The Bodice, Dress pt. 2
once the skirt was finally constructed I started to build up the bodice. like I already mentioned before, I used the Simplicity Cinderella Live Action dress pattern and used the Fairy Godmother bodice to make it. I ended up using a TON of blue silk that my wallet wasn't happy about. I think in all I used around 9 ish yards of the Prussian blue and about 5ish of the Dark blue. The sleeve on the dress was my first attempt at making a makeshift sleeve pattern and it turned out really well in my opinion. so I cut the sleeves out from the dark satin and pinned it all in place so that it would have puffy sleeves like in the picture of the Ice Queen. after attaching both puffs to the sides of the dress and the sleeves my dress began to start looking like the picture. the picture above is the dress with the two underskirts making it look a lot fuller. the hoopskirt has three rings but if you can get more, it would probably make your dress look a lot fuller. in the Pi