Coolest Homemade Knight Costume Ideas
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Leslie J.
Washington, DC
Materials you need for this Knight costume: 'Metallic' fabric for the mail, shiny fabric for the tunic, gold lame for the cape and 'boots', gold and silver iron on decals for the coat of arms, elastic fusible interfacing, Velcro Stitch witchery. I made his 'mail' with metallic fabric. This took awhile since I didn't use a pattern and kept trying to decide how to attach the part that goes over the shoulders. Also this material is not easy to sew--it gets stuck on the needle and tears the thread.
Anyway once I finally got it together I used elastic to make sure it fits snugly around my son's head and then attached two Velcro fasteners to hold it beneath his chin. The tunic was easy. I folded the fabric in half, cut it and sewed up the sides leaving space for the arms. (I then cut that opening in a curve so that it would fit better). I cut a hole for his head to go through. I used iron on decals to make a coat of arms on the front.
The 'boots' were more like spats. I took the gold lame and ironed on the interfacing to add some weight. I cut out two oval pieces and stitched them together and two rectangles and stitched them together. I sewed the rectangle to the back of the oval piece. The oval was the front and the rectangle was the part that wrapped around his leg. To hold them on I used Velcro fasteners and elastic. The elastic was attached so that it went around the bottom of the shoe. I cut out the cape and used stitch witchery to hem the edges and ran elastic through the top to tie it on. Seeing him run with the cape flying behind him was the funnies sight! Underneath the Knight costume was a black turtleneck and sweatpants.
Total Spent: $30
Diane S.
Chandler, AZ
I made my grandson's Gallant Knight from a pattern by Simplicity to which I added a few embellishments. The two-color tunic, the chain mail sleeves and hood, the cape and the feathered helmet were not part of the pattern.
The chain mail of the costume is silver colored netting. I sewed together the two different materials and then cut the tunic pattern out to get the two-color look.
The helmet came with the Sword and I added the blue plume on top.
The cape was something I added to give the costume more color. The boots are made of silver material sewed together with cotton batting. He loved his costume and felt very special on Halloween night.
Total Spent: $65
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