New Year costume for a rabbit

New Year costume of a rabbit is best "collected" in parts - so you can pay attention to every detail and forget nothing. Start best with top. The best option is a white shirt orTurtleneck in combination with a fur vest (sleeveless). Purely fur top with long sleeves will be too hot, and the absence of fur will not benefit the image - after all, the rabbit must be fluffy. A sleeveless shirt can be sewn from natural or artificial white fur. With the same fur, you can sew cuffs sleeves. You can put on your hands white gloves or fur gloves.

Then go to bottom. The boy should wear long shorts (up toknee), the girl - a skirt. Under the shorts or a skirt you can wear white tights. If you want to get a completely white rabbit - choose white shorts or a skirt trimmed with the same fur, from which the vest is sewn. If you need a cheerful dress - decorate the bottom with a cheerful applique in the form of carrots.

To make applique, carrots from orange fabric, and fromgreen or yellow-green - tops. The application is attached to the tissue in different ways. You can gently sew it by hand, you can use a sewing machine and stitch carrots with a seam "zigzag", or you can take nonwoven or "spider web" and use them to iron (glue) the application to the fabric. On each carrot you need to embroider "eyes" with black threads. To carrots looked spectacular, choose shorts or a skirt of contrasting color (light yellow, blue, green).

What New Year costume of a rabbit without a tail? To shorts or a skirt it is necessary to sew little tail, made of sintepon or artificial fur. On the belt, you can additionally wear a narrow strap, decorated with a large bright button on the side.

On foot you can to put on the usual white loafers or ballet flats. But you can also try to sew yourself fur slippers. First you need to make a sole of the right size -for this it is necessary to circle both feet. Then increase the pattern in such a way as to obtain allowances for the seams of the desired size. Cut out the desired piece of artificial fur on the pattern, and along its perimeter, sew a wide strip of fabric. Fold the top of the strip and sew it. Insert the elastic band and pull off the finished product so that you get a slipper.

The head can be worn cap with ears or foam ears, attached to the rim for the hair. The hat is sewn on a pattern for a cap, baseball cap or hood. The ears must be sewn into the seams of the product. So that they do not hang, but were slightly elevated, you need to use a gasket made of dense fabric and hard duplicating material in the place where you are going to sew your ear. If you want your ears to be long and hanging halfway, sew them in the bottom of the tube a third of the length of the ear. After that they need to be sewn to the headdress.

You can also make ears of thick white paper,starched fabric, thin (0.5-1 cm) foam or artificial fur. To fur ears stood, rather than hung, you need to paste them on a thick paper. Ready ears need to be attached to the rim for the hair.

New Year costume of a rabbit can be supplemented with accessories. Without which it is difficult to imagine a rabbit or a hare? Of course, without carrots!! You can buy ready-made carrots (in children'sstores often sell sets of vegetables from plastic). You can use one carrot, or you can make a garland of several and put it on like a necklace. More "exclusive" carrot will be obtained if you make it yourself - for example, sew from the same fabric as the appliqué on shorts.

For such a carrot, you need to make a pattern in the formtriangle, providing for darts for assembly. Sew the carrots by curling the fabric with a cone, and fill it with sintepon, foam rubber, cotton wool or other stuffing material. The topsoil can be cut from a glued or starched green cloth or a green plastic bottle. The cut leaves are bound in a bundle. Insert the bunch into the carrot, tighten the hole and sew well, piercing the tops right through. Such a carrot can be belt for a pre-sewn to the top of the loop.

Here's a New Year's costume of a rabbit can be made by yourself. You can supplement it with various details and slightly alter it so that it is suitable for an adult. And do not forget makeup - white circles on the cheeks and black mustaches and the tip of the nose.