How to make atutu princess dress?

carlamarie_2

I'm making my daughter a Cinderella inspired princess dress. Similar to this Snow White one but with puffy sleeves and bigger skirt



image by carlamariecraft, on Flickr

Now I can do all the skirt part fine, but I'm confused ihow to do the bodice? Or what it is? Is that crotchet?
I can't find any info on the net, so thought I'd ask my crafty friends instead!

Push come to shove I will use a vest for that bit, but it will be difficult getting it n the correct colour I would think

flea72

Looks more like sheering elastic to me, than crochet

flea72

Cottontailboutique.com do one with puff sleeves and poofier tutu, perhaps look at that for ideas

carlamarie_2

Thanks flea, the website you gave me has a lot of those dresses on Pinterest which I've been looking at. I know how to do the sleeves and skirt it is just the bodice.
I have no idea how to create that? And I can't find any tutorials online either

flea72

Shirring elastic is easy. There are lots of online tutorials

carlamarie_2

Thanks again flea! I have now found a million tutorials, it helps when I spell things right on a google search lol!
Now to order the materials and *hopefully* make a beautiful dress for my beautiful princess

flea72

carlamarie wrote: »

Thanks again flea! I have now found a million tutorials, it helps when I spell things right on a google search lol!
Now to order the materials and *hopefully* make a beautiful dress for my beautiful princess

I had a brain freeze in my first post too lol. I knew sheering didnt look right, but couldnt think what was right

carlamarie_2

I was typing 'sharing elastic' lol!
Thanks again!

tillyenna

Just in case it interests you, it's shirring in America, here it's called smocking (although that looks like some pretty fancy smocking) which is probably a more recognizable term to people :-D

carlamarie_2

tillyenna wrote: »

Just in case it interests you, it's shirring in America, here it's called smocking (although that looks like some pretty fancy smocking) which is probably a more recognizable term to people :-D

Thank you. I've got it sorted now, the material came today so I hope to make a start tomorrow