Wow… I can’t believe it’s been a while I last posted! Sorry about that, I am here and alive. Between a busy week, Annabelle deciding she needs to get up early, and then having no internet Thursday, I haven’t had a chance to sit down and blog. Then this was a super long post, so there’s that too.
P.S. I original had this post planned for Friday, although not my usually “Oh Hey Friday”. I have still linked up with my Friday pals, I hope that’s ok, I was just super excited to share!
There are a lot of steps to this, so stay with me! In these directions the giraffe print is the outer fabric and the yellow fabric is the lining.
Step One:
Cut your fabric. To do this you want to know how long you want the poncho to be from shoulder, and from finger tip to finger tip. Add one inch to each of those measurements (to leave room for seam allowances).
Step Two:
Cut two hood pieces out of the outer fabric and lining (sorry I forgot to take a picture of the lining). To do this, I just traced a hood on one of Annabelle’s coats, adding an extra 1/2 inch around the edge.
Step Three:
Make the “horns”, which are actually called ossicones.
A. Cut a rectangle out of your lining fabric and some fusible fleece. Iron the fusible fleece onto the wrong side of the lining fabric.
B. Cut a small tuft of fur. At JoAnn’s they had “bear fur” on a bolt. I got four inches.
C. Pin the “fur” to the lining, right sides together and sew the top
D. Fold them in half and sew up the long side, and across the top.
Step Four:
A.Cut a piece of fake fur for the mane. Mine was about 4″ wide.
B. Fold the mane in half and sew the short ends. Now you can attach the mane to the hood. To do this I sewed the main onto on hood piece.
You want to make sure you have about 1/2 an inch of hood on either end of the mane.
C. Then I sandwhiched the mane between the two hood pieces. You are left with this.
Step Five:
Now you can attach the occicones and ears (sorry I didn’t take any picture of ears before putting them on the hood).
A. Lay your ears and ossicones on your hood to figure out where you want them. Here is what mine looks like. Use a pen and trace the raw edges.
B. Cut slits where you traced.
C. Use a pen an trace the slits, so you can have the ears and ossicones in the same place on both sides.
D. To sew the ears and ossicones on slip them into the slit you made. It’s kind of hard to explain, so I hope the pictures help.
After everything is sewn on, you will have a giraffe hood!
Step Six:
Cut out a neck hole on your outer fabric and lining. I traced a neck hole of one of Annabelle’s shirts to make the template (I didn’t take a picture of lining).
Step Seven:
Attach the hoods. Match the right sides together, and make sure the hood is centered.
Step Eight:
Now you have two ponchos, the lining and the outer fabric.
Step Nine:
Now is time to attach the lining to the outer fabric.
A. Lay the outer fabric on the ground, right side up. Lay the lining piece (right side down) on top of the outer fabric. Pin, and sew all around the edge.
B. After sewing the edges turn the fabric out though the head hole. Now to finish up the hood an neck hole. Take an iron and fold over the lining a fabric a little (kind of similar to creating a hem, but you will only be folding it once). Then fold over the fleece and start pinning. Basically you want the two folded edges to be on the border of the hood and neck hole. I really hope that make sense!
After sewing that you are done!! Put it on your model and look at how cute they look!
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