How to sew a New Year's costume and costumes for the holidays with your own hands

With this article, I continue a series of publications on how to cut and how to sew New Year's costumes for adults and children at home.

The fur coat of Santa Claus is a complex product, even for sewing according to a ready-made pattern made in full size.

So, we celebrate the New Year in the costume of the Snake.

By popular demand of visitors to the site "Couturier" I publish free pattern headgear "Cobra", which is very easy to sew with your own hands, even for beginner tailors (photo 1, fig. 1).

When patterns of traditional costumes for Snow Maidens и Santa Claus were ready, I decided to offer regular customers clothing patterns american snow maiden dress.

A photo of a support group was chosen as the basis.

This dress is very easy to make by yourself.

In this article, rasshow to cut and sew such a costume for an “adult girl”.

Let's start in order.

Little Red Riding Hood costume for adults consists of a cape with a hood, a blouse, a corset and a skirt.

A feathered skirt is another great model suitable for a children's New Year's costume.

As you can see in the examples, this skirt is also suitable for dance costumes (photo 1),

for costumes of Moths, Elves and Forest Fairies (photo 2), for traditional Snowflakes, and even for a Bee costume (photo 3).

To make such a skirt, a pattern is not required.

What’s more, you don’t even need a sewing machine.

Putting on a Snow Maiden costume for a girl is like winning a local beauty contest.

Therefore, the role of the Snow Maiden on New Year's holidays is the most desired.

In this article, we will look at how to cut a Snow Maiden's fur coat according to a finished pattern.

Parsley - the hero of numerous Slavic fairy tales and one of the main characters in children's matinees (Fig. 1).

Consider how to sew a traditional Petrushka costume for a children's party based on free patterns by Vera Olkhovskaya.

As a basis, you can take an illustration from a fairy tale.

Vera Olkhovskaya

The "fur coat" of the Snow Maiden and the camisole of the Pirates can be made in one pattern and for both use the same fabric painting technology - contour paint.

For economic options, in both cases, a quilted lining is suitable, in the appropriate color - white, pearl gray, blue or dark gray, chocolate, black.

Vera Olkhovskaya

The rapidly approaching New Year holidays and children's parties make mothers think hard about how to sew an inexpensive New Year's costume for a child with their own hands using a free pattern.

Let's try on the example of the Bee costume.

It can be sewn for a boy, and for a girl, and for a baby.

To sew the New Year's costume of the Bee, you will need the following free patterns, which you can download without subscribing and without registering on the Vera Olkhovskaya website ...

Vera Olkhovskaya

Sewing New Year's costumes is a serious matter. It requires a lot of time and significant material costs.

For children, we, of course, do not regret anything and have already sewn them costumes for a matinee according to free patterns by Vera Olkhovskaya. 

But here's how to sew an inexpensive New Year's costume for adults without a pattern in an hour? Here's the right question for New Year's Eve!

Now, attention! correct answer…