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How-to: Last Minute Dandelion Costume

October 28, 2013 3 Comments

 

How-to: Last Minute Dandelion Costume - Hands Occupied It’s probably pretty obvious I love Halloween, but I know not everyone does. Sometimes even Halloween lovers aren’t totally into the spirit, or we’re really too busy to put together a time-consuming costume. Today, with just a couple days until Halloween, I’ve got a super simple, but still cute idea for a dandelion costume that really does come together in minutes.

Supplies

2 yellow feather boas
elastic
needle
thread
scissors
green & yellow clothes
green & yellow makeup (optional)

How-to: Last Minute Dandelion Costume - Hands Occupied

Directions

This project is simply a matter of turning two separate feather boas into one large feather cowl. Start by laying out your boas in two horseshoe shapes, with the ends facing each other.

How-to: Last Minute Dandelion Costume - Hands Occupied

Feather boas come with little loops of string on each end. Start by untwisting the strings. Draw a three inch piece of elastic through both loops, as shown.

How-to: Last Minute Dandelion Costume - Hands Occupied

Fold the ends of the elastic over each other, kind of like folding a letter into thirds to put it in an envelope. Sew straight across the elastic, through all three layers at once.

How-to: Last Minute Dandelion Costume - Hands Occupied

Tie a secure knot at the edge of your sewn elastic and snip off excess thread. Add a piece of elastic to the other set of loops using the same process. When you’re done, your boas will form one giant circle.

How-to: Last Minute Dandelion Costume - Hands Occupied

PS: If you’re really in a bind costume-wise, you can make the feather boa cowl (like really, in a car from the party store to the party) by simply tying the string ends of two boas together instead of using the elastic! 

To make the costume come together, throw on a full outfit comprised solely of green and yellow clothing and wrap your long boa around and around your neck to form the flower part of the dandelion. If you want, you can add yellow and green eye makeup to finish the look. Ta da! Ready to party in under 5 minutes. Happy Halloween!

How-to: Last Minute Dandelion Costume - Hands Occupied

Filed Under: Halloween, How-to Tagged With: costume, dandelion, dandelion costume, diy, easy, feather boas, halloween craft

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Heidi Gustad is a craft book author & content creator in love with primary colors & vintage vibes. She specializes in knitting, crochet, latch hook and macramé, and her first book, Latch Hook: 12 Projects for the Modern Maker, is out now!

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  1. betty

    November 30, 2013 at 7:50 pm

    Pretty cute Ms. Heidi.

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When you have four big skeins of pretty 2 ply yarn When you have four big skeins of pretty 2 ply yarn, you immediately think sweater, right? 
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My wardrobe could use another handmade sweater - I’m thinking something simple, seamed and with a decent amount of ease for potentially wearing tucked in with jeans or skirts. 🤔 
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Yarn: @universal_yarn Fibra Natura Cobblestone in Antarctica and Dragon’s Breath, wound in thick skeins of 100% superwash wool that’s a light DK weight.
How to to knit throwing (a.k.a. English) style . How to to knit throwing (a.k.a. English) style 
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In knitting, there are a few common knitting styles. Most often you’re going to encounter continental style and English (throwing) style on your knitting journey. I recently had an old video teaching continental style get a lot of views. Based on the comments, it was clear the people wanted to also see a throwing tutorial, so here you go! 🧶
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Please note that there is a LOT of variation in knitting styles, and one isn’t necessarily better than another. Most often, I’ve found it comes down to two things: how you were taught and whether or not you’re really into colorwork knitting (which can involve a mix of styles). 
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Longer-term knitters who’ve made it this far: do you prefer one over the other? And why? 
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How to do a one-step provisional knitting cast on How to do a one-step provisional knitting cast on / a.k.a. crochet provisional cast on, scrap yarn cast on
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I read recently that tiktok and Instagram are being used as search engines more and more. 🤔 I thought since I’m going to all the work of making tutorials on YouTube, I should experiment with making a quick version of them for other platforms. There are obvious teaching limitations to vertical video, short-form content like this, but I think I covered the gist of this cast on in a minute. The YouTube version also covers how to unzip this cast on because there was time for it 👍🏻 L1nk is in my profile. 
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I’m very much looking for feedback as I continue to make instructional knitting & craft videos. Sometimes good tutorials are hard to find, and (ideally polite) feedback helps me improve. 
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For the first time in a long time, there’s a new For the first time in a long time, there’s a new tutorial from Hands Occupied! 🎉 The video is live on YouTube & the blog. 
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The post covers what provisional cast ons are & how they differ, and the video covers how to work a one-step provisional cast on using scrap yarn and a crochet hook. (This is a great one to save for future reference.)
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I learned several names for this method while researching this video & post. Crochet provisional cast on, one-step cast on, scrap yarn cast on - if you know even more names for this technique, please share! 
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Yarn: @debbieblissknits Cashmerino Aran 
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