Skomorokha costume with your own hands for children and adults

Skomorokh - a famous and beloved since childhood character, who always acts as such a zavodil on any children's matinee. Children willingly repeat after him dance movements, guess his riddles and perform various tasks. And if the buffoon turns out to be in the retinue of Grandfather Frost at the New Year's carnival, then, of course, he is given one of the most important things - driving dances around the tree. That is why the costume of this character should be flawless, so that the enthusiastic looks of the young guests for a long time shone from the memories.

This article will describe the process of creating a dress for this hero, from the development of patterns and ending with sewing ribbons and shiny sequins. So, how can you sew a skoomer costume with your own hands and what is needed for this?

Materials and Tools

When it comes to sewing, in the first place, of course, it is necessary to prepare not only sewing accessories, but also equipment: a machine and, if possible, an overlock. Many novice craftsmen sometimes forget about the necessary matching of the needle and linen, which leads to unpleasant consequences, such as stitched seams, omissions or holes in the material. Why is it just a sewing machine? Because without it you can sew a skomorokha suit with your own hands, but it will take a lot longer. In addition, it is unlikely to be able to make all the stitches perfectly smooth by hand.

Also for work it is necessary to prepare a building film or a tracing paper for development of patterns, a centimeter ribbon and a permanent marker or a simple ballpoint pen for working on polyethylene.

How to make patterns?

To sew a suit of buffoons with your own hands, you just need to draw patterns of clothing: pants and shirts. There are two variants of cutting: by clothes and by standards. And the one and the other method is not very complicated in execution, but it will be necessary to try.

Pattern for clothing

To resample patterns from the ready-made clothes, you will need a T-shirt and sports pants. And regardless of whether the costume of a buffoon child or an adult. Clothes are laid out on a flat surface, covered with a film on top and with a pen or marker drawn around the contour and draws out all the seams on the things. After all the manipulations you will only have to cut out the parts from the film, reseat them on the material, add allowances for the seams and cut out.

Shirt pattern by standards

The second option is a bit more complicated and will require some calculations to get a beautiful buffoon suit. The pattern is based on the measurements taken: chest, waist, hips, shoulder width, length of sleeves, pants and shirt. So, on the film draw two rectangles. One with the length of the shirt and the width of the larger of the measured girths, divided in half, and the second height, like a sleeve, and a width equal to twice the depth of the armhole.

On the first rectangle, the center of the side is located from the top and draw a proportional to the size of the jacket of the neck. After the shoulder seams to the edges, mow down 1.5 cm and, not reaching the perpendicular lines about 5 cm, draw down the armhole arm. Then proceed to work on a rectangle for the construction of the sleeve, where the height is the length, and the width is the measure taken along the edge of the armhole. To the wrist, the sleeve can not be narrowed, but the rounds are slightly rounded, cutting corners in the armpits.

Pattern of trousers by standards

Wide trousers are an indispensable detail that must include a buffoon suit. The pattern of this garment is constructed as follows:

• First you need to draw two rectangles, where the length is equal to the length of the trousers, and the width - a quarter of the hips circumference + 8 cm and plus 10 cm;
• On drawings with one of the sides fall down on the measure of the depth of sitting (it is removed in the sitting position on the stool from the waist line and up to the stool on the thigh), on a smaller rectangle this value is reduced by 4 cm;
• From the points obtained from the rectangle in the larger drawing, add 4 cm, at a smaller -1 cm and draw new edges of the part, reducing additions to the knee line;
• Then proceed to the middle seam and the bow of the trousers, where on the top of the rectangle inward the parts retreat 4 cm and fall to the sitting line, rounding the middle seam, not reaching the end point about 4 cm.

After all the manipulations will be the most primitive pattern of pants, on which you can sew trousers. They fit perfectly into the costume of the buffoon. Children's and adults attire are not very different from each other, and therefore this option is suitable for everyone.

Selection of fabric

How to make an interesting buffoon suit yourself? Patterns are half the battle, the main thing is to choose the right material that will set the mood for everyone alongside. For this purpose, fabrics with glitter, such as satin, supplex or velor, will work fine. The last two should not cause any problems at all, as the slices can be left without processing, and the ability of the fabric to stretch will hide the possible shortcomings of the cut.

What color should be a buffoon suit? The adult and the child will easily answer this question, because everyone knows that the outfit of this hero must necessarily have many bright shades. Yellow, red, green, orange, blue and pink - all these colors can be combined in such a dress among themselves. It can be a patch on a suit, ruffles inserted in seams, or simply sewn from the cloths of different colors of the details of the cut.

Finishing and costume details

An integral part of any outfit is accessories. For the buffoon, this bell with bells, as well as beautiful lace cuffs on the sleeves and an angular collar with pendants made of bells. The costume of a buffoon for a girl can be made with tight knitted panties and a multi-colored skirt-tutu.

The trousers and wide sleeves of the suit are gathered down on the elastic band. In order to give the charm and zest along, the elastic is sewn so that after it there is still a fabric that will be collected by a beautiful frill. On the edge of this frill, a ribbon with paillettes will perfectly fit, which adds brilliance alongside. It can also be sewn on the chest of a shirt, laying out any geometric pattern or simple vertical stripes.

How to sew a hat?

To sew a hood of a buffoon, you need to take a measurement of the circumference of the head, then draw on the film a rectangle with a width equal to half the measure, and a height of about 40 cm for a child and 50 for an adult. Further, having retreated from the bottom to the top about 15 cm, the future horns of the hood are drawn, diverging from the middle. The whole cap must necessarily be duplicated with a dense tulle, and the horns should also be synthepone, so that they stick out well. Also it will be necessary to make a lining in such a cap, so that tulle does not prick his forehead. Difficulties should not arise here, you just need to cut out from any fabric two more of the same parts, only to cut off their horns about 16 cm from the bottom of the cap.