No Sew Taffy Costume

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

• Roll of 3" wide bright pink grosgrain ribbon
• 5/8" roll or UltraBond Heat n Bond
• 3/8" roll or UltraBond Heat n Bond
• Medium adult bright pink T-shirt
• Iron-on vinyl: black, white, green, red
• Cricut® machine
• Green mat
• Weeder tool
• Cutting board surface
• Iron
• Parchment paper
• Download SVG file for Taffy, strawberry
• Scissors

DIRECTIONS:

1. In Design Space, download the image and size "taffy" to be 12" in length. Make strawberry 4" wide. Cut these out on the iron-on vinyl and center on the front of the bright pink T-shirt in the middle of the body of the shirt. Place the black vinyl down first and then the other colors on top.
2. For the ribbon hem, take the grosgrain ribbon and measure around the bottom of the T-shirt with 2" extra allowance. To make the zigzag trim at the bottom, lay the ribbon on a flat surface and cut up into the ribbon about 1" at a 45 degree diagonal. Then turn your scissors and cut back the other way. You will be cutting out triangles to make the serrated trim. Take the finished cut ribbon and iron on a strip of the 5/8" Heat n Bond on the top uncut edge of the ribbon. Remove backing and then place the ribbon at the bottom of the shirt with the serrated edge pointing downward. Starting at the back of the T-shirt, iron it onto the hem of the T-shirt. Iron it on to the shirt at the bottom all the way around and then trim it at the back.
3. To make the flap on the back of the shirt, flip the shirt over face down and 3" to the left of the center of the neckline, at the neckline cut a straight line on the shirt all the way down to the bottom. Iron on a piece of the 3/8" to the raw cut edge on the left. Do not remove the backing yet. On the right side of the cut, fold the cut edge inward 3". Press with your iron to make a 3" folded flap. Lift the raw edge and Iron-on a piece of the Heat n bond to the underside of the cut edge. Iron it to the back of the shirt making the flap permanent.
4. Flip the shirt inside out. Remove the backer paper from the no-flap edge and lay it against the bottom of the ironed flap. Iron this to close the back of the T-shirt but stop short about 3" at the top of the neck to allow head room. This will leave a folded flap when you flip it back right side out. Flip the T-shirt back to right side out.
5. Above the flap on the shirt is where you will put the riddle so that it is visible. You put the answer on the shirt so that it is under the flap. This way people will have to lift the flap to see the answer.
6. To make the riddle, use a plain simple typeface such as Arial. Size it to be 1" tall.
7. Cut the riddle out of the remaining black vinyl on your Cricut and iron on in place on the backside of the costume.
8. For the top of the costume, make the ribbon serrate edge. Cut a piece of ribbon the width of the shoulders and use the Heat N Bond and attach it to one side of the ribbon near the edge all the way across the ribbon. Remove the backing paper. Starting from the top of the sleeve on the left side of the T-shirt, on the back of the shirt, iron it onto the shirt. When you get to the middle of the neckline stop ironing. Go to the other edge of the shirt, on the back, on the right and iron it on in place from the outer edge working your way back to the neckline. When you get to the middle of the ribbon at the neckline, cut the ribbon.
9. Go to the outer edges of both sleeves and using your scissors make the serrate edge to the ribbon just like you did the bottom hem. When you get to the neckline in the middle, snip the ribbon and finish on an even diagonal. They might overlap.