Did You Know How to Make a Knight Costume?

Did you know how to make a knight costume?



I like to be thrifty (cheap!) and I don't sew, so I knew this one could maybe be tricky. My mom did help me out, but I think they turned out rather well. I started by getting some satiny cloth. Then I cut out the zig zag pattern at the bottom, along with the neck hole. I printed out the symbols from the computer and traced them onto scrap material, which I glued onto the tunic. My mom did sew around the red one, as it is a thicker material.



The purple one was too thin, so she used no-fray fabric glue around the edges. She also outlined it with silver glitter glue.



Then we used scrap material for sashes. Instead of trying to make the under-piece (to represent the chain mail) we bought hoodies-which are easy to find right now. Stick in a sword and a shield (.25 cents on clearance at the museum!!) and a home made helmet (instructions in next post) and you've got your own knight in "shining" armor!