![]() ![]() Now that the basics are done, on to squirtle-fying it. ![]() Try the hat on your intended wearer (inside out still) and roll up the edge to the right fit, Remove the hat, pin, and sew. When all the like colored sections are sewed up, align, pin, and sew up the ends (back seam) to finish it up. It's easier to pin and sew one at a time. Then align and pin the like colored edges of the triangles to sew. Trace the pattern on the blue fleece, make sure you added a few inches at the bottom to make sure the hat is big enough, and cut it out. The paper size isn't big enough to fit the bottom length of the pattern so just add a few inches to it to make sure its big enough, we can always make it smaller later. the pattern is split up on 2 US paper size pages so you just have to print it and tape it together. The hat fits him, his brother, and even me, so this size should work for anyone. Hat.: I used these 'ibles to help me: , and I took the pattern from the first ible and used photoshop to enlarge it to the right size for my son. I'd suggest making the shirt a size bigger than the pants ***note*** When making the shirt, trace the pattern for the front of the shirt on the yellowish brown fleece for the belly part of the shell, it will save you work later. Shirt and Pants: just follow the instructions in the pattern set *note* I made my kids' 2 sizes too big and the pants are little big, but the shirts are a little small. For the shirt and pants I bought a pattern at Hancock Fabrics and I found a couple 'ibles that helped with the hat, though it took parts from 2 different ones for me to understand it (sewing-challenged here), so I'm going to try to dumb it down a little. This costume requires a blue long sleeve shirt, pants, and hat. ![]() Various: pencil, fabric marker, ruler, dowel rod Hot glue gun and glue sticks, and spray adhesive 7. broken down cardboard box (about the size of a diaper box or bigger) 6. sewing supplies: machine, pins, needles, thread, scissors 4. felt paper: 1 sheet each black, white, dark brown, and your choice of color for the eyes 3. I bought much more than I needed so I'm guessing on how much I actually used. fleece: light blue(2 yards), brown(1/2 yard), yellowish-brown (1/4 yard), and white (1/8 yard) *note* these amounts are estimates of what I used. It took a lot of time, work, and trial and error to get it done but I'm happy with the result and hopefully I took enough pictures and can explain the process well enough that you can make your own without having to reinvent the wheel to do it. I scoured the world wide web and saved photos of different interpretations of the 3 pokemon into costumes as well as photos of the pokemon from front and back views to use as reference. All of these pokemon have been done before by various people online for cosplays and such however, none of them had instructions for the sewing-challenged like myself. Zander chose Vaporeon, Kaiden chose Squirtle, and I chose Charmander. Poke'mon is our theme this year for Halloween as chosen by my boys. ![]()
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