DIY Poppy Troll Costume Tutorial

Prepare the base shape

Take a sleeveless dress that fits your child and fold it in half lengthwise.

Fold your blue felt in half and place the folded dress on top, aligning it with the fold. This will be your guide for sizing.

Trace the shape of the dress onto the felt.

On one shoulder only, extend the shoulder line into a soft drop shape. This will become the signature flap on Poppy’s dress.

Cut the felt along the traced lines, including the shoulder flap. This piece will be the back of the dress.

Using this cut piece as a guide, trace and cut a second piece without the shoulder flap. Slightly widen the neckline on this piece.

This will be the front of the dress.

Place your light blue felt at the bottom of the front dress piece. It should cover about ¼ of the dress height.

Trace the bottom shape of the dress onto the light blue felt.

Using a cup or round object, draw wave shapes about one inch from the bottom edge. Aim for at least four rounded peaks.

Cut the wavy panel and set it aside.

Draw one large teardrop (about 1½ inches long) and one smaller teardrop (about 1 inch). Adjust slightly depending on dress size.

Cut these shapes out and use them as templates:

1 large teardrop and 2 small teardrops for each wave peak.

Arrange the teardrops on top of the light blue panel in a repeating pattern, then place the entire panel onto the front of the dress.

Pin everything in place.

Hand-sew the decorative pieces to the dress. The stitches do not need to be perfect.

To keep stitches less visible, insert the needle through the blue felt close to the edge of the light blue pieces, then back through the light blue felt.

Once finished, you should have a fully decorated front panel.

You can repeat this process on the back if you want, but it’s optional. I skipped it to save time.

Place the front and back pieces right sides together.

Stitch:

both side seams

the shoulder without the flap

Leave the flap shoulder open for now.

To attach the flap, align the cut edge with the original shoulder line so it looks like a continuation of the dress.

Stitch along that line using a simple cross stitch. (Watching the video here helps clarify this step.)

Using thick white yarn and a yarn needle, sew one large decorative stitch across the flap.

Make sure both ends meet on the wrong side of the fabric and secure with a knot.

Your Poppy Troll dress is now finished.

FIT NOTE: Since each body is different you might consider adding a zipper on one side. My girl is silly skinny so I didn’t need but some of the other moms added it and it looked great.

The wig is the final touch that really brings this Princess Poppy costume to life.

I explain the full wig process step by step in the video, including how I used a very inexpensive pink tulle skirt instead of tulle rolls.

Watch the video and feel free to ask questions in the comments if anything isn’t clear.

Here you go your Poppy Troll Costume is ready to rock!!!!