Ok...let me just start by saying that I am by no means a fantastic crafter. I just love doing lots of different projects and wanted a place to document them. I used to read this awesome blog every day when I had a desk job and this girl (who I did not know personally and only found her blog because I was searching for some specific Christmas ornaments one year) was AMAZING. She works as a designer and has the cutest stuff. Anyway...that being said, I think I might turn this blog into a book as well someday just for fun. I spend a lot of time doing these projects and I always forget either what I've done or how I did it :)

Here are some details on the knight costumes I did for the boys this past weekend. Just to reiterate, we attended a Cinderella birthday party for one of our neighborhood friends. The boys were supposed to dress as princes, but Logan didn't think that was cool at all. :) In the interest of coordinating my children, I made them all knights instead

Sadly, the closest fabric store is a good 20 minute drive from my house. Thankfully, the craft store right around the corner sells big sheets of felt in a few different colors and small sheets of felt in about 20 colors. YEAH! I bought one big sheet and 2 smaller sheets for each costume...at a cost of around $5 each (which technically would have made 6 vests based on the size of the larger sheets)
First I cut the larger sheet in 1/2. Pictured below is that half, folded over. I then folded that piece in 1/2 and marked the center with a piece of chalk.

I had used Logan as a model for his vest, but the little boys were sleeping when I made theirs so I found tee shirts in the clean laundry to use as guides. I marked the width and depth of the neck openings and cut those out...

...then I measured about 1 & 1/2 inches away from the shoulder seam on either side to determine the width of the vest. I folded the fabric and cut a smaller rectangle. I didn't take a picture of the next step, but you fold the smaller rectangle in 1/2 and mark with chalk (or free cut) a shield shape.

To make the center emblems, I did the same thing: fold a small piece of felt in 1/2 and draw one half of a shield shape. I cut another 1/2 a shield from a coordinating color, cut that in 1/2 across the middle, flipped one part of it and glued it on the larger shield shape to make a checkerboard pattern (that's hard to understand so check out the final pictures below)

I needed to make a small circle. McDonald's happy meal "littlest pet shop" to the rescue.

This was for Aiden's vest. I wanted to make his with a basketball on it. The hardest part of his was free cutting some small black lines for the b-ball details.

Ta Da! All you need to attach the emblems is a little tacky glue - works like a charm! I also stuck some velcro on the insides of the vests to hold them on the boys, but THAT sticky substance doesn't get alone with felt and the velcro was off within about 10 minutes. Logan's is in green (obviously), Aiden's is the one with the funky basketball on it and Brady's has the stars. Check out my other blog for pictures of the boys IN the vests :)