I actually think that by hiding the pin heads on the inside of the belt, it ended up looking like an intentional style choice. And since I only plan to wear this Halloween costume a couple times and mostly in the dark, I didn’t think anyone would notice (and in fact, no one has). The hood has beautiful drape in the back when down and is like a parachute of sorts when on the head. It doesn’t matter if the seam here gets a little messed up, so long as the sleeve is entirely attached.

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I repeated the process of laying down strips of fabric tape to one side of the sleeve (this time in longer pieces, like a few inches at a time) so that one side was entirely lined with tape. Yet when my son decided he wanted to be Kylo Ren for Halloween, something compelled me to decide that our whole family would dress in Star Wars costumes. I am still working on Margui’s costume (thank God this year she is not a princess or a fairy but a witch! Once all the seams were taped, I put the costume back on and paraded proudly around the house in it. NOTE: Depending on how thick your sheet is, you may want to wear a white tank top and leggings underneath.Going with my philosophy of not sweating the small stuff too much in making this costume, I decided it’d take me less time to cut the bottom carefully, than hem it up with tape. It looks easy and inexpensive to make too, you can make it out of a white sheet or cotton fabric you have lying around the home. I used her belt as my inspiration for this belt but I actually printed off a pattern for the silver medallions from Craftiness is not Optionalbecause they perfectly fit my belt pattern! Push sleeves of the lining into dress sleeves and tack the lining to the dress at shoulder and underarm seams if you wish. Iron on the fusible interfacing to one side of the collar on the wrong side of the fabric if you are using interfacing.

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My husband and I have a son and baby daughter (whom I was 9 months pregnant with when this photo was taken! Ditto with the arm length, which I finalized before taping the inside seams so that I wouldn’t have to do one bit of extra work with the fabric tape. If you can pin the hood to the dress while the recipient is wearing the dress that is helpful but not necessary. This step is much easier said than done, and was by far the hardest part of this DIY No Sew Easy Princess Leia costume. Then I went back and folded segments of the other edge, peeled back one portion of paper at a time, and pressed the edges together, making sure that all the sticky tape inside was covered by fabric.Note that you don’t need to line up the side edges perfectly since you’ll be cutting them off anyway! You don’t have to be super careful about cutting on a straight line here as the rough edges will eventually be hidden in the seam.