On the eve of the most important holiday of the year there are morning performances and various events, where children have fun. Every mom wants her crumbs to be the most beautiful on the holiday. Suit for the New Year can be bought in almost all supermarkets or specialized stores. For example, the New Year costume of a gnome has always been one of the most popular. If you doubt the quality of ready-made suits or just want to make an individual outfit for a child, try sewing it yourself.
How to make a gnome costume?
Sewing a gnome suit with your own hands is not at all difficult. And if you are a little familiar with the sewing machine, then it will go very quickly, for one evening the child will have a New Year's attire. The costume consists of several elements: a hood, a waistcoat, knee socks, panties and a shirt. Now consider in more detail each element of the gnome costume:
- As for the shirt , then follow only the color scheme of the entire costume. A very simple shirt, preferably one-colored and with fairly wide sleeves, is quite suitable. To give the costume an extra volume, do not tuck it into your trousers, but tie a string or other decorative braid at the waist level.
- We'll put a vest over our shirt. You can do this yourself. Take the shirt of the child that fits perfectly on it. If you remove the sleeves and cut off the bottom, just something like a vest will come out. Attach a shirt and chalk on the fabric and circle the neck and shoulders. Further, in the place of the armhole and the desired length, make notes. Remove the shirt, paint the armhole for the vest. So you can sew a vest even if you do not know how to work with patterns at all.
- Now about the material. Before you make a gnome costume, in the fabric store, pick up all the material at once. Be sure to pay attention to its quality, because you will sew for the child. For a vest it is better to take bright and juicy colors: blue, yellow or any other.
- Panties. There are several options. Ask what the temperature is in the room where the holiday will be held. If the room is hot, do not torture the child and replace the panties with short shorts or breeches. To sew such breeches it is possible independently by a principle specified above. Fold the fabric section in half. Now attach the folded pants and circle the back and bottom halves alternately. Next, we spend first the front, then the back halves together, then we collect everything. If you roll up the shorts and attach a bell or a brush on the side, the suit will be more elegant.
- Now let's see how to make your own hands the top part of a gnome costume. A cap and beard for a gnome is very convenient to sew from fleece. This material today is becoming very popular, because it is a pleasure to sew from it. From white fleece we cut out a strip
tissue. Its length will be equal to the measure you take: from ear to ear of the child. The width is the length of your beard. Instead of an even strip, you can make a semicircle. Now we cut out several more strips: the length will be the same, and the width of each strip will decrease by half a centimeter. On the edge cut the fringe. We stack one on another our strips from the largest to the smaller. The result is a solid beard. We sew the strips between each other, around the edges we sew the elastic band so that the child can put it on. - The cap is one of the most important elements of a gnome costume. Making it even easier. In fact, the pattern is a very elongated large triangle, whose base is equal to the volume of the child's head. Take the measurement and divide it in half. Then draw triangles and stitch them together.
- Socks for the gnome. You can ask the grandmother to help a little with the decor and knit the knee socks for your dwarfs, she knows a lot about it.