Urgently need a New Year's outfit for a child? It’s easy to make a sailor’s costume for the boy with your own hands. If you catch on not late at night, and when the shops are still working, it’s easy to create a very beautiful and spectacular thing. Although even from what is at home in the closet, you can sew a simple option for a small sailor.
DIY sailor costume for son or daughter
Boys always love to try on the roles of brave heroes: firemen, astronauts, captains. Any fidget will gladly agree to go to the New Year tree in the form of a sailor or another member of the crew of a sea vessel. A do-it-yourself sailor costume for a boy can be made both stylized, conveying the overall flavor and color scheme, and completely realistic. The second option will require much more time, so you should take care of everything in advance.
As for girls, they usually transform into princesses for the New Year's masquerade, but for a sea dance in a kindergarten or school, a sailor costume option may well be needed.
The article discusses options for creating a headgear and collar, so that the instruction is suitable for sewing a costume for both the son and daughter. The difference is what kind of clothes you choose for the stitched elements - a vest and pants or a blouse with a skirt of the corresponding colors.
Materials and Tools
To sew a sailor suit for a boy with your own hands, you need to prepare the following:
- White fabric for beret or top of visor.
- Blue material for guys (collar) and visor base.
- White narrow satin ribbon for decorating the guise perimeter.
- A blue ribbon for decorating a visor or yarn to make a pompom to a beret.
- Doublerin for sealing elements from fabric so that the products retain their desired shape.
- Threads in matching shades.
- Paper, pencil, ruler, compass for building patterns.
- Pins and tailor's chalk.
- A needle with a thread.
- Sewing machine.
As you can see, nothing exceptional is needed. You can also decorate the product with a patch or decoration in the form of an anchor.
How to take measurements and build a pattern
To make a sailor suit for a boy with your own hands, you need to correctly make part templates and correctly determine their size. For headgear, the head circumference should be measured in the place where the lower part of the cap will be. She should sit comfortably on her head, not fall through and not squeeze. It is more convenient for a beret to sew in an elastic band and when trying on the finished product to determine the desired size.
The guis pattern is also built according to the individual size of the child. Since you sew a costume for a holiday, and not a real form, it is enough to observe proportions approximately and do a beautiful thing. The collar should not look like a cloak. Do not make it too narrow and small. Consider, of course, the amount of fabric you have. The optimal length at the back is to the bottom of the shoulder blades, and in front of a tied-up item should end in the middle of the chest.
How to make a cap
So, you decided to sew with your own hands a sailor suit for the boy. Start with a hat.
Work as follows:
- By previously taken measurements, cut out a blue strip of double width. Consider also seam allowances. If the dimensions of the material do not allow you to make an integral part, make it from several rectangles of the available size.
- Again, according to the size template created from white fabric, cut out a circle and a ring.
- Make the same parts from doubler, but no allowances.
- Glue doublerin blanks to the wrong sides of the fabric.
- Connect the two white parts with the front sides to each other, fasten with pins and sew along the perimeter of the circle, deviating from the edge the allowance (1cm).
- Make cuts in the allowances along the entire edge so that when turning the material does not pull.
- Unscrew the white part of the peakless cap and, if necessary, steam it off.
- Make uniform cuts around the entire inner perimeter of the white part.
- Fold the blue strip in half with the doubler inward, getting the desired height of the part. Unpack the workpiece.
- Seam allowances on the long sides of the blue strip are hemmed in.
- Lay the white ring allowances between the two layers of the blue strip and sew the elements together.
- Gently dock the seam allowances left on the narrow sides of the blue part. Undeveloped edges should be clearly butt.
- Cut a pair of blue satin ribbons and sew them exactly in the middle of the back from the inside.
- Sew an anchor or helm on the front of the headgear.
So, your cap is ready.
How to make a beret
It will be interesting to look at the New Year's costume "Sailor (sailor)". Sketches of a headdress and other elements are best pre-drawn on paper. Here you can sew not a cap, but a beret with a pompom. In fact, it is made in the same way as the upper white part of the cap, only of the appropriate size. So use the previous instructions. You can’t use doublerin, but in the inner part of the ring, instead of allowances for the seam, provide a bend for inserting the elastic. When the product is stitched, insert it and measure on the child’s head the desired length.
To make a pompom, cut out two blanks from cardboard in the form of a ring or an unconnected ring. Wrap blue yarn around folded cardboard templates. The larger it is, the pompom will be more magnificent. Cut the wound threads around the outer edge and tie them neatly by passing the thread between the cardboard parts. Sew the pompom to the center of the beret.
How to sew guys (collar)
If you coped with a beret or peakless visor, making this part is not difficult. Work like this:
- Cut two blanks in a pattern or in half with a fold line in the middle.
- Stitch the white ribbons on the front of one part.
- Connect both elements with their faces inward. Do not forget to make incisions in the allowances along a rounded contour (along the neck) so that the fabric does not tighten.
- Sew along the contour, leaving the lower edge at the back unstitched for inversion.
- Turn out and stitch gently the bottom.
The collar is made. It can simply be knotted in front or provided with a connecting element of tape or braid.
Costume for the boy "Sailor": master class
So, you already know how to sew the simplest elements: either a cap and a collar. If you do not have time and materials for more, stop here. If you want to make other parts of the clothes, you can do this as follows:
- Take a white turtleneck, t-shirt or shirt. Measure the strip of wide blue satin ribbon (5 - 6 cm) with the length corresponding to the perimeter of the cuff or the bottom edge of the sleeve. Sew to the base. On top you can decorate with two more narrow stripes of white satin ribbon.
- White pants are enough to decorate the same.
- If you have blue pants, shorts or a skirt for a girl, sew a pair of white narrow ribbons on the bottom.
- As a top, you can use a vest.
- If time and experience allow, sew all the parts yourself.
Do not be afraid to experiment and make your own options. After all, you are creating a children's costume for the holiday, not a cadet uniform.
So, it’s not difficult to make a sailor’s suit for a boy with your own hands. Choose the appropriate option and follow the instructions.