Beau is Prince Charming -Part 3

Beau is Prince Charming

Decorating

A golden collar is a must for every handsome prince.  I cut this piece out and hemmed it up quite quickly.
The seam allowance from the pattern to the hemmed costume made a bigger difference than I expected and I had to cut the ends down a fair bit (more than I expected).
 I folded the raw ends under and used the stitching to hold them down to hold them hemming in place as well.
 



Photo above shows the costume laid out with the collar sewn down and the velcro pinned down ready to be sewn in place.  In the previous post I showed the velcro pinned down without the collar but I remembered in time that the collar would have to go down first otherwise it would get in the way of the velcro. 

Beau got to have a little photoshoot trying the outfit on before the belt was in place, but all he wanted to do was sleep!

 

Beau is just tooo cute!

Belt is all attached and you can see it quite neatly covers up the seam attaching the maroon to the blue.

The gold belt is what holds this outfit in place.  Normally in the Honey outfits the belly strap is alot wider and further forward, tucking just behind the front legs. 

Instead, for this outfit I wanted the golden belt to sit further back so it sits almost where a real belt would be.  I made it narrower than the belly straps I normally make on Honey's outfits to make it more belt-like.

The smaller surface area of the velcro didn't significantly affect the costumes ability to stay on and despite some rough play with Honey and a friends staffy, Beau's outfit stayed on the best out of all the dogs (and better than some of the humans!)

 

The epaulettes were the last bit of decoration to be added.

They were fairly straight forward, half an oval cut out with a small amount of extra material on the straight edge for the seam allowance.

I didn't do the seam before attaching the epaulette.  Instead I folded the seam under the epaulette and then attached the epaulette, making sure to go over the seam, hemming and attaching in one go.

 

I then got this fancy bit of edging which I found in the ribbons and lace section and pinned it around the outside of the epaulette, overlapping a little so the epaulette will be sewn beneath the edging. 

Final photos in the next blog post showing Beau in all his Prince Charming glory and a wrap up of both Cinderella and Prince Charming costumes.