The suit of the chess queen with his own hands

For the first time the chess queen became a fairy tale character thanks to Lewis Carroll, who chose her as a strict tutor and examiner for her Alice. Since then, both adult girls and girls are happy to choose the image of this character for appearance on New Year carnivals.

The suit of the chess queen is difficult to make by oneself. However, if you have the skills of sewing, and you have a great desire to bring joy to your child, then after spending several hours, you can make an outfit that will allocate your baby among the participants of the New Year's holiday.

Suit of the chess queen for the girl (variant No. 1): materials

To tailor this outfit you will need:

• 1 m white and black satin or other shiny fabric;
• 10 cm of black and white mesh;
• A bit of non-woven fabric for gluing the fabric;
• Black paint for batik.

If you do not have a ready-made pattern of a dress with a detachable waist, then you can take as a template for the top a tank-sleeveless shirt of the appropriate size.

Carnival costume of the chess queen: master class

The sewing of the carnival costume is made in the following order:

• Sew an ordinary black skirt-half-sun;
• From a white fabric, using as a pattern T-shirt-sleeveless, cut out the details of the top of the dress;
• Sew them together;
• Process the gate and sew a frill-collar of a black mesh (you can make a two-layer to make it more magnificent);
• Chess pieces and a crown are cut out of cardboard, which will be used as patterns;
• They sew a white apron long with a skirt;
• It is sewn or left to hang freely, tied up behind;
• Draw an apron on the cages and paint in checkerboard pattern with black paint for the batik;
• Connect the top of the dress with a skirt;
• Cut out the sleeves-lanterns and paint them with black paint to make strips;
• Sew the sleeves to the dress.

To make the outfit lush, use the ready-made lower skirts. If they are not, sew themselves from a grid of white color, preferably in several layers.

Decoration

The costume of the chess queen should be decorated with applique. For this:

• Using the templates of chess pieces, cut them out of a white satin and from a non-woven fleece;
• Heat the iron;
• Put a flizelin part on the hem, and on top of the same fabric;
• Iron with an iron, putting a clean sheet of "printer" paper;
• In the same way, the queen's figurine is applied on the front of the chest.

Crown

The suit of the chess queen will be incomplete without a corresponding headdress.

You can use a traditional crown, for example, carved on a pattern presented above, and decorated with pieces of foil, golden braid, artificial pearls, sparkles, etc.

Alternatively, it can be suggested to make a chessboard from cardboard, paste some figures on it and wear it on the head, fixing it on the rim.

Outfit based on the finished dress

The costume of a chess queen can be made by altering old clothes. For example, if your daughter has a bored white or black dress, then you can turn it into a carnival outfit by decorating.

Consider the option presented in the photo below. When creating it:

• A black velvet dress cut at the waist with white lace cuffs and a collar;
• A golden crown was cut from the golden foil and pasted onto the chest;
• Calculated the size of one square for the decor (the length of the hem was divided by 16);
• Made paper patterns 3-4 chess pieces;
• Cut out 16 white squares of the correct size;
• Stitched on the hem in a checkerboard pattern;
• Made application of chess pieces as described above;
• Made a crown of golden foil.

A simple option: what will be required

The suit of the chess queen, whose photo is presented below, can be made much faster than the previous one. For this it is required to have at hand:

• Tulle white and black;
• Non-woven fleece;
• Any black cloth (you can take old clothes of black color);
• Unnecessary white turtleneck;
• White fluffy lower skirt.

Dressmaking

The simple suit of a chess queen is sewn as follows:

• Tear the seam of the sleeve of the turtleneck and cut it to the shoulder, so that 2 pieces are obtained;
• Sew on 2 triangles of black tulle;
• Cut out the figures for the application of fabric and non-woven fabric;
• Sew a white multilayer skirt of tulle;
• Paste the figures in the same way as described above, but set a low temperature on the iron and necessarily put paper;
• Cut out of black fabric and sew a belt of such length that it can be tied with a bow;
• On the turtleneck's chest stick an image of some chess piece or crown, using a non-woven web.
• Make a crown of paper in black.

Complex variant

Do you want your daughter to look like a real chess queen? The costume (New Year's) will be easier to make if you find a fabric with an appropriate pattern.

The basis of a chic dress in the style of the Victorian era is a lush skirt of several layers. It is made of cloth with a chess design and a white satin, painted with figures of the queen. To apply them, you need to make a stencil from a thick cardboard and fill it with a black paint for the batik.

When the skirt is ready, sew the upper part, which should be planted in the figure, and join them together, supplementing with basque.

From white cloth cut out sleeves-lanterns, and from chess - a collar with a lining from a cardboard that it beautifully "stood", as at the present royal person.

Than to complement a suit

A queen, even a chess player, needs shoes. To make it, you can take any shoes black or white and decorate accordingly. For example, from a cardboard 2 details in the form of small bows are cut out. They are pasted with foil or self-adhesive paper of golden color. Then from the satin ribbon they make small size bows and connect them with a paper buckle or a beautiful button. The decor is fixed on the shoes with double-sided tape.

The costume can also be complemented with a mask. It is made of black velvet paper and decorated with rhinestones or artificial pearls of white color. The fan in the "chess" design will also look beautiful.

If the desire to sew is not lost, you can add a raincoat to the dress. It is cut in the form of a quarter of a circle and slightly collected in the folds at the gate, adding ties. Cloak can be two-sided (black with white lining or vice versa), and on the back it should be decorated with appliqué in the form of a crown.

Now you know how you can sew a chess queen suit yourself. The photos of the options presented above will help you not only to choose a specific model, but also, perhaps, will inspire the creation of an exclusive outfit, in which your daughter will be beyond competition.