Over the past two weeks, my mom and I have worked diligently on my Princess Half Marathon costume and I’m so excited it’s finally complete!
Without further ado, here it is!
Several weeks ago, my mom was gracious enough to accompany me to Hobby Lobby to help me pick out materials.
We decided on red sparkle fabric for a cape and stiff white interfacing for the collar. I also purchased a cheaper white material to cover the interfacing. My mom did the bulk of sewing on the collar and cape so I don’t have any tips or advice there.
The sleeves were hand stitched by yours truly. Until this point, I didn’t even know I could hand stitch in a moderately straight line. I pretty much surprised myself. Actually, my original intention was to use hot glue and Heat N Bond. I’m really glad I chose needle and thread instead!
The sleeves were made from red and light blue wired ribbon. I also used a yellow non-wired ribbon for the bottom.
For even edges, I folded the ends of the ribbon and hand stitched them onto the sleeves, then trimmed the extra. (Seen Below)
Top/front side of the sleeve
Bottom/underneath the stitch
I added this yellow non-wired ribbon because the wires from the undersides of the red/blue ribbon were poking my arm – the addition of the yellow ribbon solved my problem and was the perfect pop of color! (Don’t laugh at my stitching…it was getting close to midnight and I was starting to see double!)
The sparkle tiara iron-on was purchased at Hobby Lobby and ironed onto the front of my shirt.
Speaking of shirt, I purchased this blue Champion shirt from Academy. It was on sale for $5.95 (because one of the sleeves was coming unraveled). Image my surprise when it rang up at the counter for $2.95. YES, TWO dollars and 95 cents! Can’t beat that!!
The compression sleeves for my legs are made by Zensah.
The bow for my hair is a red sparkle Sweaty Band and I attached a piece of wired red ribbon to tie in a bow.
My skirt is a Sparkle Skirt in Lemon Crush.
The apple was cut out of felt while following a basic apple pattern found online. Originally, I wanted to carry a real apple. I changed my mind when I realized that would be next to impossible. At first, I was going to try and find a stuffed toy apple, then decided on a felt one that could be pinned onto my skirt.
…and there you have it! The finished product!
I kinda don’t want to take it off. :0)
I can’t go without saying a huge THANK YOU to my mom who helped tremendously in the making of this costume!!
If you’re interested in dressing in costume for your next Disney race but don’t have any ideas, check out this handy guide.
Are you running Princess in costume? Do you even like to run in costume? If you’ve revealed your costume so far, who are you running as?
