Princess T-Shirt Tutorial--Silvermist

There she is; the infamous Silvermist.  Well, infamous?  Maybe not.  But she is my daughter's favorite fairy.  More so than Tinker Bell.  Who'da guessed?  But she is.  This was the first dress I made in my mini line of princess dresses for Disney World.  This one was one of the easiest.  But, I think I made it more difficult than it should have been.

While I was searching Pinterest for ideas, I stumbled upon this gem.  I thought this video was going to change everything.  It was a big help.  But, Silvermist is the only dress I made this way.  This is the video for the no-sew/no-cut T-shirt dress.

So cool, isn't it?  I used the side tie idea for Silvermist.  I thought it was grand.

For Silvermist you need...

1. Royal blue t-shirt ( I used an adult M for my 6 yr old)
2. Safety pins
3. Felt squares--2 white, 2 yellow and 1 orange
4. Ribbon (I only had very thin ribbon so I used a total of 6 pieces for straps--3 in the front and 3 in the back)
5. Star shaped buttons or stick on gems
6. Aleen's Fabric Fushion (or any other trusty fabric glue)

NOTE: all of this could probably be sewn, but I don't sew.  I also don't measure.  Everything is eyeballed.

STEPS:

1. Watch the video and put the t-shirt twisting it sideways just as the video shows and tie
2. I safety pinned the tied sleeves together so I could get the dress on and off without having to re-tie
3. I then took the dress off of my daughter and laid it flat still tied

4. To create the flower petal I cut up the felt squares and glued them on.  This I thought was a great idea, but the felt is really thick.  It made the dress heavy and I think too hot for Disney.  Might use it for a dinner dress once it cools off a little bit down there.  In retrospect, I should have gotten a light material--maybe tulle even.  The next few steps are just cutting the different colors into petal shapes and gluing them on.  For the white and yellow, I used two sheets.  Only needed one for the orange.  And, again, I just eyeballed the cuts

 5. Let the glue dry!
6. Try the dress on

 7. I added straps next.  I didn't think that she would be able to keep the dress up on her own.  What I intended to do was to make halter straps.  Well, my eyeballs failed me this time.  I somehow wound up sewing the straps on over-the-shoulder.  One wound up in the front and the other wound up in the back.  Below is a close-up of the top of the dress.  I gathered 3 pieces of ribbon and put a stitch it in.  Then I held them in place on the inside of the dress and sewed a gold star button to the outside to cover up the stitches.  I did the same for the other strap. It wasn't until I put the dress back on my daughter did I realize that I had sewn them on in the wrong place. Oh, well, it still worked out and Slivermist has the over-one-shoulder thing going anyway.

FINAL PRODUCT