DIY Kid’s Viking Costume
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He might try to give us a fierce face but our little Norse exudes bundles of cute in his handmade Viking costume. Earlier we shared the first part of our DIY Viking costume tutorial. Pop back to that post for details on how to make the felt battle axe and shield. To complete this costume, here the patterns and tutorials for that incredible yarn beard and the Viking helmet with horns. We designed both with simplicity in mind, but wanted each of the pieces to offer maximum wow. The trick with the beard is to use lots and lots of yarn - we used a whole ball and we think the beard looks great for it! Thread the braids with leather thong or tie around a braid or two at the bottom for added interest and detail.
Materials
- Lia Griffith Wool Blend Felt: Marble, Dove, Doe Brown, Hazelnut.
- Silver Glitter Iron- on Vinyl
- DMC Embroidery Floss - Pearl Grey Yellow Beige, Mocha Beige.
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The Viking helmet is soft and easy to year since it is made of felt with added details of glitter horns. Once you have used a blanket stitch for the main pieces and stuffed them with filler, a low temperature glue gun will be your best friend for adding the stripe details to this project - it makes putting these pieces together really quick and simple. Go forth and conquer, my Viking loving friends!
As always, we love to see our patterns and projects out there in the world, so if you make this Viking costume for the little barbarian in your life then please do share your images with is on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram - we will share our favorites! See you there! ~Lia
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Amanda
October 8, 2016 at 10:51am
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Lia
October 10, 2016 at 9:45am
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Anna
November 30, 2015 at 10:47am
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Michelle
October 10, 2015 at 1:31pm
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Lia
October 13, 2015 at 10:24am
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jintyoo7
October 10, 2015 at 8:57am
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Lia
October 12, 2015 at 3:18pm
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Back to the TopIt’s not clear to me how the mustache and beard and connected. Maybe just attached with hot glue? Could you give me a clear idea of the best way to put these two pieces together?
Thank you
The mustache is just glued on the tips to the top of the beard. You should check the fit first though before gluing. 🙂
Thank you very much! If you will allow me to use your idea of sewing the helmet of a Viking.
I don’t see a materials list with the pattern – just a “gather materials” statement in Step 1. Am I missing something? (It’d be nice to know how much fabric and recommended notions to buy.)
Sometime it really depends on the size of the person that will be wearing it but you can look at the pattern to determine the quantities needed. With Felt most sellers sell either by sheet or yardage and since all the sheet sizes vary so much it just seem to confuse people more if we list a sheet size and then they cannot find it.
Oh My goodness – these are just brilliant 🙂
Thank you:-)