And now, what can I do with it? You know this is a rhetoric question… 😉 P.S.: the cotton jersey that I ordered online arrived the day of the play, sigh, too late.

*While I was sewing the monk habit, my son made a crucifix with lolly sticks and twine to complete his costume. You can keep separate the hooded cowl or sew it to the tunic neck seam, as I did.Īnd now, follow the instructions on the fabric dye sachet to have a more realistic version of a monk robe! Actually, I expected a more intense colour I had to use two sachets as one (50 g) is enough for 250 g of fabric while I had about 400 g cotton fabric. Make it as long as the hood base. Sew together the hood base and the cowl neck gathered (dotted lines). Hand sew the seam of the neck cowl with a longish straight stitch, then pull up the threads on each side to gather up the fabric. (3) In the two-layer right remnant mark a trapezoidal shape ( hood), cut it and sew where you see the dashed line. (2) In the two-layer left remnant mark a semicircle ( cowl), cut it and sew where you see the dashed line. Hem the sleeves (about 10 cm for my son) where you see the dashed line. Sew both sides where you see the dashed line in the pattern.

For the accessories: 1.5 m cord, crucifix*įold the flat sheet in half-length, and in half again, you will obtain a rectangle 120×85 cm. Mark the sleeve, the half front (=back) tunic (1) and a quarter neck-hole, following my free printable pattern. Cut through the four layers where you see the thick line in the pattern.

Brown fabric dye (optional if you are lucky and have a brown sheet!).Cut and sewed in less than an hour from a white flat sheet, brown coloured in an hour, sun dried in two, here is my monk costume! Brilliant! I jumped at that idea straightaway. He was not happy at all… until a friend of mine, mum to another “monk” at school, enlightened me: “I made and sewed the monk costume from a WHITE sheet, which I have coloured then with a brown fabric dye”. I tried to convince my son to wear a brown t-shirt with a cord tied at the waist, in a minimalist way. I searched it in the bedding drawers, fabric and cut-outs stash and in all the boxes in the garage, only to remember, after a while, that I had donated it to a charity shop a few months earlier! So, I browsed the internet and all the haberdasheries and the homeware shops in my town looking for a large piece of brown fabric/sheet to make a monk tunic… In the end I opted for an online purchase with delivery in a short time – they said – but after a week I was still waiting for the delivery. I planned to make it out of an old brown bed sheet I had somewhere. I was asked to make his costume only one week before the play. My son was chosen as Bede Monk in a recent school play. Once I donated an unused brown fitted sheet to a charity shop, only to discover months later that I needed it for my son’s monk costume for the forthcoming school play… Contact us by clicking the “Help” button above or by calling our Customer Service Department at 86.It is not always easy to balance my innate inclination to accumulate stuff thinking it can be useful one day, and the need to preserve the space at home. We’re available to assist you with your questions about size, fit, material, color and other aspects of dressing up as this popular historical costume. If you have any questions about which medieval costume is right for you, please contact the costume experts at Spirit Halloween. Add medieval props like a royal sword, dagger or shield and you’re all set to defend your land! From warriors and gladiators to maidens, high priestesses, knights and dragons, these medieval outfits are perfect for any historical fighter or royalty look. Put together, these can make an exciting family or group medieval costume that will take you back to a time when courageous acts were part of everyday life defending the castle. Whether they want a dashing full medieval costume or something simpler like a knight armor kit, you’ll find it right here.

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