Thank you for your comments and glad you appreciate my tutorials! Yeah, since it’s almost a year of Frozen mania since I bought my accessories, some places have sold out or changed. Very glad you found the same wig since it is perfect, very comfortable to wear, and it’s a very good quality wig! I almost want to buy a second wig so I can keep them styled differently. 😉

I would love to see photos of your finished outfit when you’re finished! 🙂

First of all I want to say that I am thoroughly impressed and grateful that you have made these tutorials! I have been trying my best to do everything completely on my own without any help, but I’ve hit a wall on a few things and your tutorials are perfect for what I needed!

Especially the ice shingles… I spent hours cutting apart blue iridescent circle shaped large sequins to make into rectangles. They worked for what I wanted, but they wouldn’t stick to the fabric no matter what glue I used! Your idea is so much better and I’m so glad I came across this.

The crown is also a wonderful idea! I originally was going to make mine out of thermoplastic or foam, but my main issue was that I wasn’t sure how it would stay on my head! The yogurt container is a BRILLIANT idea that I never would’ve thought of!

The cape still troubles me though… I don’t have any kind of machine like that and I don’t know anyone who does. I’m not a fan of how the painted on snowflakes look, but I don’t have much money left to have someone else print the flakes. I intended on doing a little bit larger cape than yours, but not quite as large as hers really should be. I need help 🙁 I can’t figure out anything and no one online seems to be willing to share information on how they’ve done it.

Lastly, I want to thank you for posting that wig! The ones I have been looking at were MINIMUM $40… And I was looking at lace front and I just wasn’t sure if it would turn out the way I wanted. Unfortunately the US site for that seller was completely out of stock of that item (and also the aqua shirt you put a link to, but that’s okay because I made my own). I’m not surprised they’re both sold out since your tutorial is so amazing! BUT, luckily for me… the seller has a UK amazon site as well. It was free shipping, and it was only $17 on the UK site! So thank you so much! The wig was my biggest expense and therefore my biggest stress, so thank you thank you thank you for posting it! And the snowflakes are just adorable and perfect!

Over all, I adore your work and I appreciate that you’ve posted it!

Thank you!

I should have mentioned that your whole dress was amazing. Not just the cape. :-). I have seen a lot of ways to do the bodice as well and my daughter and I definitely thought your bodice was perfect! I appreciate your kind and generous guidance. 🙂

I had $10 free at the Silhouette store that came with my machine package, so I found several snowflake templates I liked for about $4. I arranged them in different sizes to fit in the maximum mat cutting around so I had less waste. I did design my own snowflake to be the large lacy one around the bottom edge of the cape, but the rest of the stock snowflakes were enough variety for me.

The sheer shimmer fabric is too thin and too crinkly texture to try to cut on its own. I ironed my clear double-stick fusible interfacing to my sheer white fabric before cutting. Even both layers fused together wasn’t very thick so I only had the blade depth at 1 and I could still see cut marks in my mat. My biggest problems were how sticky the mat was, and peeling the interfacing backing off first. If I peeled the interfacing backing off before cutting, then stuck that side on a freshly sticky mat, I couldn’t get them off after cutting. I cut several sheets with the backings on, and after cutting I could only get some of the backings off. The ones that still had the plastic on the back, I didn’t use the iron, just glitter paint around all the edges and they worked fine. After cutting several sheets, the mat was less sticky, but there were a lot of fabric threads stuck to it, which were getting tangled with the blade. By then I had a lot of lint up inside the blade too, so I followed the instructions to blow those out. I stopped for the night and washed the mat with a nylon scrubber to get all the threads off, then let it dry. The next night it was much less sticky, enough that the backless interfacing stuck perfectly! That lasted the rest of my snowflakes ok, but when I was trying to cut the rest of my scraps into snowflakes, the stickiness was so far gone that the blade scooted the fabric around and chewed up snowflakes. I tried some spray adhesive but I guess I couldn’t get complete enough coverage, since when it tried to cut a spot that wasn’t stuck down enough, I got a chewed snowflake scooting around.

The other issue I had was that the interfacing had a hard time sticking completely to the sheer fabric because of the crinkly texture, so there were sometimes “air bubbles” in the middle somewhere, and that would chew up a snowflake or two when the fabric pulled up into the blade. As long as the fabric around it stayed stuck to the mat, it was just the top sheer layer that was chewed, but sometimes it was bad enough to scoot the whole mat off track, so I had to stop that cutting job.

This was my very first cutting machine project, so I expected some trial and error, and I wasn’t disappointed! 😛 But after all my evenings of cutting, I had 65 good iron-on snowflakes and the large “arms” with snowflake holes for my cape, plus enough of the plastic-backed snowflakes worked for two more girl-size capes who attended my Frozen sing along party, and then there were still plenty I cut from the leftover laminated ice bodice fabric for hair snowflakes for me, a headband and hair clips for the girls, and still probably 20 or so for Christmas decorations.

Another thing…after one wearing of about 7 hours, I had some snowflakes starting to separate from the cape. When I finished the girls’ capes and had to use the crystal glitter paint around all the edges since I couldn’t iron those, I thought it looked better anyway, plus would be more secure, so I went back and added crystal glitter paint around the edges of everything on my cape too. That held up great for the Frozen sing along party, and hopefully will do fine at Disneyland for Halloween. 🙂

Good luck! I would love to see how your cape & dress turn out!

Thanks, Lisa