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Homemade nativity costumes

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  • 15-12-2008 9:12pm
    #1
    Redpunto
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    OK, gotta make an angel and a shepherd costume tonight - help please

    Please note have no sewing machine but do own a stapler.


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    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Get soem wonderweb, your local habadashery store will have some, it's a fabric strip which becomes sticky when ironed so to make a hem you just fold the fabric over it and iron it.
    To make a seam put it between two pices of fabric and iron it.

    Good luck :)


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    Trinity
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    Shepherds outfit is just a sheet (say single bed) with a hole cut in the middle for head, (like a poncho) then something tied around the waist. A tea towel on the head with again soemthing to tie it.

    No girls so cant help with the angel sorry :D


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    noby
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    A large white t-shirt will do too, if you want to save your sheets.


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    byhookorbycrook
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    for an angel:tinsel on head, white clothes, make wings from cardboard, cover in tinsel (edit, should be tinfoil)


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    Nevyn
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    or cover in tin foil.


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    Redpunto
    Registered Users Posts: 2,024 ✭✭✭Redpunto


    byhookorbycrook wrote: »
    for an angel:tinsel on head, white clothes, make wings from cardboard, cover in tinsel

    what, cover the child in tinsel,,,,:D

    cool thanks a mil, she has dress up purple wings so might try and do something with them tonite, thanks everybody

    shepherd was old sheet, have to sort out the headgear tonight, dont think ive any clean dishcloths:)


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    lostinnappies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 827 ✭✭✭lostinnappies


    uh uh i just did my DS, he was one of the three kings. Tinsel head to toe lol.

    Get a white dressing gown, child size. Staple silver tinsel over the hooded bit and on the cuffs and on the end (or glue/sew with just a needle and thread) then for the wings get two wire hangers, stretch them out a bit and put a white pair of tights over them. Twist them together to make a pair of wings and then glue more tinsel around them. Get twine or elastic and make a pair of straps to wear them. Then put a ring of tinsel on her head.

    Job done.:D


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