Sew a Mary Poppins dress costume with this fantastic tutorial by Jess, from Craftiness is not Optional. What a lovely Jolly Holiday dress costume! There was never a cuter Mary Poppins. Perfect for dress up, parties or Halloween!
She looks pretty darn cute in it, I’ve gotta say. Of course, the circle skirt is very spin-worthy. I love the trims-on the sleeves, and cummerbund. With bows on the skirt. 🙂
So, I used this tutorial for the basic dress construction. I used sheer fabric for the sleeves and lengthened them. (and added trim) Left off the waistband, but made a cummerbund. (instructions below)
I made a simple “bib” by sewing two rectangular pieces of my sheer material right sides together, on 3 sides. Turned right side out, and sewed closed the bottom, turning raw edges in. Then I gathered it down the middle, sewed it to the dress, and then tacked it down at each corner with a few stitches, and added the ribbon bow.
Now for a few pics and notes about how I made the cummerbund.
First I cut out two pieces shaped like this, that came to a point in the middle, and were wide enough to fit around her waist. I ended up cutting some off in the end, but that’s easy to do later.
On one piece, I laid out 5 pieces of ric rac like so, and then sewed them down, sewing straight down the middle.
Then I took some pre-made piping, and pinned it along each edge, with the piping towards the middle.
I clipped the piping at the bottom there a little bit, to fit better around the little point.
Then, using a zipper foot, I sewed AS CLOSE as I could to the piping. Like, really close.
Then I pinned the other red piece right sides together, and sewed (with my zipper foot still) close to the piping again. It wasn’t hard to tell where it was, I just manipulated the fabric a bit so it would stand out better. Leave the ends open.
No pics of the rest, but I turned it right side out, checked my piping to see if I needed to restitch anything, and then pressed it. Then I figured out where I needed to place my velcro to fit the Sadester. I cut it where I needed, serged the ends, turned them under and stitched over the ends, then sewed on my velcro. All done!
Hope you like it! Happy Trick or Treating!
Here are a couple more dress up projects I’ve done!
