My boys wanted to be Link for Halloween, so I decided to make them Windwaker Link costumes since that cartoony version is a lot simpler than the more realistic Link. heh! (I also made three costumes since I knew Glowbug would want one when she saw her brothers being matching.)
I didn’t want to make separate vests and tunics because Halloween here is really hot. The shirts are Deep Sea V Necks with the vee deepened and a panel of lighter green sewn behind. Also, I used the same lighter green for the sleeves.
I think Link wears white pants, but that wasn’t going to happen for my kids. Their shorts are all light grey Coastal Craze Baggies.
For their shields, I googled to find a clear picture, which turned out to be the nendoroid toy. Then for each shield, I did this:
- cut out 2 shield-shaped pieces of Soft & Stable
- basted solid-colored quilting cotton to one side of each piece of Soft & Stable
- painted the shield design on one shield piece (using just cheapie acrylic paint)
- made two kid’s-wrist-sized fleece loops and sewed them to the other shield piece
- basted the two shield pieces WST
- bound the raw edges using 2″ wide white bias strips
- pressed the bias strips to make double fold bias tape
- sewed the bias tape to the front of the shield along the bias tape’s fold line
- folded the bias tape over to the back and pinned in place
- stitched in the ditch from the front and caught the back edge
I used an instructables tutorial to make the hats. I also added some decorative “stitching” along the seam because I saw it on hats for sale on Etsy and thought it looked cute. :} For the stitching, I cut slits in the hat and threaded brown fleece strips through in x shapes. (In the picture, the left hat is inside-out to show what the underside of the decorative stitching looks like.)
For each of the belts:
- cut out ~3″ diameter circles: 1 Soft & Stable, 2 yellow quilting cotton
- sew all three circles together layered with the Soft & Stable on the bottom and the two cotton circles on top
- pink raw edges
- cut a turning slit only in the topmost cotton circle
- turn right side out and close up the turning slit by ironing a scrap of interfacing over it
- stitch a spiral using brown thread
- cut a kid’s-waist-circumference x 3.5″ strip of something brown and stretchy (I used leftover ponte)
- sew along the length to make a tube and turn it right side out
- insert elastic, if you want (Glowbug’s belt looked fine without it, but the boys’ ones needed the elastic to look wide enough)
- sew the belt into a loop (the join doesn’t have to look nice)
- hand sew the belt buckle over the stitched-together part of the belt
I finished the costumes early, and the kids sure know how to make me want to make them more things — they’ve been wearing their costumes and playing together a lot. It makes me so happy! 🙂