How to make a Maleficenta costume: with your own hands?

New Year's holidays always bring a lot of pleasant troubles. This is the season of matinees and carnivals, fun and fascinating preparation. And the choice of costumes for the New Year's children's masquerade is one of the most interesting activities. And if before the kids dreamed of becoming cartoon characters, and under the tree at the morning dance danced cubs, squirrels, rabbits, chanterelles and wolves, today the characters changed. The costume of the Maleficent, Batman, Spider-Man or Captain Hook superseded the beasts. But, as is known, modernity is the main coordinator of fashion, even with respect to New Year's dresses. Naturally, it is much more difficult to perform such a suit than a bunny or a snowflake. But if you put a maximum of zeal, then the original outfit will come out, from which the children's eyes will shine with delight. And for this it is worth trying!

Below we will talk about how to sew the costume Maleficenti own hands. We will consider the techniques of making a headdress, building a pattern of dress, the stages of decorating a dress and tips for choosing a material. And do not be intimidated by the complexity, the Maleficent's costume will necessarily be stunning, most importantly, to believe in oneself and listen to advice.

The image in detail

To make it easier to create an outfit, the whole image should be divided into parts: a hat, a raincoat, a dress and small accessories. Do not over-detail the Maleficent's costume, enough will be the basic elements for creating the right image.

So, the headdress should be with two horns, a cloak necessarily with a collar-stand, low on the neck and with beautiful angles at the face, and the dress can be either short or long - this is as the child wants. On the neck of the heroine of this tale - a beautiful leather necklace (if you can call him that), in his hand a staff with a magic ball of blue at the end. But then you need to decide whether it is worth it to do at all, because on the matinee the child will dance, dance dances and participate in contests, and the extra element in the hand will only interfere. Is that make it exclusively for more spectacular photos. But this detail of the image, like wings, will make a chic costume, but it's easier to buy than to make it yourself.

Selection of materials for the headgear

What is the Maleficent's costume without the inherent charming charms on the head? But from what to make this accessory? Two of the simplest options: to make a cap with horns or to glue these wonderful elements on the rim of the hair. In either case, the following materials will be needed:

• Basic fabric;
• Stabilizer for the form (it can be hard tulle, sintepon for packing or collar glue);
• A bezel or a pattern of a cap;
• A hot glue gun and silicone to it.

To make a Maleficent's suit with your own hands is not so difficult, as it may seem, the main thing is to include imagination and apply a little zeal!

How to make a horn on the rim

The process of making the horns includes several stages:

• The development of a template for cutting fabrics;
• Duplication of the base by the stabilizer;
• Padding filling;
• Attachment to the main part of the headgear.

A Maleficent's children's costume should not be too big with horns, but one should remember that too small a size will be associated with another character. In height it will be enough to 15 cm, at the base you can take 25-30 cm. So, to make a template, on the sheet of paper you should draw a rectangle with the corresponding sides. After that, it is necessary to simulate a little and display the shape of the horn bent to the center of the head, wide at the base and narrow at the end.

After this, the template is transferred to a cloth glued with a sealant or with a sticky hard fat. There is no need to hurry to cut out the part. The material is best folded in two by the inner side, mark the boundaries of the template with chalk or pencil, pound through the perimeter with needles and lay a machine stitch along the contour.

After that, the part can be cut back from the seam 0,5-0,7 cm. In the places of bends it is necessary to make notches in several places so that the allowances do not pull the product after turning.

Next, the horn should be filled with sintepon, although this is not necessary, because the stabilized fabric will keep its shape well.

At the next stage it is necessary to close the bottom of the finished horn, which is turned upside down. To do this, from the previously duplicated main cloth or felt, cut the circle and paste it into the open bottom of the product. After that, the details remain on the rim.

Horns on a hat

Maleficent's costume for a girl is best done with a rim, because a child will necessarily want a beautiful hairstyle with curls. However, the horns look no less interesting on the cap. To make it, you will need two measures: the girth of the head and the measurement from the neck under the chin and to the nape of the neck through the crown.

The drawing should be a rectangle with sides ½ of the first measure and ½ of the second measurement. In the upper left corner on the vertical side, which will later be a hole for the face, you need to go down by 1.5 cm and from this point make a smooth rounding so that the cap fits well to the child's forehead. Also, such manipulations should be performed in the occipital region, beginning from the vertex and ending with the base of the neck.

After the pattern is ready, two pieces of the main fabric are cut along it , stitched along the middle seam and the open cut of the cap is processed. After the oblique bake, cut from the same material or purchased, the bottom cut is processed, leaving enough strings for the strings. The final stage is the joining of the horns. They can be planted on hot glue or sewed by hand.

Selection of material for basic clothing

How to make a Maleficent costume with your own hands, so that it is not as gloomy as the image of the heroine of this fairy tale? Of course, beating ever more rainbow colors. No, we are not talking about a motley and bright solution, such as pink or yellow! But deep blue, turquoise, emerald, rich burgundy - this is what you need! Especially gorgeous will look velvet or velor with its overflow and elegance. In addition, this knitted soft cloth, pleasant to the body, in which the child will be comfortable.

How to sew a dress

Sewing the Maleficent's costume with his own hands, broken into elements, is very simple. For example, making a dress does not take much time.

To build a dress pattern it will be enough to take the child's T-shirt, put it directly on the fabric, trail along the contour, then measure the length of the dress and extend the drawing to the desired width along the side cuts. Sleeves are cut out on the same principle. They can also be expanded downwards or made tails.

Collect all the details in a single unit, you can use the machine without using an overlock or zigzag, as the jersey does not crumble. First, they sew the shoulder seams and treat the throat with an oblique bake, after sewing the sleeves and being taken for the side seams. The final stage is the processing of open sections, which can be tucked, tuned or processed with an oblique bake.

How to sew a skirt

The costume of Maleficent for children will look great with a lush skirt-tutu or skirt-tutu. For the manufacture of similar products will need tulip. And here you need to consider your own skills, since sewing a skirt with a lot of scarf requires at least a minimum of experience. But the skirt-pack can be made completely without using sewing accessories. Here you need an elastic band, a couple of meters of tulle and scissors.

The fabric should be cut into pieces equal to the double length of the product + 2 cm, and then cut the workpieces across the stripes with a width of 10 cm. The elastic should be taken over the waistline of the child, preferably at least 1.5 cm wide. It should be dense And retain their properties even after a strong stretching. After you need to impose on it a strip of tulle, fastening with a loop.

This skirt will look good with any T-shirt, worn under the suit's coat.

Choosing a cloth for a raincoat

Cloak - an integral element of the image and deserves special attention. How to make the Maleficent's costume more spectacular? Of course, choose a chic fabric for a raincoat!

Black brocade will be an ideal option, but if the budget is limited, you can stay on the usual lining fabric, which also shines well and overflows. You can also consider options with a shawl that fits well in a suit.

Maleficent, whose photo will be the point of support in creating the image, has a rather voluminous wardrobe, the main part of which is made up of leather apparels. Its cloak is also sewed from a heavy fabric with inlays of genuine leather. But for the carnival, you can deviate slightly from the image and use for this element's production thinner materials such as a mesh or silk.

Cloak with collar

The manufacture of this product does not require any special templates. It will take only one measure: the girth of the child's neck. To it it is necessary to add 5 sm, and it is possible to start work. First, a rectangle should be cut from the fabric, equal to the length and width of the cloak at the bottom. Then you can start cutting the collar.

Here it will be necessary to fantasize a little, depicting the original style of the gate in protruding long corners. To do this, on the sheet of paper, you need to put half of the removed measurement, draw a slightly lowered back of the collar (about 3-4 cm high), rising to the corners by 8-10 cm. You can decorate one such ledge or two on the corner, following one another.

Then again, you will need to use a hard fat (for the durability of the product). The fabric is laid with tulle and folded in half so that the pattern with the turn is placed. The pattern is drawn so that it is in full size, after the contour is stitched, leaving the lower cut open. Further details are cut out with an allowance of 0.5-0.7 cm, make incisions in the corners, turn out and steam off with an iron.

After that, it remains only to connect the raincoat with the collar, after having processed the edges of the canvas. To prevent the threads from falling off, they can be scorched over a candle, tucked and tuned or swept over with an overlock. It all depends on the material selected.

Decoration

Maleficent's costume for Halloween or a New Year's holiday is the best solution for a spectacular appearance in public. Decorating it with a rain or making a foil pendant with a pumpkin, you can stylize the outfit for a certain event. The addition of the image will be bracelets and a black ribbon around the neck. For a more chic dress or t-shirt you can embroider with stones and paillettes.

How to make a staff

The magic staff can also be attributed to an important detail of the image. It can be made using a conventional stick or a plastic pipe of small diameter. For production you need a wide satin ribbon, a hot glue gun, a beautiful fabric for the ball and a sintepon for filling it.

First you need to make the top of the staff. To do this, a circle is cut from the material, it is gathered around the perimeter of the thread, filled with a sintepon and tightened with a thread. After this element is glued to a pipe or stick.

Then it's up to the winding. It starts at the top, hiding the place of joining the base and the ball. The tape should be fixed with hot glue every 5 cm so that no gaps appear. At the very bottom, having melt the edge, it is firmly fixed.

The above information on how to make a Maleficent's costume will help create a unique image for the holiday and give the child a great mood.