TMNT Masks

As Christmas drew closer I was going through all the gifts I had put aside, and I had brought a book each for my nephew and niece. I wanted to put a little something else with them, for my niece it was easy I made her a pillowcase dress but for my nephew that was a little more difficult. He is older than our boys and is in that next age group so I asked my wonderful mother-in-law what he is interested and she came up with teenage mutant ninja turtles.

After some pinerest hunting I deiced on making him some TMNT masks. I went to my local fabric shop and brought felt in green, red, blue, orange and purple, and plain cotton fabric in red, blue, orange and purple. I drew a free hand pattern of half a mask on folded paper and cut it out (by drawing half the mask on folded paper you get a mirror image for the other side), then I got one of my handy helpers (AKA Mr 5) and held in up to their face and made any adjustments where needed. I also made a pattern for the coloured insert section in the same way as the main mask.


I cut out 8 of the mask patterns from the green felt (2 for each mask), and one insert from each colour.

                              (note red insert not pictured)

 
Then cut two 1.5 x 20 inch strips from each of the cotton fabrics for the ties. Once everything was cut out I then began to sew. I folded the 1.5x20inch strips in half width wise so it is now .75x20inches and sewed along one end and down the the sided and turn right side out. Place the opened ended part of the tie between the one of the green of the masks and the insert, pin and sew the insert to the green masks (so the tie is no longer showing) around the edge of the insert and the eyes. Now the tie will not have any raw edges showing.

lastly take the second green mask and sewed it onto the back just around the green section to cover up the sewing of the coloured insert. Sewing on the second green mask adds stability to the mask and adds and bit of depth to it.

 

Come Christmas day and my nephew (aged 8) loved it. I was so sew happy, as soon as the gift was opened my nephew and my 3 older children were all running around with them on (Miss 3 included) I loved that I made the ties nice and long, it make for easy tiring on wiggling kids.  

Thank you for stopping by, this is my first tutorial so I hope it makes sense and you can follow it. and have fun making them for your little turtles.