a 1" overlap.
2. On the back of the shirt, lay the fabric against the t-shirt right sides together and glue the middle back seam. Bring the fabric all the way around the shirt and back to the seam and tuck the fabric in. Glue the seam closed so that you do not see any raw seam edge. At the top of the fabric on the back, fold it under and glue the ric rac tape to the top edge to make a clean edge. Then glue it to the shirt. Trim the ric rac at the arm seams.
3. Flip the shirt over to the front and scrunch down the front in the middle. Place a small dab to hold it in place on the shirt. Pull the sides on the front up of the panne fabric up to the arm seam. Fold the top edge under. Glue the ric rac to the top folded edge and glue in place. Then glue it to the shirt. Trim any left over ric rac at the edges.
4. At the bottom of the panne fabric, make a gather by scrunching upwards every 4" and place small dabs of hot glue to hold the scrunches up. This way the t-shirt with have delicate gathers if you want to leave it on top of the skirt instead of tucking it in.
5. To make a ric rac rose, scrunch the ric rac ribbon in a circle like you are creating the center of a rose. Place small dabs of glue while you go around with the ric rac and build upon the previous circle to build a bigger flower. Stop when you have a flower about 3" across. Snip the end and tuck it under with a small dab of glue.
6. Adhere a pin back to the back of the flower.

1. Measure the 1" elastic to fit around your child. Cut it and set aside. Repeat this step with the 4" glitter elastic as well and set aside. Measure the solid tulle to your child first to get the length of the tutu. Cut the length of the tulle, but not the width.
2. Stretch the white elastic on a tabletop and duct tape it down. Starting at one end of the white elastic, place a bead of hot glue and scrunch the tulle onto the glue bead. Continue to place a 2" strip of glue and scrunch the tulle onto the elastic. Do this all the way across the elastic strip until you have all of the solid tulle adhered to the elastic.
3. Take the glitter tulle and fold it in half top to bottom to fit the tutu. Cut 5 strips that are 12" wide. Glue those strips on top of the yellow gold tulle about 8" apart. Do this while the elastic is still taped to the tabletop. Take the glitter elastic and glue on top of the scrunched tulle to hide the glue seams with the excess glitter elastic pass the top of the band of glued tulle. Once you have both layers glued together and the glitter elastic on top, take off the duct tape and the tutu will scrunch tightly together. Bring the ends together and recheck your waist size. Glue the ends together. Wrap the glitter elastic over the top and glue to the inside to give it a finished look.
4. Take the solid tulle and cut 1"x 8" strips. Gather each glitter swag and bunch up the tulle. Then tie it with the solid tulle strips to hold the gathers in place. Cut 14"x 16" wide strips in the solid tulle. In the center of each strip, tie a loose double knot to create a rose. Trim the edges to look like a rose cluster. Hot glue the rose clusters in between each glitter panel and at the same height as the tied gathered bunches of the gold glitter tulle.

JOANN HACKS:

• Go light on the hot glue. It adheres well to fabric.