The brood is super into Moana this year, so it made picking a holiday card theme pretty easy. It’s the first year I made all four costumes from scratch though, so it took a while. Thankfully they were all fairly simple.
Photography by the always amazing, Jeff Kuo. Photoshop and graphic design by Doris and Cheryll.
Sorry for the delay getting the rest of this tutorial up! Getting our holiday card done ate my brain for the last 2 months. If you missed it, part 1 of this tutorial is here. Ok, so back to making Moana’s top…
I made the top as a tube top with a shirred back piece.
Aimee recently created an adorable cat mermaid pillow on Spoonflower. I offered to be her tester and while I was sewing up the pillow, I took photos for a quick tutorial.
(I will finish the Moana costume tutorial. A pillow tutorial is faster to do, so I’m posting this first.)
I’m making Moana costumes this year for Halloween, so I thought I’d do a series of Moana costume tutorials on how I am modifying the official Disney costume.
To start with, I decided to re-make the top. I really like how the skirt looks, but I don’t like how the top requires straps to stay up and the top edge looks wrong. I figured it can’t be that hard to make a new top that is actually a tube top and has a shirred back for fit.
Today’s tutorial is on how I created the fabric for the top.
I needed pattern weights so I was doing some research into making or buying them. I found some really cute polymer clay ones on Etsy but I am world’s biggest klutz (like I run into walls on a regular basis), and anything made from sculpey is pretty much doomed around me. Then I remembered these cute plastic macaron boxes I had seen on Amazon that I could turn into pattern weights. Those would stand a good change of surviving an unexpected trip to the floor!
If you’re interested in making a set for yourself, here’s a super fast tutorial for making macaron pattern weights…