Halloween costume sewing pattern help?

[beth_leonard]

I know I have a lot of crafty friends, maybe someone can help me out. A few years ago I remember seeing a pattern on a website (I'm pretty sure it was this one) for doing a simple child's "big belly" costume that could be any animal you liked by changing the color of the fabric

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[altamira16]

I am not the good sewing person that you are looking for, but here are a couple of guesses so maybe some better sewing people can tell me I am wrong.

When you are sewing fabric to be the big belly, the question that I have is what type of fabric. If it is a knit fabric like t-shirt fabric, what you do for the edging doesn't matter because that stuff doesn't fray. I would just put the t-shirt fabric on top of the other shirt and zigzag stitch around the edges and be done with it. This fabric will stretch a little so if the pocket is too tight or small, you can over stuff it some.

With a woven fabric, I am imagining a more rectangular shaped pocket. I would iron a fold about 5/8" of an inch on each side. Then I would sew the bottom edge of this fabric to the t-shirt with the wrong side up, and over the folded bits. Then I would top stitch over the folded edges on the sides. This would hold up for a one time costume that we are never washing. And I am not sure if I would just hand stitch the top seam after I stuffed it. Or maybe I should have sewn the top seam, stuffed it through the bottom and hand sewn the bottom seam which will be hidden in the pants anyway.

But I think that using another t-shirt for the belly is the more forgiving method.

[beth_leonard]

Thanks! I learned how to make my machine do a topstitch but I've never actually done it on a project. It's a shiny fabric that will be the dragon belly. I finished the wings; I think they turned out pretty good.

This is a 4-time costume that will never be washed, with all the parties we're going to in the next week, but yeah, it doesn't have to last.

--Beth

[altamira16]

Ok, what I was attempting to explain here was what I could recall of the gusseted pocket tutorial that is explained as one of the last parts of the snack bandolier. I thought that something like that would work for your pouch, but I was not sure how to create the extra space that would be needed in the pouch.