My cousin asked me to make a fairy costume for her baby, who will turn one in September. She’s having a fairy-theme party for her.
I started with a basic baby sundress pattern, and, um, went from there. I used a crinkly pink poly-nylon (as in, This Will Melt When You Put Your Big Stupid Iron On It, Sara) for the bodice and overskirt. The edges of the pointy bits are finished with a narrow zigzag because I have no idea where my serger is at the moment. Besides, I wanted a lighter finish, and the fabric isn’t especially ravelly.
The ends of the points have iridescent pearls and crystals sewn to them. I checked with my cousin to see if this was ok, and she says the baby isn’t really into pulling on stuff and eating it at this point.

The dress is underlined (on the bodice) and lined with lavender silk shantung that I happened to have lying around. Yes, I have that kind of life…just piles and piles of silk everywhere. Stupid remnant bin at stupid Thai Silks is my stupid downfall.
The skirt is made of six layers of tulle, with iridescent sequins on the second layer. I picked that tip up from Bridal Couture – the sequins are better protected if they’re under one layer of tulle, and it doesn’t cut down on the sparkle. Indeedy.

To glue them on, I used a q-tip with the head cut off, dipped the tip in glue, and then held it up to the back of the tulle while I pressed a sequin to the front. I could get several sequins per dip, and there wasn’t any mess. It doesn’t take a lot of glue to hold a sequin.
The wings are just iridescent wrap. They’re nowhere near as elaborate as the ones I did on my last fairy adventure, but I think they work. I just cut the wrap into an upper wing shape and a lower wing shape, and then stitched 2 layers of each of them together in the center. Then I crinkled the wrap up so it’s more sparkly, and also so that I didn’t have to worry about crushing them when I packed the whole thing up to send it to Tennessee. They’re attached to the costume via a tie on the back. I hope they’re good enough. I freak myself out about this stuff sometimes. Still, I think that for someone who is going to be sitting down most of the time (because that’s what ya do when you’re barely a year old) these are going to be the most comfortable option.

The headpiece and the flower trim on the dress came from little bridal flower picks. The headpiece is just flowers wired to pipecleaners, with some twisted-wire bead thingies pointing up here and there. I wrapped the whole thing in ribbon and made some streamers on the back. I cut the heads off some of the flowers and sewed them onto the dress with a sequin and a seed bead in the center.
She’s going to be the cutest little fairy!