If you know how to sew costumes for dancing, festive kids, then you can create something special, an apparel that you can't buy in any store. A piece of the craftswoman's soul will be in each of these outfits. And since a child will need different costumes for various matinees in kindergarten, you can save the family budget if you know how to sew a Russian folk bunny costume.
Bunny pattern for matinee
This outfit is designed for a child whose height is 90 cm. Of course, you can use the service of a professional and sew such a suit to order. But they take a lot of money for the work. Follow the detailed step-by-step description, and over time you will be able to make not only this, but other outfits as well. After all, such a hobby is very interesting and exciting.
The photo shows a detailed pattern. In order to redraw it, you need to prepare large sheets of paper, newspaper or tracing paper.
If you only have small sheets of paper, glue a few with tape, but skip it from the back, as it is difficult to draw and write with a pencil on a smooth tape. Let's start with the back. Draw her pattern using the digital clues. You can make it easier if you like. Increase the pattern so that 1 cm of the pattern is 1 cm on the monitor, redraw it from top to bottom, gradually scrolling the image up.
If this is not possible, first draw the base of the back - a large vertical line. It consists of segments: 14; 12; 16; ten; 27 cm. At the bottom, you need to leave 2 cm on the drawstring and 3 cm on the fold.
Now pass the horizontal lines through this vertical segment. Here's how to make the pattern further:
- Mark the rest of the values shown on the back diagram with a solid pencil line, connect the marks into a single piece.
- Mark where the lightning will be.
- In the same way, you need to make a pattern for the rest of the parts, not forgetting to transfer it to each legend.
Before we sew a bunny costume, we start cutting. Fold the fabric in half to cut 2 pieces at once. Pin the back here with pins, stepping slightly to the side (if the fabric is wide) or down (if it is narrow), attach and attach in front, and then the sleeve. You can place smaller details between larger ones to save fabric. Cut out, leaving 3 cm for the hem of the bottom, and 7 mm on all sides.
In the place where the drawstring for the hood will be, leave 2, 7 cm for the hem. Please note that this piece is one-piece, where it says "fold", with this side, attach the pattern to the fold of the fabric.
Each ear is also one-piece, but this is in case you have it in one color. If you want to make a two-tone, as in the photo, then cut out two of its backs from gray fabric, and two inner sides from pink.
How to sew an animal costume for a matinee?
After you have cut out all the necessary parts, we proceed to the main work. Stitch on the wrong side of the back and front side. In the photo, these lines are marked with a green line. Now you need to make the step seams. Also, without turning the workpieces out onto the face, sew the front to the back of the leg, first one, then the other.
Sew the zipper into the back, first stitching with a basting stitch with a needle. Sew on the back of the back from the buttocks to the zipper. Now you can sew on this snake also on a sewing machine, as well as shoulder seams.
Stitch the inner sides of each sleeve. Sew them to the armhole using the basting first. For a better fit on the shoulder, you can tuck them up a little. Try on the suit for the child, if everything suits you, sew on the sleeves on a typewriter. Decide on the length during the same fitting. Fold the bottom of the legs, sew, turning the fabric inward 2 cm, then to thread the elastic here.
Do the same with the hood, tucking it up, stitch it. Sew it to the neck of the front and back.
To make the costume for the child further, sew on the wrong side in pairs, 2 halves of the ear, twist through the bottom hole. Fold the edges inward here, sew this side of the first ear to the hood, and then the second.
Measure the elastic for the trousers, insert them into the two legs. In the drawstring of the hood too.
Thus, you can make not only carnival costumes, but also home costumes. In such a robe made of soft fabric, the child will feel comfortable walking around the apartment.
For dancing, costumes are made of thinner fabrics. If your daughter or you want to practice oriental, read how to make such an outfit.
We make oriental costumes ourselves
To practice belly dancing, you need bloomers or a skirt - a fluffy one is better.
The first two models are the easiest to create. Measure your hips, add 5-10 cm for a free fit (this value depends on how fluffy you want to make harem pants).
Divide the resulting figure by 4 - this is the width of each of the four legs (dimension A). Now you need to find out the length. To do this, place the beginning of the measuring tape at a point just below the navel, and the end at the bottom of the ankles (value B).
Draw a rectangle. Its width is A, and its length is B. Attach it to the fabric folded in half, cut it out, leaving 7 mm seam allowances on the sides, and 2.5 cm at the bottom and top. gum.
Stitch the sidewalls from the sides, but not with a continuous seam, but with this one.
Oriental dancewear is made from lightweight materials, often from translucent materials. When choosing a fabric, pay attention to the fact that it hardly wrinkles. Treat the seams on the side cuts, you can decorate them with metallic jewelry.
A skirt for oriental dances is another option for such clothing. The semi-sun model is comfortable to wear and is suitable for various figures.
Oriental dance skirt
The half-sun skirt will fit perfectly on the figure, since all the necessary calculations have already been made.
The pattern here is universal, suitable for sizes 40 to 60. Find your own in the table and determine the values of the radii R1 and R2. The last column is the length of the belt, you will cut it out along the length so that you can fold it in half and stitch it to the top of the skirt.
To sew it, use a crepe fabric with a width of 1.5 meters. The length of the canvas, depending on the size - 2, 05 m - 2, 45 m.
Here's a checklist of what you need to get started:
- paper or cellophane film for patterns;
- pins;
- scissors;
- pen, crayon;
- crepe fabric;
- corsage tape;
- zip fastener 20 cm.
Lay the pattern out on the fabric as shown. Cut with seam and hem allowances. If the zipper is concealed, then first stitch it to the top of the front and rear sidewalls, and then join these parts with a seam.
If the zipper is not hidden, then first sew the front and back of the skirt on the left, leave a gap of 20 cm at the top, and sew in the zipper. Sew the right side. Iron the seams.
To sew the skirt further, put the bodice tape inside the belt, iron its ends, directing them to the seal. Place the workpiece so that the top of the skirt is inside the belt - between its two sides. Connect these parts with a stitch.
How to sew a belly dance top and belt?
For a complete oriental dance costume, craft these 2 last pieces of clothing. For beginner tailors, the following top model is suitable. If you want to sew an oriental costume with your own hands for your daughter, who needs it for classes or matinees at school, kindergarten, then this option will also be ideal.
Let the top also be in crepe fabric. Take a T-shirt or T-shirt, this clothing should be the size of the dancer. Fold any of these garments in half lengthways, fold over the bottom. Place the shirt on the fabric, folded in half, and trace the outlines onto the canvas. If the top is sleeveless, don't cut it out. Sew the shoulder straps to hold the garment.
If a belly dance costume is made for an adult girl, then you can cut out the top in the shape of a butterfly. Do not forget to decorate it with sparkles, stones, sequins.
The belt also needs to be decorated, then during the performance of the belly dance, the jewelry will look beautiful, shine and tap each other in time with the movements.
Here's how to do it: measure your waist, cut a strip out of the fabric so wide that it covers your hips and you can tie a belt so that the ends of the fabric hang down. By the way, they should already be the main part. Strengthen the belt from the wrong side with a corsage ribbon, and decorate the front part as you like using beads, bugles, beads, etc.
National costumes for the matinee
It is also not difficult to sew them, the main thing is to know what things each consists of and how it is decorated. So, the Russian folk costume for a woman includes:
- shirt;
- sundress;
- scarf or kokoshnik;
- bast shoes or boots.
Nowadays, such shoes can be replaced with shoes with a small wide heel.
If you want to quickly sew a sundress, then measure the line of the hips, add 10-30 cm, depending on the desired splendor of the product. Let's denote the resulting figure as P - this is the width of the product. Measure the length to the top of the chest to the middle of the ankle or to the heels. This will be the value of E.
Now fold the fabric in half so that the fold is on the left. Set aside horizontally from it to the right? P, and down - vertically - E. Cut with a margin for the lower and upper gates, as well as for the side seams.
To sew the Russian folk sundress further, grind the side seams, lay soft folds on top. Try it on the model, draw with chalk, where you will need to cut off along the top of the chest and back.
Sew a wide braid onto this top of the sundress, at the same time attaching folds. Then tuck the bottom, hem it. It remains to sew the straps to size, and the sundress is ready.
Sew a shirt long, but shorter than a sundress. It is created from light canvas and decorated with embroidery. The product is slightly flared from the armpits, sleeves are straight, on the wrist are intercepted with elastic bands.
In conclusion, it remains to tie a scarf or kerchief, and the Russian women's costume is ready. But if you want to decorate your head in a different way, then read the next section of the article.
How to make a kokoshnik?
This idea will also be useful to you if your daughter needs to present a Russian folk costume or play the Snow Maiden at a holiday. In such an outfit, a woman can, for example, perform in a choir or shine at a themed party dedicated to national costumes.
The pattern shows the sizes of a child's and an adult's product.
As you can see, to make a kokoshnik out of cardboard, you must first redraw its pattern on paper. The height of the child is 10.4 cm, and of the adult is 13.3 cm, and their width is 26 and 36 cm, respectively.
Please note that the pattern shows the width of half of the product; when transferred to fabric, this value will be twice as large. Based on the measurements presented, draw one cutout of the headdress, which will be located on the head, and on top - several small ones, they will decorate the top of the kokoshnik.
Now you need to prepare materials, namely:
- guipure and crepe satin;
- non-woven thread-stitched;
- the cloth;
- pearls, artificial flowers;
- bindweed braid (light green, dark green, gold);
- gum;
- satin ribbon (4 cm wide for a child and 5 for an adult).
According to the pattern drawn, cut out 3 parts: two from the fabric with seam allowances, from cardboard - without an allowance. Stitch the fabric with braid, decorate with pearls, flowers. Fold 3 blanks in this order: fabric wrong side down, cardboard, second, undecorated fabric, wrong side up.
Stitch on the wrong side along the ribbed hem and on the sides, then turn inside out. This is what you should get on the front, front side,
and here's what's on the back.
Here's how to make a kokoshnik out of cardboard and fabric further. For the headband, cut 2 pieces of fabric and one piece of non-woven fabric. The size is given for an adult kokoshnik. For a baby, do according to the volume of the baby's head, plus an allowance for the tie.
Attach these details on both sides of the bottom of the kokoshnik, putting the non-woven inside, pin it with needles, and stitch it from the inside out. Turn right side out, iron.
Overlock the edge or fold the fabric inward and sew.
It remains to sew the strings,
and the kokoshnik is ready. It is a pleasure to create such a beautiful thing with your own hands!
If you want to sew not only a women's folk costume, but also a men's one, then it will be interesting for you to watch the next video. It tells how to make a blouse. It remains to tie it up with a sash (belt), complement the dress with pants, boots, a cap, and the man's suit is ready.
You can learn more about how to decorate a costume for oriental dances by reading the following visual aid:
