DIY Poppy Troll Costume Tutorial

Take your pretty dress and fold it in half lengthwise.

Fold your blue felt enough so your folded dress will fit fold with the fold.

Draw your dress shape on the felt.

Then hand-draw the shoulder flap. Just extend one of the shoulders giving kind of a drop shape.

Cut the felt and cut off on the shoulder’s flap. If you see it in front of you should cut off the left shoulder flap.

This would be your back part of the dress.

Repeat the process using your already cut piece but without any flaps. This will be your front part. Here I suggest cutting off a bit of the neck so it’s a bit more open.

Then place your light blue felt at the bottom of the front part of the dress. It should take a maximum 1/4 of the height of the dress.

Draw onto the light blue felt the shape of your dress.

Then using your cup draw the waves about over an inch from the bottom edge. Try to have at least 4 peaks.

Cut and set aside.

Now let’s practice a bit more hand-drawn. Draw One large drop about 1,5 Inches long {more or less depending on your dress size} and one smaller drop, 1 inch or so. It should look like shown below.

Cut your drops and then use them as a pattern to make 1 large and 2 smaller for each peak.

Once you have them all cut, place your light blue piece on top of the front part of the dress and place your drops following the following pattern.

Pin them in place.

Hand-sew each piece to the dress. It doesn’t have to be perfect stitches.

I made them as invisible as I could by inserting the needle on the blue felt but as close as I can from the light blue piece and pushing it back through the light blue piece and so on.

When you are done sewing you should have something like showing on the blog.

You can repeat this process on the back if you would like. As I said I was short on time so I left it blank.

Now put your front and back pieces right side together and stitch the right and left side and only the non-flapped shoulder.

Finally, stitch the flap. You should still have your shoulder line drawn so what I did was putting the cut shoulder end right on that line but as if it continued the felt. Hope this makes sense. {Check the video where you can see better what I mean}.

Then cross stitch along the shoulder line as follows.

The last touch is the white stitch on the flap. Using a thick yarn and a yarn needle, make a large stitch making sure both ends meet on the wrong side of the flap. Tie with a knot on the back.

There you go! Your Poppy Troll Dress is ready!

This is the final touch to make this Poppy Troll Costume awesome!

Poppy troll pink wig made out of a tulle skirt but it's only explained in the video on the blog. So feel free to watch it and let me know your thoughts or if you have any questions.