DIY Bee and Puppycat- Bee's sweater!

So I'm sorry I didn't take progress photo's but I will use the pictures I took after the fact to do this tutorial!

I took this! 

And made it into this!

You need!

- One white Hanes comfort blend long sleeved sweater(I got mine at walmart) Its also says Soft Sweats with Ecosmart yarn. It cost less then $10
- The dye I bought was a small packet of Tulpic Fabric dye, but what ever you want to dye it with is A-Ok!
- You need three squares of felt, Black, White, And Yellow
- Yarn/needle for hand sewing, or machine, whatever works!
- Hot Glue or fabric Glue if you don't want to sew

Directions!

Step one!

Dye that sweater! Just follow the directions and soak less time then recommended. I removed it sooner than later so that the final color would not be a very dark or strong yellow.

Step two Add the Bee

Once the sweater is all dry its time to add the bee and the collar. 

Lets do the Bee first!

• Out of the Yellow felt you only need a smallish circle(depending on how big you want it to be). I left a bit of an angle at one end to give the impression of a nose. 
• From the Black Felt you need 2 or 3 strips as long as your circle and depending on how much space you have on your circle for the strips. You also need a small triangle and a small oval. You could add a mouth if you want. 
• Also you need one small wing from the White felt!
• I used yellow and black thread for this. 

1) Sew/handsew/glue the yellow circle leaving a generous circle of space between the stitch and the edge. 
2) Situate the white wing slightly on top of the yellow circleand sew/glue into place
3) Situate the black triangle at the yellow circle's rear end and underneath the space between the edge and the stitch. Sew/glue into place. 
4) Sew/Glue the small black oval into place.
5) Arrange and Sew/Glue the black Strips into place. 

Step 3 Add the Collar

-For this collar you will only need 4 total pieces of the same shape. This is a peter pan collar and you can look up different references for it. I suggest making the pattern on a piece of paper to figure out how big you want it to be. 

        *I actually folded a piece of white felt(Hot Dog Style) and cut the peter pan collar in a way that the straight top part is on top. The bottom part that has curved edges is on the bottom and the 2 pieces are slightly connected due to the hot dog style fold. 

1) Make your peter pan collar pattern. Decide how big it should be.

2) Cut out 4 pieces(* see that paragraph to make this easier) 

3) Fold the top of the collar over the collar of the yellow sweater and sew/glue into place. Repeat for the other collar. 

And there you have it. One Bee sweater!

See it on me in my awesome Bee Makeup tutorial!

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