{"id":54592,"date":"2016-06-12T00:25:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T14:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypoppet.com.au\/makes\/?p=54592"},"modified":"2019-10-22T23:48:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T12:48:38","slug":"diy-princess-bubblegum-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypoppet.com.au\/makes\/diy-princess-bubblegum-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Princess Bubblegum Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWe are heading to Oz Comic-Con tomorrow. We had a fun time last year when Emma dressed as Raven from Teen Titans<\/a>, and after many, many weeks of deliberation, she finally settled on Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Time. Princess Bubblegum (PB for short) is made of bubblegum (hence the pink), and is the ruler of the candy kingdom. Not just a pretty face, Emma likes her because she is a scientist and inventor “She’s really smart mum!”. Ok, I’ve been told.<\/p>\n

If you are looking for the Princess Bubblegum Crown instructions scroll down<\/strong>, but first let me tell you about how I put the costume together.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

I agreed to make a Princess Bubblegum costume with the thought that I could just buy a pink dress from the op-shop and add a lilac collar and sash, but there were no pink dresses to be found so I had to make one from scratch.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

I used a couple of vintage patterns, one for the bodice and another for the puffy sleeves. Neither had a peter pan collar so I drafted that myself. It wasn’t perfect but will a little cajoling, it’s passable.<\/p>\n

Fabric shopping was a challenge, Miss Emma is very exacting and the only fabric  that matched the colour perfectly was a polyester knit at $20 a meter so I bought just 1.3m in hopes that it would suffice. Luckily it was wide and fairly reversible, so I did some creative cutting and only had a few scraps to spare.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

So after much cutting, fiddly zip inserting, sewing and hand stitching, we have one very fancy Princess Bubblegum dress that meets her royal highness’s approval.<\/p>\n

\"Princess<\/p>\n

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\nWhat do you think? Did I do a good job? I’m pretty pleased at how it turned out, even though it looks simple it was quite a lot of work, 8-9 hours for the dress alone. The crown was much easier (thank goodness).<\/p>\n

If you aren’t a good sewist here are some ready made dresses that would work great for this costume.<\/strong><\/p>\n