Confessions of a Barefoot Costumer: a sequins of events: Collars for Lion King, Jr.

Pinterest is a Godsend.

Literally.

I feel that Pinterest is INSPIRED.

Hallelujah!!!

I find 98% of my costume inspiration on Pinterest.

PINSPIRATION.

God bless Pinterest.

Anywho...

Have you ever found an amazingly fantastic tutorial on Pinterest, only to find that when you click on the link, the author has decided to detail their entire life story on the same post, and you have to scroll for like five minutes just to find the instructions on how to make whatever it was that you were trying to make??

Ugh.

Just get to the tutorial already!!

I will never do that.

Just sayin'.

So, without further ado, here's how I made some pretty cool collars for the lioness kids in our Lion King, Jr. class:

**Disclaimer: I had to piece this collar together because I ran out of big pieces of fur... so disregard the patched-together seams...

Step 1: MAKE A PATTERN

I used some fur fabric for the top and an old sheet for the bottom.

I traced a large circle on the outside and a smaller circle on the inside, and then cut through from the outside to the middle, to make a flap I could put snaps on.

Step 2: SEW ON THE LINE

Because I really didn't think ahead when I made the "pattern", I didn't account for seam allowance... so I just sewed on the line.

Step 3: TRIM

Remember that missing seam allowance from my "pattern"? Look! I found it!!

HERE'S A TIP: When you sew curves and then want to turn your item right side out, you will need to get rid of bulk on inside curves and add some stretch to outside curves. How do you do that?? CLIP YOUR CURVES. Notches for inside curves and clip outside curves.

Step 4: TURN

Not like in a circle. Turn the collar right side out. See how nicely it came out? Aren't you so glad that you NOTCHED the inside curves and CLIPPED the outside curves??