Well this past Halloween my little man wanted to be a knight, well lets face it not every one has a suit of armor kicking around in there closet, so we got creative. We went on a Google search for some non-armor ideas and came up with making a tabard. Now for those of you not up on medieval fashion, it is the colours they would where over there suites of armor . So here’s three of our inspiration pictures we used
We had a sword and shield all ready so we decided to use the pattern off his shield for the tabard crest. I sorta traced the pattern out on a piece of paper and for fun coloured it in with the colours he wanted to use. And did A quick sketch of the pieces with the measurements and ideas for trim jotted down .
Step number one was to cut all our pieces out and add the trim to the bottom pieces, and sewed to shoulder pieces together and finished round the neck hole. (remember that your head needs to fit through it.) and finished the side openings.
Next I added the crest to the front of the tabard. I cut it out of felt so it would not fray and gave the pieces a quick top stitch around the edges.
the next step was to attach the top to the skirt, I left the whole side of the top open so that there was enough room to get a jacket under it. The skirt is attached at the waist line.
Here is the picture of the finished Tabard, we used a waffle knit long sleeved under shirt underneath as his “chainmail”. I made him a knit “helmet”, pictured below. when it was all put together it look good and he loved it and still wears it around the house.
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