An unusual girl Marinette from the recently appeared cartoon "Lady Bug and Super Cat" conquered the whole world almost in an instant. She is loved by kids, teenagers, and even some adults are happy to follow the adventures of this charming little girl from the beautiful city of Paris.
On the eve of the New Year, when it is necessary to prepare an interesting costume for the New Year's party or masquerade, most girls dream about how on this magical day they will transform into the famous Lady Bug. But their mothers are worried about something completely different - how to bring their daughter's desire to life.
Of course, you can buy a Lady Bag costume. But it can easily not fit your daughter in size, and the New Year's mood will be endlessly spoiled.
To prevent this from happening, it is wiser (and more fun, more interesting) to make a Lady Bug costume with your own hands. It will be especially cool if you sew it together with your daughter.
However, far from all possess the skills of cutting and sewing, and every mother, undoubtedly, every mother wants to please her daughter. This article has been written to help her. It describes in detail how to build a Lady Bug costume specifically for your princess.
Where to begin
Lady Bug is a ladybug girl. Like most of his fans, he goes to school. Everyone knows her as an ordinary, funny and sometimes a little awkward girl. But in reality, she is a superhero who fights evil. Together with his partner - Super Cat.
That is why her outfit is red in a large black pea. In order for the Lady Bug costume to be perfect, at the preparatory stage it is necessary:
Determine how much tissue is required.
Buy in the store a piece of fabric of the required size and appropriate color. If it is not, you will have to separately purchase red and black fabrics. The material used to make swimwear would be ideal. But the child in it will be uncomfortable. Therefore, thick elastic knitwear will be an excellent option.
Buy a long zipper that you subsequently position on the back. Red is preferred to make it less noticeable.
Armed with chalk or a piece of soap for the pattern, good large scissors, a box of safety pins, red threads and a sewing machine.
How to determine the amount of tissue
In order to determine how much fabric will be required to complete the Lady Bug costume, you will need to measure your princess. Focus on the main indicators - height and the maximum of three dimensions (chest, waist, hips).
Also remember that for a costume you will need two parts. So, the obtained results of measuring growth will need to be multiplied by two.
In addition, the Lady Bug from the cartoon, in addition to the costume, has a handbag and a mask. Therefore, you will need fabric for them.
How to make a pattern
Making a Lady Bug costume for girls is pretty simple. The main thing is to turn on your wit, and everything will surely work out.
You can use a pattern of tight-fitting overalls. But she will have to be customized to make Lady Bug the perfect fit for your princess in size.
It is much better to make a pattern yourself. To do this, take any leggings and a sweatshirt with a raglan sleeve that sit perfectly on your little daughter. Turn them inside out - this is the pattern that matches the size of your princess.
Transferring patterns to fabric
If you sew a Lady Bug costume for children using a paper pattern, then simply transfer it to the fabric. If you decide to create an outfit that perfectly fits your princess, you should follow these steps:
Fold the cut in half. You need two details - the front and the back.
Fasten the edges (three loose and one bent) with safety pins so that when you are transferred to the fabric, your pattern does not slip or stray. Otherwise, it will turn out wrong, the Lady Bug costume will be large or not fit on your daughter at all.
Now carefully lay the jacket on the fabric. Spread it so that it lies freely and does not bend anywhere, does not pinch.
Outline it and remove from the segment.
Then take the leggings, put them on the fabric so that they form a jumpsuit with the outline of the sweatshirt, and do the same manipulations with them.
If everything is done correctly, at the end you will get a jumpsuit outline. However, this is not all.
Cutting parts
So, you outlined a blouse and leggings. Now:
Around the resulting contour, draw another one, two or three more centimeters. So you set aside the distance needed for the seams.
Walk along the first outline with safety pins so that when cutting, the pattern does not move, and you do not accidentally cut off anything superfluous.
Take the scissors and cut out the detail of your overalls.
Fold the pattern in half. So that the sleeves lay one on top of the other. According to the fold obtained on the back, draw a chalk or a piece of soap. At this point you sew a zipper.
Lay out your pattern again, take the zipper and measure the distance necessary for it. Make a straight cut according to your measurements.
Trying on a costume Lady Bug
Amass your jumpsuit and sew a zipper. Turn it out and call the daughter to try on. If both of you are satisfied with the result, then you can flash the suit on a sewing machine. If some points need to be improved, finish them and then proceed to complete the outfit, which, depending on how lucky you are in the fabric store, will be divided into the following two options:
Did you manage to buy spotted red fabric? So, just hem the neck and bottom of the sleeves and legs.
Did you have to buy black fabric? Then cut out the circles and sew them to the jumpsuit. And only then proceed to the final finish.
That's all, you managed to make a Lady Bug costume. And the Super Cat is waiting for a meeting with his faithful assistant in the struggle for good.