Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Dino Hoodie Rex


I’ve seen a bunch of cute tutorials on making these adorable dino-hoodies.  I wasn’t able to find one that didn’t use felt or that didn’t cover the raw edges of the fabric.  So I sort of made this up as I went along.  Luckily, it turned out great.




I had purchased a plain grey hoodie for Baby Boy and wanted to dress it up, being that I was already inspired.  My first “issue” I had to work out was the raw edges of my fabric.  I used a cotton quilting fabric that I had in my scrap bin.  I didn’t want to take the time to stitch the triangles, wrong-sides together and turn, then somehow figure out how to attach it to the hoodie, still hiding the raw edges, so I decided to use a quilt edging technique and made triangles from squares.  This also created stiff triangles that didn’t need interfacing to stand up. 

I measured the length of the hoodie from the front of the hood down to the bottom of the jacket for the “scales”.  I used 4-inch squares and made twice as many as I would need (32/4=8).  In hind-sight, I would have made a few more squares so that I could overlap the triangles.  For the teeth, I measured the front of the hood (24”) and cut 12 - 2” squares from white cotton scrap fabric.  To make the triangles, fold the square in half (wrong-sides together) on the diagonal as shown below:


 


Then fold it in half again to make the triangle shape:


Do this for all the squares and you will have scales and teeth with only one raw edge to deal with.


I stitched a line of triangles, raw edges to the center, along the center line of the hoodie from the top/front of the hood to the bottom of the hoodie. I placed the triangles right next to one another, but I would recommend overlapping them at least by the seam allowance.  By doing so, you won’t have to deal with the tiny raw-edge corners in each of the “valleys” between the triangles.  Lesson learned for next time.


Then I stitched another row of triangles along the first, being sure to match them up as much as possible.


To finish the scales, I folded the triangles together and stitched them together along the edges.


On to the teeth!  My solution to hide the raw edges on the teeth was to use a double fold bias tape.  I stitched the raw edges into the fold of the bias tape.


Then stitched the teeth to the inside of the hood.  Super-easy!


Doesn't he look ADORABLE!!




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27 comments:

  1. Oh my goodness, so stinkin' cute! I would love for you to share this on my Blog Stalking Thursday weekly Linky Party! http://www.thecraftyblogstalker.com/2012/10/blog-stalking-thursday-62.html

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  2. What a lovely little boy. That dino suit is brilliant. Wish I had some littlies now!

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  3. Very adorable! And now I know how to finish my babies costume!! Thanks for an easy to follow tutorial.

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    1. Glad it helped! I've got all sorts of possibilities running around in my brain now. :)

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  4. I love this!! I need to make one for each of my boys! You are so talented! I am a new follower and I would love for you to visit me and join as well!

    riversrecipereview.blogspot.com

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    1. Thank you for the kind words and the invite, I'll check it out! :)

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  5. This is FANTASTIC!! I love this so much. Your kids are beyond lucky to have you to make this for them. Adorable!!

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  6. Oh my Goodness, he is adorable! Thanks for sharing this great tutorial!

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  7. oh my goodness I love this! i have got to make these for my kids! looks simple enough! my kids love dragons, i wonder how hard it would be to make little wings for it?!

    Thank you for sharing! I'm pinning this for later

    <3 Bethany @ TheSepiaPuppy.blogspot.com

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    1. Wings sound cute! I bet you could either applique some wings or attach some fabric wings some how. PLEASE share a picture if you do, I'd love to see how you do it. :)

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  8. How adorable! I'm keeping this project in mind for when I need a cute gift :) I would love if you would share this at my link party going on right now:

    http://sewingbarefoot.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-weekly-creative-4.html

    Thanks!
    Shannon @ Sewing Barefoot

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  9. Athena,
    Super cute hoodie! What a cutie! Great tutorial for a easy sewing project. Thanks for sharing at Creative Thursday. Have a great week :)
    Michelle

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  10. I love this!! I'm adding it to my son's Christmas gift list. :-) I'd love it if you came over and linked up at our Pinterest linky party. We'll pin it for you!

    http://growingupgabel.com/2012/10/pinterest-pin-it-linky-party/

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  11. This is so cute! I pinned it for my best friend who has two little boys. She might enjoy making this for them!

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    1. Gosh I love Pinterest. This is such n easy project, I'm trying to think of other things I can do to spruce up my boys' clothes. :)

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  12. This is adorable! Thanks so much for sharing at Mix it up Monday :)

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  13. Cute! I've been thinking about making a dinosaur costume for my little girl for Halloween. Thanks for the tutorial!

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  14. This is too stinkin' cute! I have featured it on this week's Bulletin Board. Come on by & check it out :) http://www.mrshappyhomemaker.com/2012/10/the-bulletin-board-9/

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  15. Thanks for linking up to The Weekly Creative last week. I hope you'll stop over again today to link up more of your fun ideas. Have a great week!

    Shannon
    www.sewingbarefoot.blogspot.com

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  16. Simply cute!
    great work thanks for sharing this.

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