I understand clowns are a bit out of fashion, however my son is passionate about them. He has an old institution aesthetic when it comes to clowns, so the very first piece of his costume I worked on was the collar. When it was done, I realized that the rest of the costume might be almost anything, like a pair of zip up pajamas, a set of bright mismatched clothes, or some too-big shirts as well as pants from a second-hand store.
This realization came to me as well late. I had already bought material for the entire costume.
So let me share this clown collar tutorial as well as hope that at least one rookie mom will spend 9 minutes making this ruffle as well as phone call it a costume.
You’ll requirement a scrap of material as well as a ribbon long sufficient to tie in a bow around your child’s neck.
1. cut a strip of material about one lawn wide as well as 10 inches deep.
2. Fold lengthwise, wrong sides together as well as iron.
3. sew the length of the strip, making a tube.
4. since you requirement to end up with the ribbon running with the tube, reach your arm with the tube to turn it right-side out as well as simultaneously pull the ribbon through. If you didn’t achieve those two things at the exact same time, no worries. I’m sure you’ll discover a method to get your ribbon to run with the tube.
5. With the ribbon sticking out on both sides, iron your right-side out strip flat. turn the open edges under as well as iron them, too.
6. Back at the stitching machine, sew one running stitch along the bottom edge of your strip. You know, the edge that is a fold, not a seam.
7. sew closed one end of the tube, right across the ribbon. keep the ribbon at the top of the strip. (Top meaning the seamed edge.)
8. now you are going to ruffle up this clown collar. figure out exactly how long the completed collar should be by holding the ribbon around your neck – or your child’s neck if he or she is either cooperative or dead asleep. Slide the open edge of the tube toward the closed edge to ruffle it up. Pin in location to the ribbon.
9. sew the open edge closed.
10. tie the ruffle around your child’s neck for a clown’s collar. No kid was offered at the time of this writing, therefore this teddy bear obliged me by modeling what we have so far of a Kindergartner’s clown costume.
Teddy truly liked dressing up as a clown. He insisted I take a photo with the wig.