Link's Tunic
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How to Make Link's Tunic
Materials
- Green Fabric
Tools
- Sewing Shears - get a good pair. pair of good sewing shears will take your cosplay a level up, you won't have frayed edges to annoy you with and slow you down!
Procedure
Step 1 - Get the fabric
Make sure that you have the correct fabric you want to buy for your costume. As a novice I buy more than I need. Also, when you're at the fabric store, make sure you buy the thread that's the same colour as the fabric. Most fabric stores have matching threads to just about any kind of fabric.
Step 2 - Make the pattern
trace over a t-shirt that is baggy. Make sure that it is not too big, or it will feel more like a tent than a tunic. I use a large sized Denver Hayes t-shirt. Make sure that it goes for the size of your body. You don't want it too small, and you don't want it too big. Cosplay for your own comfort.
Step 3 - Cutting the pattern out
Make enough room for the head hole, where the collar is going to go. Trace around the fabric after you lay it double over so that it cuts twice. Get all your pins ready, you'll need them! Pin on the shoulders and on the sides. Do not pin where your arms will go, or where your head will stick out
Step 4
Cut out some sleeves, but cut them at an angle so they hang off a little bit baggier than what you want. Keep tracing your t-shirt to do so. If you make the sleeves too small, they will restrict your movement.
Step 5 - Sewing
Begin to sew, I just use a basic up down stitch, but if you know more, go ahead and use them. Do not sew into the arm holes, or you won't be able to wear the tunic, and you'll have to rip out the hems and start again. Sew up the shoulders, once you get those done, after sewing up the sides, the basic part of the tunic is done.
Step 6 - Sew up the sleeves
Pin the sleeves onto the armholes, and make sure you pin the sleeves themselves together. When I start a sleeve, I usually start on the armholes, then work up the sides. Leave enough that you can make a hem. Do NOT what ever you do get the sleeves you cut up for the tunic mixed up with the right or the left arm.
Step 7
Turn the tunic right side out, with the good side of the fabric showing. You will have something that looks like an unfinished t-shirt. Turn a quarter of an inch of the fabric under itsself. Hem up the bottom, you'll need pins for this too Holding the fabric by hand with no pins is a royal pain. It will hurt your fingers and you'll wind up with a nasty hand cramp.
Step 8
do the same for the sleeves. Make the collar which ever style you want to, but when you sew it on, make sure that the fabric is secure on itsself or you'll do what I did, which was wind up sewing the fabric, but not on the tunic itself! A good place to look for collar advice is TR_Rose's site, and other tutorials I learned what didn't make my costumes, look so professional, or even novice quality, was that they had no hem. A hem can make a difference in a costume.
Step 9 - Do the hat
Make a conical shape ,and make sure there is an arch at the top. Pin it together and sew down the ends, leave plenty of room to get that line that you see in the hat. Hem it, and then hem it twice. You do not have to have a long and artful hat, just make sure the hat is right for your body. If you want a long hat, that's okay ^_^ This tutorial can work for both either child Link or adult Link. You can do this costume by either hand or machine, and those of you that have machines are really lucky!! If you sew by hand you'll probably wind up pricking yourself with the pin and saying things you won't repeat outside the house ^^' but sewing and cosplay are meant to be fun, so no matter how frusterated you get, never give up!! The rewards will be worth it when you completed something you know you made by yourself!
