Black Widow Spider Costume (3744 Views)

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  Step 1 of 16

  Gather your supplies.

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  Step 2 of 16

  With a seam ripper open up each side seam of your black shirt, stopping about 2” away from the under arm seam.

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  Step 3 of 16

  Next you will cut the legs off of the three pairs of black nylon tights.

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  Step 4 of 16

  The tights are going to be stuffed with crumpled up tissue paper and sewn into each side seam of the shirt . With a marking tool lightly mark where each leg will fit into the seam, the measurement should be roughly 2”.

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  Step 5 of 16

  Start crumpling and stuffing the nylons with the tissue paper. We used rectangular pieces about 25” by 20”, crumpled each one individually and pushed them into the tights.

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  Step 6 of 16

  As you stuff the tights leave a little room at the top, just enough to sew them into the side of the shirt, about 2” should be good.

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  Step 7 of 16

  Turn the shirt inside out and pin the nylon legs in place, with the right sides of the shirt together and the legs in between.

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  Step 8 of 16

  Stitch one line all the way down each side of the shirt, trying to follow the original seam line as much as possible.

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  Step 9 of 16

  Now turn your shirt right side out.

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  Step 10 of 16

  Cut a piece of black ribbon about 40” long. Starting at the bottom leg tie it around and knot it about 3” in from the end of your leg. Continue on to the next leg with the same ribbon, about 7” away from the first.

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  Continue on again with the ribbon to the last and top leg, you will move even a few more inches away at about 10” from the middle leg. Tie the ribbon around again and knot it. You can cut the ribbon or leave any extra hanging for added mood and decoration.

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  Step 12 of 16

  After you have sewn the legs into both sides and secured your ribbons the next step will be to cut out the felt center.

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  Step 13 of 16

  With a marking tool draw an outline of the shape you want for the center of your spider costume, we used felt which works very well, since you don’t have to worry about fraying edges. Cut out your shape and prepare to stitch it to the front of the shirt.

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  Step 14 of 16

  With a matching color thread hand stitch the felt piece to the center of the shirt, either tack it on at the corners or do a simple running stitch all the way around. You could also quickly sew this on your machine.

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  Step 15 of 16

  Your finished spider costume should look something like this.

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  Last, you will need to pair your spider top with the proper bottoms. Here we used black leggings and some cute shiny boy shorts underwear.