Leprechaun 7 inch Desk Goose Costume

  

With St Patrick's Day approaching, I took some inspiration from my Buddy the Elf  7" desk goose costume to make a Leprechaun outfit! 

Supplies:

Desk Goose

Felt (Green, Yellow, Black and White)

Heat Transfer Vinyl HTV - Black and Gold/Yellow (optional)

1/2" Gold/yellow ribbon

Needle/Thread

Hot Glue

1/2" Dowel - Cut down to 1" segment

1/8 inch elastic  or Hair Tie for chin strap (also optional)

Printer/Paper (optional)

Cricut Maker with Rotary Tool (optional)

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Let's get started! Here is the pattern. Print this to a 8.5"x11" sheet. Ensure that the 1inch square is 1" x 1" on your print out. 

Cut out the shapes on paper, then cut them out on felt. 

Starting off with the jacket, line up the black belt on the green jacket piece. Carefully iron or hot Glue the belt in place, then iron or glue the belt buckle over the belt. Iron or glue the gold strip to the rectangular hat piece as well.

Fold the collar down on each side and use a tiny bit of hot glue to hold it down.

Take the white piece of felt and glue it down on the inside of the jacket piece.

The jacket is almost assembled, but now it needs a bow!

Using 1/2 inch ribbon, but a strip 2.5 inches long

Fold the ribbon in half and crease on the fold to mark the middle of the ribbon for reference.

Now, unfold the ribbon, with the dull side up, fold in each end into the center of the ribbon, overlapping the center crease by 1/8 inch. 

Thread your needle and tie a knot at the end of the thread. Put a couple of small stitches into the center of the ribbon, through all 3 layers. 

With the center stitches securing the 3 layers, cinch the middle of the ribbon from top to bottom and wrap the thread around the center several times

Once the thread is wrapped, tie it off in the back.

If you don't have ribbon, you can cut a strip of felt for the bowtie as well

Hot glue the bow tie to the white part of the top.

Now wrap the jacket around the goose body, find the right fit and hot glue the jacket closed. I prefer to flip the jacket inside out and sew the seam closed with a sewing machine. but hot glue works just as well if you don't have a sewing machine. 

Then we can move on to making the hat. These are the pieces you will need to make the hat. I cut the down into 1" segments using a hand saw. The dowel is used to help the top hat stand up and offer a surface to glue all of the hat pieces to without making a mess of the glue.

Start off by gluing the rectangle felt around the dowel, trim off any extra, if needed.

Glue the smallest circle to the top of the dowel

Glue the smallest medium sized circle to the hair tie or elastic chin strap

Now glue this piece into the center of the largest felt circle

And then the hat is complete! 

And that's all! Dress your goose up and give put on fashion show on your desktop runway!

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Shamrock Hair Clip

When I can't find a tutorial for a craft I want to try, I'm forced to figure it out for myself. Which is fine, but it takes longer, and (sometimes) wastes material. So once I figure that craft out, I like to share a tutorial so everyone can benefit from my trial and error. I try not to repeat tutorials that have been done by someone else. No need to reinvent the wheel!

I found a picture of this shamrock hair clip on pinterest today. It was linked to an Etsy listing. Now, there are two types of people in this world, those who craft, and those who buy crafts. Crafters do not buy crafts because they can make everything themselves, and have fun learning how, right!? So I set out to learn how. 

Supplies:

3/8" grosgrain ribbon

Alligator clip

Lighter

Scissors

Hot Glue Gun

Jewel (optional)

Cut 6- 2 1/2" strips and one 4 1/4" strip to line the clip.

Make sure to heat seal the ends. 

You will work with 2 strips at a time. Take two strips and glue them together at a 90 degree angle. 

Take the strip on the bottom and flip it over, glue the end to the second ribbon, right next to the first end.

Now take the second ribbon, flip it over, weave it over, and under the first ribbon. Glue the end of the second ribbon on the underside of the first ribbon, right next to the other end of the second ribbon. 

Now make two more!

Glue one leaf to the alligator clip.

Glue the over leaves, overlapping a little bit in the middle. 

Add a jewel embellishment in the center if you like. 

And you're done!