Pirate Sora TUTORIAL - PART ONE: Pants/Vest (Patreon)

Alright guys!! Here we go, starting off I will be showing you guys how I made the pants for Pirate Sora!

So, I HATE HATE HATE making pants, I just do and if I can avoid making them from scratch I will. So, I headed over to my local thrift store and found these two pants that I felt would be good to Frankenstein into Soras lovely pirates trousers. Soras Pirate pants are meant to poof so I made sure I got pants that were a couple sizes larger than my own for this!

I tried finding pants that had similar enough textures as well! You could make the pants yourself if you wanted to as well, the pattern for my Riku pants from my Riku tutorial would work rather well for this! ALRIGHTY! now was the fun part, cutting them all up into strips!

This is how my lighter shade pants looked after cutting them apart! I decided I wanted to make a cut every three inches, I came to this conclusion by measuring the circumference of each pant leg and then dividing them by 6.

And here was my stripes for the darker pants! And after this was rather simple, I just sewed the stripes onto where I did the slits for my pants, it was time consuming but it actually worked out really well!!

For the bottom part of the pants, I took some large scraps of the pants I had left over and made a "waistband" rectangle shape and sewed those to the ends! The very last thing I did was dip dye the pants into some brown/black fabric dye to get that "I have been walking through the dirty sea" look!

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Now as some of you guys know when I make patterns for my cosplays I use clothing that exists already that fits me and I cut it up and use that as a pattern, so I bought a dress shirt from the thrift store as well and spliced it up into my pattern for the vest!

For my fabric I used a a red linen for the base, a brocade for the trim and a silky dark red fabric for the lining!

For the brocade trim here is basically the shape I ended up settling with for the vest! I basically made two of these and used them on both sides of the vest.

I then took some of Yaya Hans gold stretch fabric and used that for the bias! This was the only gold I could find that did not look cheap/fake and I really liked the muted tones it had!

I sewed it down first wrong side up and then went back over it with the gold fabric tucked underneath the red to create the bias look. The edges were not the cleanest but that is fine cause I ended up satin stitching hold thread along all the inner borders of the gold fabric. 

After that was added on I then attached my lining, the way to do a lining is rather simple, you are basically making the vest again but sewing the fabrics on the opposites sides you normally would. Once your lining is done you can then sew them down to the inner seams of your vest!

The buttons were then hand sewn on and I created button holes on the vest using the button hole maker on my sewing machine.

The vest was actually a little to vibrant for my liking so I went back and hand dyed the vest! I did this by bringing a pot of black rit dye to a boil and then taking the pot with me to my garage, I took a sponge brush and then began to spread the dye myself onto the coat, I did this by hand cause I did not want to dye the other fabrics, I only wanted the linen part of the vest to dye and it worked out rather nicely!!

And with that I was part way done (I look so out of it lol, this was probably 3AM)!! If you need me to go more into the very basics of sewing for this just let me know!! And if you have any questions at all feel free to ask away!! part two will be up next week!