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Wow. It officially happened.
Taking my little girl to Disneyworld a few weeks ago completely sealed her obsession with Cinderella. I think it had something to do with that huge castle at Disneyworld that Cinderella “lived” in. The whole trip left this little girl in complete awe of the princess in a blue dress.
She ate it all up.
And automatically turned into a complete princess………with no prompting from me.
She could hardly keep her body still while in her new dress.
Her little body kept twirling, twisting, and prancing around.
Or as another dress for the dress-up box?
Or how about as a dress-up gift for Christmas?
Remember, tips from this dress can be used for many dress styles and Halloween costumes.
Now, turn the dress right side out and make sure that it all came together correctly.
Then hem up the bottom after making sure that it’s the length you’d like it. And that’s it.
EDITED: If you’re interested in the accessories that go along with this dress, click here for a tutorial on the headband, gloves, choker, and full slip ideas.
I LOVE this! Thank you! I think my three year old daughter is going to love it even more! Your tutorials are always so great. I love your blog!
Thats beautiful, you should be really proud of it!
I am in awe. When I saw the top pictures, I thought for sure you would give us the pattern number. This is amazing! I'm almost inspired to try freestyling without a pattern (but still a little chicken)
I don't sew anything other than straight lines. This blew me away. I'm so impressed! Absolutely stunning!
you are amazing! i can't believe you made this without a pattern! high fives and pats on the back for you!!
Beautiful! And you make it seem very do-able, too. Thanks for sharing the tutorial.
Wow!!! I love it and my daughter loves it even more. When I showed her she asked "can you make me that mommy?" Thanks for the tutorial, I'm going to attempt it.
This makes ME want to be Cinderella for Halloween! Your daughter has great taste!
Great tutorial-this is definitely going to be bookmarked for future reference.
So impressed! :) My daughter (only 9 months old) is going to be Tinker Bell this year. Store bought, but maybe a few years down the road and I can give Cinderella a try! :)
This is amazing! I love that you put so much time and detail into creating something your daughter obviously LOVES. It's just beautiful, even if it is just a costume/play dress.
Oh wow! She looks so pretty in her Halloween costume! And my goodness you made the prettiest dress for her! You have tallent!
This is absolutely fantastic – you need a book deal! This costume is so much better than anything you could buy in the store and you can tell it was made with so much love. It will definitely be an heirloom for years to come!
Wow! This has to be the best made Cinderella dress ever. I hope I can make one for my 6 yr old. She was given a *bought* Disney Cinderella dress that is already falling apart. There's just no quality in it at all, sadly.
Thank you for the picture tutorial!!
1. Thank you so much for the wonderful tutorial!
2. I am incredibly jealous of your sewing talent.
3. That is the best Cinderella dress that I've ever seen! My little girl would die for that dress.
this is gorgeous! absolutely amazing! thank you for sharing the tutorial!
Oh my goodness! I love it! I want to make one for me!! Haha!
Ashley, this has to go on your top tutorials list! Your personality was definitely written in along with your excellent direction-writing and photography.
Like you said, everyone has different abilities. Me, I have rarely sewn a thing in my life…still too perfectionistic and afraid to mess up! But I will get over that and am always inspired by your creations. Thank you, thank you!
I'm LOVIN' it! Too bad I made my daughter a Cinderella dress a few years ago…I LOVE this one so much more. I'm currently sewing a fairy costume from a store bought pattern and I keep cursing all the needless steps, I should have come to you first! Now…if you have a desire to do a mermaid costume tutorial anytime soon, I just might love you for life :)
That’s a bit cheeky now isn’t it ! Haha no my daughter loves it too finally finished making it after 2 weeks !
Wow that was amazing!! You make it look so easy. I am going to have to give that a try after Halloween as my quirky girl wants to be a dinosaur for Halloween this year!! Last year I made her a Little Bo Peep costume and loved it she did too and still wears it today:)
You are so talented! Wow!
That is such a cute dress. Can you give us the list of materials and amounts to buy…I want to give it a try.
WOW!!! I'm so amazed I'm speachless! I can not believe you made that without a pattern. I was already impressed by the dress, but then when I saw you did it without a pattern, my jaw hit the floor. I hope one day I can be just like you. Your children will look back on all these costumes you have made them and will really appreciate them when they are adults.
Gosh that's cute! Love the tutorial – I did a mermaid one over on my blog but it isn't nearly as easy to follow as yours. I am definitely bookmarking this!
WOW – you are really amazing. It looks wonderful!
That is such a beautiful dress. Your daughter looks adorable.
Amazing :) You did a great job. I think I need a lot more practice before tackling something like this. It turned out beautiful :)
You are a great mom! I miss Ellie, I can't believe how big she is, not a little nursery girl anymore. I hope you guys are doing well.
OMG how beautifull you made that… love it. Great job!!!
Love this! I just had my 3rd little girl two weeks ago. My oldest (4) said that she wants to be Cinderella, her 1 year old sister to be Tinkerbell and the 2 week old to be Snow White. This is an awesome dress! I thought that I would have to buy her dress since I don't sew, but I think I am going to give this a try.
On the skirt section, did you add in any sort of lining? It looks like there is something in the pictures.
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Thanks a ton!
Oh my goodness! This has to be the most perfect Cinderella dress ever! And you made it look so simple! I mess up everything I sew and end up wanting to throw the machine across the room, but reading your tutorials . . . even this one, I'm left thinking, "Oh yeah, that looks do-able." Thank you for giving me back my confidence!! ;o)
Oh my goodness this is SO perfect for me. My 3.5 year old has been begging for a cinderella dress, and I had no idea where to start. You taught me some things that I'd been having trouble with in the past, too, like how to do the neckline. Thank you so much for posting this. I will definitely be bookmarking it and referring to it often when I attempt my dd's dress!
Beautiful,beautiful,beautiful dress! And you watched for all the details! Great.This Cinderella has one great mom!
Ashley, You are such an amazing seamstress. I am always in awe of your creativity and talents. What a darling tutorial. I will have to copy this one when my little girl gets just a tad older. Thank you for sharing!
WOW!!!
That is absolutely incredible! I love to sew and would make tons of dresses for my little girl if making things myself were cost effective :(
You did such a good job with this! I love it!
Oh how I love this! I wish you'd posted it two weeks ago, before I made my daughter's "Ariel in the pink dress" dress sans-pattern. Mine turned out ok, but you have so many finishing details that just make it so pretty! Thanks for the tutorial, though. Figuring out the puffy hip-things was the trickiest part for me–glad to know how it should actually be done. :)
Seriously?! You just whip out a fantastic Cinderella dress?! Love it, my daughter would love it, and maybe I will be brave enough to try it one of these days.
you are rediculous! did you just cry when you put the finished product on her and saw how adorable she looked and that you MADE that from scratch? your kids are dang lucky to have a mom who sews so well.
verry verry beauty ı love this
Wow!! What a lucky little girl and so nice. Congratulations for the creation.
Many thanks for the tuto, I'm sure I will have the same order from my little princess.
Each time I'm amazed with your work and love all what you do.
Thanks for sharing.
This is amazing and I can't wait to try it! Thanks for making it appear a little more simple for non seamstresses like myself :)
You are AMAZING. Seriously AMAZING!
Love this! It is beautiful. I linked to it from my blog, hope you don't mind!
thanks for sharing this…I love the puffy sleeves. I going to try making an Alice in Wonderland Dress for my daughter and I have not yet made anything with sleeves, you made it look easy I am less scare now. Thanks.
I love this I featured it on my blog,actually I featured you TWICE in the same post, I love this please come over and take a look!
https://dragonflyfeathers.blogspot.com/2010/10/featuring-my-favorites-friday-no6.html
I think this is by far the best homemade Cinderella dress Ive ever seen! All of the ones Ive seen look homemade, and I'm sorry that is not a compliment, but yours looks an expensive Disney store-bought dress!
Thanks for the awesome tut!
gorgeous!! I LOVE it!!! I think I might adapt this for a tiana costume for my dd!!! thanks!!!
This could not have come at a better time for me! My 3-year-old is a new princess convert, and Cinderella is her favorite. We bought her a purple princess dress for Halloween and she has already torn it up from wearing it so much. I've been stressing about what she will wear for Halloween, but now I know…just have to get busy sewing! Thanks!
I am so glad I saw this today. On Monday night I was sketching out some 'dress up' clothes for my twin girls for Christmas, but I couldn't figure out how to get some of the details worked out. This has answered a lot of my questions.
I love that you don't always use patterns. You are a gal after my own heart!
Once again, you have amazed me! I have 3 boys so I will not be making a beautiful Cinderella costume of my own but truly, this is amazing (even with the sleeve after the bodice thing). I didn't know the difference anyway ;o). Have a wonderful weekend…smiles
OH MY GOSH!!! YOU ARE AMAZING!!!
This is adorable. My 2 1/2 year old daughter is obessed wants to be Snow White for Halloween this year and so I'm going to use many of your instructions as I make her dress. This will be so helpful. Thanks so much!
Adorable. I just finish a Tinkerbell costume for my niece. I wish she would of wanted a harder costume like Cinderella.
Absolutely beautiful! You are so talented! Thank you so much for the wonderful tutorial!
You. are. amazing.
amazing job!
AMAZING!!
I love the dress! But I have a suggestion – if you make the neckline wide enough and the sleeves out of the knit fabric or at least wider, you can keep the back closed and they can REALLY get in and out themselves, no help velcroing the back or anything. Even my 2-year old can do it herself. Like these dresses:
https://www.mycutedressups.com/Girl_Costumes/1/Girls_Traditional_Dresses.html
I'm totally digging making my own though!
oh my! This is beautiful!!!! You definitely saved A LOT of money. The ones at Disneyland in CA are around $45-55 each! And that doesn't even include tax! I can't wait to see what your little man is going to wear.
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How did you make the arm things and neck thing? -LOL! I can't think what they are called so I hope you know what I am asking!
Another AMAZING tutorial from the "Tutorial Queen"!! I'll be linking!
Awe-inspiring. I am still too scared to go without a pattern but you are starting to change my mind. Amazing work!
Wow, this is amazing! i wish I could sew like this. how much material did you end up buying. I guess I'm just wondering how many yards and such to make this dress.
OMG this is so cute! Wishing I had a little girl right about now. Will have to make it for one of my nieces instead, I guess :)
Wow. This is so amazingly impressive! And thank-you so much for having such a comprehensive tutorial – I can't wait to try this, it would make my little girl sooo happy! :)
Oh. My. Land. I am continually amazed at how talented you are! I can't believe you dreamt this up and free-styled it yourself! How long did it take??
That is just awesome! The smile on your little girl's face…you can almost hear the giggle of joy!
so cool! I can tell your little girl is in LOVE. my daughter would love this too! I'd have to bump up the size though now that she is in a 5-6. She's only 4 but takes after daddy I guess. This might just end up being in the Christmas box this year. Oh and BTW I made one of your stroller bags the other day. I took it to the zoo today and LOVED it! I'll have to send you a photo of it soon.
You are so talented!
You're amazing! It looks like an impossible task, but then when you break it down it looks very do-able. Thanks so much!
What a beautiful dress and a beautiful post! She looks so cute… My daughters had Cinderella Halloweens when they were young too! I love the picture where she is spinning around!
Holy Molie! I'm not ever gonna be able to make this, but just wanted to say "BRAVA" for the awesome job!! I bet your kiddos think you're a super-star :D
This is so beautiful! My daughter wants to be princess peach and I am sure this will come in very handy (when I get to it, I have to make her brother's first.) IF I said please a lot would you consider linking this up to my Halloween Costume linky party? please. www.corner–house.blogspot.com
You are amazing!! I look forward to your emails. I absolutely love Modern Birds Studio…Oh, the images I would love to have! I love the little boy on the tractor!! Reminds me of my little one. :) Also, I found them on facebook and "like" them there, too :) YAY, two entries for me!!
Thanks again for sharing all you do.
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Amazing!!! I love all the details of this dress and the accessories are perfect. When my little princess sees this she will be begging me for one.
Thank you so much for the step by step tutorial…it was fabulous and even though my princess is 11, your tutorial answered some of my sewing questions and made me braver!
kuddos, it looks great. I wanted to try and make one last year but couldn't think of how they did the white thingy's. I was also always wondering how much seam allowance I should add on for a button up back and this velco way. I'm assuming both would be 1 inch right?
That's a lot easier than I figured it would be. Thank you for the tutorial … My little girl ordered a Cinderella dress for her doll. Now I know how to do it!!
Caroline
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this is AMAZING! you are soo talented! wow!
brillant! you are AMAZING and extremely nice to share this! i love your blog and all the time you put into sharing your ideas with us all! your daughter is lucky :)
Absolutely the best Cinderella dress I have ever seen. Thanks for sharing the tutorial.
You did a fantastic job on that dress, and your daughter is a doll! Way to go!
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Unbelievable that you made that! She looks so darn cute in it. That is something to show off for sure, I bet she wants to wear it everyday. Great job!
That is absolutely fantastic! Thanks for sharing this tutorial. I'm filing it away for when my daughters are a little older.
What wonderful detail! You daughter is a lucky little girl!
Oh my gosh! That dress is STUNNING! You do such amazing work… what a lucky little girl to have such a talented mommy! Thanks for sharing!
Wow, you are friggin amazing.
you are an amazing seamstress. my daughter is dying to have a "blue princess dress" I wish I knew how to sew this well…maybe I'll have time to read this thoroughly someday and try it out!
I can't believe you didn't use a pattern, but completely free-handed this one! WOW! You should be really proud of it. I've got a rock star and a Wall-E costume to come up with…maybe I should get started!
kelli
This is amazing! Thanks for sharing! Makes me want a little girl! LOL! I featured you on my blog: https://aworldofcrafts.blogspot.com/2010/10/cinderella-is-that-you.html
That is absolutely amazing! I can't believe you sew such lovely dresses without a pattern!!!! WOW!!!!!
wow, this is amazing. well done. I've made your tinkerbell costume for my niece and she loves it, mite try this next.
I am overwhelmingly impressed! I cant beleive you made this!- its amazing! Please make one for my 4 year old too!!! , I just dont have your talent but am so greatful for the time you took to post the tutorial anyway, you've such a talent well done! xx
I may have just bought a ton of fabric at Joann's huge sale today to make this and a couple others. You inspired me!! Thank you so much for the great ideas.
A.MAZ.ING.!!! You are so talented–this is just beautiful! Thank you so much for all of your tutorials!! I, too, thought you would give the pattern number after looking at all of the pictures at the beginning of the post!
We went to Disneyworld in April I hate to come home. I could stay forever. Your Cinderella is beautiful she is my favorite of all the Princesses.
Great job on the dress.
Teresa
WOW! Incredible! One day when I learn to sew I'm totally going to be stalking your blog!! You make it look so easy! THANK you for the inspiration!
You are amazing! That's one happy little girl! I made the Sippy cup leash for our recent Disneyland trip and I loved it! No more dropped Sippy cups!
Wow! You're amazing. I might have to try this. Thanks for the great tutorial.