Here is what I did to make my nephew's Paw Patrol/Marshall costume:
To start off I took apart a red hooded sweatshirt and added a zipper. If you need a good zipper tutorial there are several that you can search for on YouTube. For the arms, I traced the sleeves onto the dalmation print fabric and cut them out. Marshall has a yellow collar so for that I measured a strip that was 3 inches wide and lined it up to fit around the neckline.
To start to put the top together, I made sure to cut the sides open of the sweat shirt.
Then with right sides together I started to pin the sleeves on on the shoulder portion first, then sewed them in place. Then after the shoulder portion is sewed on both sides of the sweatshirt, I folded the shirt with right sides of fabric facing each other. Then I pinned the seams together so when I sewed up the sides the fabric would not slip.
Next with the shirt un-zipped I lined up the yellow collar fabric along the neck line seam and pinned in place. After sewing around, I ironed the collar opened, and then folded the other side over to the wrong side of the fabric. Then I top sewed around the collar using a 1/4 inch seam using the previous seam as a guide around. (I forgot to take pictures of this process, my apologies!)
With the hood still open, I copied the hood pieces from my Skye costume onto the Dalmatian fabric and cut out the ear pieces as well and attached them to the shirt. For the pants I took apart a pair of sweat pants where you have a front piece and a back piece. I gave myself an extra inch at the waist since I was going to use elastic. With right sides together, I first pinned the outer side of the pants and sewed both sides. Then sewed the inner seams second.
For Marshall's badge I "Google Image" searched for a clip art sample. Starting with the outer piece I traced and cut the badge on white felt, and made a second smaller red felt piece. Then on the printed photo I cut down to the flame tracing and traced that piece on orange felt and yellow felt.
I used fusible applique webbing and ironed the pieces together. Then I hooked a medium sized safety pin on the back of the badge so it could be attached to the zipper handle.
I am happy on how this costume turned out. But one thing I hope to find next time is Dalmatian fleece instead of the fake fur material that I found. I had to pin the heck out of it so it would not slip during the machine sewing process!
- To start off I took apart a red hooded sweatshirt and added a zipper. If you need a good zipper tutorial there are several that you can search for ... pawpatrolcostume.blogspot.com
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