This year a long viking looking cape was in order. See my peacock jacket here from last year. And it’s such a shame to hide the costumes under winter jackets, that’s why I usually create my costumes to accommodate either extra layers or some sort of cape or jacket. Living in Canada going out on Halloween is hit and miss with the weather. I then made a complicated french braid to finish the look. Unfortunately it’s a bit short so I purchased a ponytail extension from Ardene, and then removed the hair from the hair clip and bobby pinned it into my daughters hair. At either end of the band I sewed in a bit of leather shoelace.įortunately my daughter has similar hair colour to Astrid. I then attached a series of brass snaps, then glued the band closed. I cut a 1″ strip out of some left over suede. They are essentially long tubes which I then sewed a couple stitches in to keep the thumb separated. I use the short fir to line the wraps for warmth, suede on the outside and long fir for the trim. Sewed two ovals and finished them with two straps of black elastic on the back. Once cut, I then made them look old by dabbing with black acrylic paint and wiping off. Notice each strip is smaller than the last with the most outside strip being the one that curves inward. I then cut out shapes like the ones below. I had some fairly thick interfacing which I ironed on to the silver pleather I purchased, to give the armour a bit of stiffness. I would then advise (to make sure the left and right sides are equal), cutting two of only one of your front shoulder pieces, and folding your back piece in half and cutting from a folded piece of fabric. The good thing about a paper pattern is you can keep cutting and taping until the fit is right, and you probably have a live model that you can tape it to like I did. I have shown here what the basic shapes should look like. Click here to download SmallCape_SewingInstructions. I made a paper pattern out of some newspaper, to get a better idea of size for the back, the neck pieces and hood. We then gave them two coats of acrylic silver paint, and burnished them with a paper towel dipped in black acrylic paint, which we dabbed on then quickly wiped off.Īfter I glued them on with the Weldbond (after the Gorilla Glue didn’t work), and instructed my daughter she was to lift the back flaps of the skirt whenever sitting down at school. After we molded our items, we let them sit for 24 hours to dry. You will need 4 spikes per flap from small to large in size as well as one bird skull per flap, and two extras for the shoulder armour. The kids and I had a great time making these. It’s very easy to work with (no mess, no cooking). I then used a leather shoelace to close the skirt.īird skulls and spikes: I made these out of the Crayola Molding Magic. All you need is a hammer (I was at the cottage with no hammer so I used a rock, very Viking style of me!). I purchased a small package of them, and it came with a hole punch tool as well as the tool needed to finish the eyelet. I was surprised how easy eyelets were to install. To measure for flaps, measure my daughters waist (over the fir skirt) then divide up into equal parts. I made the waist band 2″ high, and the flaps 8″ long making the skirt 10″ long in total. Because it’s pleather, it doesn’t fray so there was no need for sewing. For the leather part of the skirt, I cut it all out of one piece. The fur part of the skirt was my Joe Fresh neck warmer from last year, but sewing a fur mini skirt should be fairly easy. It was super easy, I basically sewed two rectangles together leaving space for arms at the side, head for the top and torso out the bottom. I chose a fairly thick knit for the shirt. Added strips of fake leather to the fronts to emulate laces. I essentially sewed leg warmers made out of the two types of fur to go over the boots so that the boots would be reuseable. Silver and black acrylic paint ( Dollarama $1 ea).Clip on long pony tail ($7.50 Ardene Outlet).Crayola Molding Magic, white (2 pkg., Staples $3.95/pkg.).Large 2″ Curtain Grommet (or something similar Fabricland).Brown boots ( Joe Fresh $19, but will use all winter).1 yard, Fabricland $8.00/yard only purchase if you want to sew long cape) 1 1/4 yard, Fabricland $7.50/yard if you want to sew long cape, 1/2 yard if you don’t) But of course who needs a year, when you can get it done in one long weekend right? So I had a whole year to mull it over and plan. So as I was putting the finishing touches on her costume last year she informed me she wanted to be Astrid for this year. When she commits to a Halloween costume she doesn’t change her mind.
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