Princess Mononoke and Soot Sprites Dresses

Playing along with Sew Geeky's Episode 6: Studio Ghibli!

We are huge Hayao Miyazaki fans in this house and I have made lots of costumes for the girls, many Ponyo's and some special orders through my Etsy Shop!

This time I decided to make something a little different...I have been itching to do some screen printing so I chose some of our favourite little Ghibli critters to print and created dresses for the girls!

Princess Mononoke Dress

I made a rough screen print of the Tree Spirits from the film and filled in the blanks with hand painting. 

Next I stencilled some red paint to mirror Princess Mononoke's war paint.

To make the dress I used Rae's Geranium Dress pattern and added a little hint of Jiji from Kiki with the black cat buttons on the back!

Totoro Soot Sprite Dress

To make this print I went terribly old school, made a potato stamp and went nuts! I added the eyes with the end tip of a paint brush. I wanted to make it look like when the girls discovered the Soot Sprites in Totoro.

To make the dress I used The Cottage Mama A-Line Dress Pattern from her book Sew Classic Clothes for Girls. I used the polka dot fabric to look like more soot sprites and added a touch of red just because I love it!

I also love how the red, white and black colour theme ties the dresses together.

I do not love how the Princess Mononoke border got a little washed out after a cleaning emergency...but these things happen...luckily it wasn't as bad as I feared (I thought I might lose the whole dress!)

The girls absolutely love them...and had a great time dressing up with the Princess Mononoke war paint (food colouring!)

Thanks to Sew Chibi and Max California for the invite!

Click each picture below to check out the stars of this episode of Sew Geeky!