Renaissance Inspired Cinderella Gown for a doll, part 4: The Drama Queen

The first three posts of this gown you'll find under the label Disney Style Renaissance Inspired Cinderella Gown. The first post was about sewing the dress, the second was about the shift and in the third was photos of finished gown without a doll. This post is maybe a bit more about Flavia The Drama Queen than about the gown itself.

 She is such a theatrical girl! (Sleeves with organza ribbon.)

Ok, Flavia, this is maybe a bit too much.

 I'm happy that I finally got silk ribbon for the sleeves.

Now that Flavia has done so much theatrical posing she feels that she is able to do some neutral poses to present the gown.

And here we are again. Although this is quite moderate theatricality. (She is quoting Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet, I guess.)

 P. S. Did I tell you why it's a Cinderella gown? Well, of course because it's blue.

Renaissance Inspired Cinderella Gown for a doll, part 3: finished gown

(This post is about making the gown, this post is about the chemise of the outfit.)

Huge sleeves and a tiny-tiny train. Well, it's more like an overlong hem in the back. Well, aren't overlong hems called trains? Or is there a particular measurement that defines when it is a train and when it is an overlong hem?

I replaced the light blue organza ribbons of the sleeves with cream-yellow silk ribbons. And I took photos with the silk ribbons. But I can't find those photos...

The front part of the skirt is made from silk taffeta. All hems (and many seams) of this costume are hand stitched. Hand stitches are not as even as machine stitches (at leas my hand stitches are not), but I like the overall image of hand stitched (period) doll clothes. The image is kind of soft.

The front piece of the skirt is lined.

There is quite a lot of fabric in the back.

Synthetic velvet is not easy to handle (at least for me), but its softness is a good thing when you are sewing doll clothes. As you can see, it drapes beautifully.

I say this hook and eye closing is quite invisible! Yay!

The bodice part of the dress is lined with cotton.

Here you can almost see that the sleeves are lined also. Because of lining, the sleeves are very puff, not flat.

Tiny rings on shoulders and sleeves are for attaching sleeves to the bodice.

Next I'll post photos of my drama queen doll, Flavia, with this dress!

Renaissance Inspired Cinderella Gown for a doll, part 2: the chemise

(Previous post was about making the gown for this outfit.)

I just love doll undergarments made from white cotton. They look always so crisp.

Sleeves must be a bit overlong because of oversleeves. You know, Renaissance sleeves. White poofs coming between lacing. Oh dear, I cant say it better in English.

Back (as you can see).

This cotton lace is beautiful!

Crisp!

Lace!

Sorry! Lace again!

And one with socks!

This is the last one! With not-so-renaissance shoes! I think Flavia looks cool here.

Renaissance Inspired Cinderella Gown for a doll, part 1: sewing the gown

When Flavia (a Helen Kish doll) arrived, I decided immediately to sew her a Cinderella gown. And not any Cinderella gown, but a Disney Style Renaissance Inspired Cinderella Gown. I wanted to recreate this:

It's not a triumph of sewing skills, but it's one of my favourite, because it's one of my (rare) impulsive sewing projects. I remember that I was a bit down and decided to help myself with a sewingtherapy. I wanted to make something bling-bling in Disney princess style. I sewed the dress very quickly from materials I had at hand and did it without patterns and made all choices spontaneously. It was an accident that finished dress looked a bit like Renaissance gown. Because it was blue, it was of course Cinderella's dress. So. I named it Disney Style Renaissance Inspired Cinderella Gown :D

And now. Pictures about making Flavia's gown.

As you can see, the bodice pattern is Very Simple. First I sewed a golden net (yes, I know, of course it's not golden) and then added tiny pearls (yes, not pearls).

 (Very first thing to do was a chemise. I'll post pictures of it later.) Here is going on some fitting.

Next thing was to make tiny rings for attaching sleeves to the bodice. I sewed rings onto shoulder hem.

 Then some ribbon. As you can see, the tiny rings are hiding there on shoulders.

 Closeup.

And fitting just for fun.

 It looks a dress already!

But there is still lot to do.

Like gold thread and pearl embroidery (yes, again, not gold  and pearls). After embroidering I sewed a lining on this front part of skirt.

 If you look carefully, you can see that at this point I have sewed ribbon also to the waist.

This picture is here because Astrid is so CUTE.

And finally, the sleeves. I sewed lining on them. And attached tinyt rings on the shoulder-end of the sleeves.

Here you are! Two Cinderella's Renaissance Inspired Gowns!

P. S. There will be plenty of more pictures of the finished gown in an other post!