Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Project: Troll / Goblin Costume #2

I decided to start with the leather vest. Here are the two leather jackets I got for 3.00 each.



If you have money to go out and buy leather, you can skip this part, but if you are cheap like me and have more time than money I took a seam ripper to the leather coats. I am going to ue the smaller pieces for my hat, and the buttons will go on my vest See the big pile of leather pieces?


As I was taking the jackets apart, I realized I could keep pieces in tact so I didn't have to sew them later, I also cannot sew, so this helped a lot. I cut these peices out because in the middle there was this really ugly western pattern, that I cut away. Then I sewed these two pieces together, and trimmedit to a vest shape. I am going to distress this so I was not to worried about how nice it looked. I also changed the plan for how he vest will look, It was so easy to do it this way, so I am not going to make a patchwork one.


Here is the back panel from the same coat. I folded it in half and cut out the two vest pieces, I made a bad patter by tracing a shirt that I had. I liked the idea of the seam running down the front, a later on I am going to make this looked peiced together.





Two front pieces, that I attached to the above back panel, trimmed it to fit, and then sewed it together. I didn't worry about sewing it nice, since I want it to look like a goblin or troll sewed it, which incidentaly is the same as me sewing....coincidence?


Here is the basic structure of the vest finished. I still have to sew some on accents, and distress it, but that will be for another day. Yeah Me!!!

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