I wanted to dress in something fun and different, and saw some really cute piñata costumes on Pinterest. The only thing I didn't like about the costume tutorials I saw online was the fact that they were all made using crepe (or tissue) paper. I didn't want any areas to wear thin from sitting down, and with our rainy weather recently, I definitely didn't want it to start disintegrating on me.
I decided to instead use felt fabric. And being the neurotic crafter that I am, I didn't want to glue the costume together, but chose to sew it together instead. It took a lot longer than anticipated. It was around 50 layers of felt individually sewn into the dress.
Materials:
12" each color x 6 colors of felt.
Thread.
Dress - I used an old jersey maternity dress that I had in the back of my closet.
Scissors.
Sewing machine.
Directions:
Cut the felt into strips. I made my strips approximately 2-1/2" wide (the felt colors I bought at Hobby Lobby weren't perfectly 12", so I couldn't make it a 3" strip).
'Fringe' the individual strips. Just eyeball the cuts to be evenly spaced and cut around halfway up the strips.
Start with the bottom strip, pin it to the dress, and sew it to to the dress. As my dress was jersey and I wanted to maintain some stretch, I used a widely spaced stitch - not quite a basting stitch, but close.
Subsequent strips are spaced to overlap the lower strip by about half. Pin, stitch, repeat.
Once I got to the neckline, I had some leftover pink strips and decided to add a little fringy detail. I sewed two strips together make a pink fringe and pinned and sewed it around the neck.
I took the leftover scraps and hot glued them to a dowel and added a Christmas bow to the top as the piñata stick.
Finally, I took a couple of disposable plastic cups and glued scraps to them. I cut some holes into them and laced them through a headband to make piñata ears.
so cute!
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