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From "DIY Halloween"
episode DHA-104 |
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Click here to download the pattern/template for the featured "3 Blind Mice" mouse-ears design.
Templates may be viewed by using  Materials for the Three Mice: Gray sweat pants and sweatshirts
White gloves
Bow ties
Sunglasses
24" - 30" wooden dowels
Red paint
Gray felt
Fusible interfacing
1" elastic
Safety pins Materials for Farmer's Wife: Housedress
Apron
Rubber butcher knife
Kerchief - Use the pattern to cut two gray ears and two smaller pink ears for each mouse.
- Fuse each pink ear onto each gray ear.
- Cut two strips of gray felt 18" x 2" for each mouse.
- Mark each ear at the bottom at 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 of the way along each side. Snip up 1/2" from the bottom at the two quarter marks. Fold the ears so that there is a pleat along the bottom of the ear that meets in the center. The snips should be at the outer edge of the pleat. Pin to hold.
- Attach the ear to the center of one strip of gray felt by folding the middle part of the ear back and the side parts of the ear forward. Sew it to the strip of gray felt. This will cause the ear to sit upright.
- Place the second piece of gray felt under the first and sew close to the edge along each long side of the strip. Thread elastic through the tube just sewn and use a safety pin to adjust the size of the headband with ears to the "mouse's" head.
Note: If you can find a grey sweat shirt with a hood, you can attach the ears directly to the hood. - Cut a long, narrow, equilateral triangle from grey felt, sew the two long sides together from the point to 1" of the other end, stuff it with batting, and pin the tail to the sweat pants.
- For the bow ties, cut a piece of fabric and a piece of batting or pellon 18" x 6" for each tie. Cut a small strip of fabric 6" x 6".
- Place the batting on the wrong side of the big piece of fabric and fold it over lengthwise so that each side comes to the center. Fold both short ends towards the center and let them overlap about 3". Pin to hold.
- Now fold the small piece of fabric so that two sides meet in the center and wrap it around the center of the other folded fabric. Pull it together firmly and pin it together with two safety pins. Remove any straight pins!
- Cut a piece of elastic 16" long, and thread it through the safety pins and pin it to fit around the neck of the "mouse."
- Paint the dowels red for 6" on each end.
- Dress the mice, paint their noses and whiskers with black greasepaint or eyeliner, add bow ties, sunglasses and walking sticks.
- Dress the farmer's wife and tie the kerchief around her head (not under her chin). Only sew the tails to two of the mice outfits. The farmer's wife will carry the third tail in her hand with the rubber butcher knife as she chases behind the mice.
Products: Clothes are available in sports shops or thrift shops. Fabric and craft supply stores can provide everything else.
RESOURCES :
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Model: 0865733171
Author: Editors of Creative Publishing International
(July, 1997)
To order this title from Amazon.com, click here.
Creative Publishing International, Inc.
Website: www.creativepub.com
Clever Costume Creating for Halloween
Model: 0966125339
Author: Suzanne Singleton
(July, 2000)
To order this title from Amazon.com, click here.
Twenty-nine Angels Publishing
Sparks, MD 21152-9300
Email: webmaster@29angels.com
A Halloween How-To: Costumes, Parties, Decorations, and Destinations
Model: 1565547748
Author: Leslie Pratt Bannatyne
(September, 2001)
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Pelican Publishing Co.
Gretna, LA 70054
Phone: 504-368-1175
Fax: 504-368-1195
Email: sales@pelicanpub.com
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Model: 0810932911
Author: Phyllis Galmebo
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New York, NY 10011
Phone: 212-206-7715
Fax: 201-896-8193
Email: sales@abramsbooks.com
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