DRESSING UP MY WILD THING – HALLOWEEN OWL COSTUME
My husband and I are huge Harry Potter fans so it was obvious that for our daughter’s first Halloween, we’ll dress her up as a character from the series. But what would it be? Most character’s will need a wand, but my daughter’s still a baby and she’ll not hold a wand for more than ten seconds. And so many other characters that require glasses or a mask or a wig were ruled out (and therefore out went the window my favorite – Snape). And then we got this idea of dressing her up as Hedwig. I saw a homemade bird costume and another costume of an owl and with few changes here and there I knew I can make an owl costume myself.
So the first thing I did was search for an old black t-shirt. That formed the base of the costume.
The next step is to make feathers. I started by cutting a pattern on a thick paper. And then I cut colorful felt pieces from that pattern.
I stuck to just two pastel shades – white and camel. Number of feather pieces will depend on the size of the t-shirt (and thus size of the person who will wear this costume). In this case, I used around 35.
After that begin to line up the feathers in a row. I forgot to take a pic right at the starting but the following should give you a clue.
I don’t have a sewing machine so I hand sew them. Another easy way will be to use a fabric glue. Just keep making rows and sew them up. Do keep the color combination in mind.
Need to be extra careful as you reach the neck of the t-shirt (because of the circular shape). I pinned the feathers around the neck before sewing them so that I know exactly what I am putting where and how.
The next thing was to make a headgear to go along. I found this really simple fleece hat tutorial and accordingly made a fleece hat. The only difference was that because I was hand sewing and not with a machine, I decided to use blanket stitch for sewing the two parts together.
And then I just pasted owl’s eyes and beak (made out of felt) over the hat.
This is how the whole costume looked
Happy Hooting!
Supplies Used: Black-colored tee, felt pieces, fleece piece, needle and thread (or fabric glue)
P.S. The costume doesn’t exactly look like Hedwig but it comes pretty close. Right?
SO SO cute! (thanks for the link too!)