I made the (big) boys' shirts from Rae's Flashback Skinny Tee but left the sleeves off. For Natalie's I used the same pattern but made more of a scooped neck and a skinnier strap. When I bought the knit fabric I wasn't paying much attention and realized only after I got home that the stretch of the fabric ran perpendicular to the stripes so they were vertical! Since I wanted horizontal stripes AND I was making these for costumes, I didn't really care so the shirts stretch the wrong way but they turned out fine.
Natalie's tulle skirt was made from 4 yards of black tulle and 4 yards of red tulle. I folded each cut of tulle in half and laid the black piece on the floor with the red piece on top. Then I folded the two pieces in half again so the red was sandwiched in the middle. Then I sewed an 1 1/2 in. casing along the top folded edge and ran a piece of elastic the size of her waist through the casing. It took me a lot less time than cutting and knotting pieces of tulle and knotting them onto elastic.
If you are going to be a pirate you need an eye patch and a bandana. For the bandanas I cut 20 in x 20 in pieces of knit fabric and tied them onto their heads. Super fast and easy since they didn't need any hemming. For the eye patches, I fused two piece of felt together and cut out an eye patch shape. I put grommets on the sides and tied a piece of elastic about 16 in long through the grommets. (You could also just sew the elastic on if you don't have a grommet tool.) I used my Silhouette to make a skull and cross bones stencil from freezer paper and stenciled the eye patch.
The kids were thrilled with their costumes and we won for "Best Pirate Family"!
-Emily
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