The Costume Box: Dress-Up for Holiday and Every Day
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In-depth Instruction; over 407 mins
On-demand video access anytime
Bonus downloadable PDF resources
Access to class Q&A
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Does your little girl wear her tutu to bed? Have all your bath towels been redeployed as superhero capes? Kids love costumes! Anne Weil has dozens of great ideas to share. Whether you're planning a special Halloween costume, or fueling your child's creativity with items for imaginative play, The Costume Box will teach you easy techniques to make dozens of beautiful costumes. This class includes detailed instructions and pattern templates. You'll make capes that transform your child into a princess or superhero; wings for a dragon or fairy; no-sew skirts, crowns and sparkly wands; or a sword and armor. Create more than 50 costume designs with Anne's techniques!
In The Costume Box, Anne Weil will teach you basic techniques that you and your children can use to create hundreds of different costume ideas.
This no-sew skirt works up in minutes. Colorful tulle can make a skirt for a witch, fairy and Snow Queen, or rip up sheets for a Zombie Ballerina. Anne talks about how color choices make the difference between an ordinary skirt and one that wows.
If you can tie a square knot and slipknot, you can make this headpiece with tulle and ribbons. Learn wire-twisting techniques, match the crown colors to your skirt and add embellishments.
Three different wands will enchant your young magician, including a pearly sphere, a tulle puff and a regal scepter. Anne teaches how to wrap ribbon or embroidery floss for a colorful finish.
Allow your child to fly with easy-to-make wings, decorated with ribbon, beads, tulle and faux fur for dozens of different looks.
Anne demonstrates three ways to decorate and attach straps to your costume wings, so they'll stay on securely for hours of play.
Delicate wire and jewels decorate the forehead. Use your wire-twisting skills and glue gun to create a custom-fit headpiece for a princess.
Easy sewing on posterboard creates a regal crown that matches other costume pieces.
Three layers of corrugated cardboard makes a sword study enough for energetic pretending. Decorate the hilt with satin ribbon and flashy jewels.
More sewn paperboard from your recycle bin makes a scabbard for your trusty sword, or a utility belt for carrying whatever needs to be brought along, from a light saber or pirate's booty to a fairy's stash of pixie dust.
You don't need a pattern - just a ruler, pencil and piece of string - to create this costume piece from paperboard and fabric. Embellishments let your child pretend to be a robot, muscular superhero, space villain or gorilla.
With a little measuring and sewing, turn ordinary sneakers into sparkly golden boots. This lesson gives you useful tips to take any outgrown costume piece and make a new pattern with plenty of grow room.
Basic sewing skills are all you need to make this spectacular lined cape. In Part 1, Anne shows you how to select fabric and trim, then measure, draw and cut out the pieces. No pattern required!
Finish your cape with easy machine sewing, and your child is outfitted for adventure. An optional hood gives your cape an air of mystery.
Anne Weil
Fiber artist Anne Weil is the maker behind Flax & Twine, a website where she shares DIYs, patterns, projects and inspiration. Anne also teaches knitting at local yarn stores and craft workshops across the country. She's the author of "Knitting Without Needles: A Stylish Introduction to Finger and Arm Knitting." Her work has been featured in many online publications including Martha Stewart, Design Sponge, Apartment Therapy, Huffington Post and more.
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