Cutie Man is (& has been) into super heroes. For quite a while, he would wear a hooded towel (which we still have from when he was a baby) after bath time as a cape. Then he started doing it during the day & would want to wear it out to places. I looked around on Pinterest & Google to get some general ideas.
I decided I would make him one out of a t-shirt.
I started out with a large (I believe) tee.
I picked this one up for $1 from Dollar Tree.
I chose green simply because it is his favorite color.
Next, I cut off the front off the shirt along the seams. I cut the sides & along the shoulders, but left the whole collar in tact & attached to the back half of the shirt (which would become the cape.
<-- This is what the shirt looked like after the front was removed. The collar remained in tact so he could slip it on & off.
I thought I had another picture of what it looked like when I was done, but I can't seem to find it. All I did was cut a diagonal line from where the collar connects down to the arm pit area to straighten it out a bit.
Eventually, the collar became quite stretched out & caused the back of the neckline to hang much lower that it should. Earlier this week, I cut the collar in half, cut some excess off each side & sewed on velcro so he can take it on & off, while having it hang more normally.
Here's my lil Cutie Man, Super Hero Extraordinaire at the beach! These were taken after the collar had stretched & before the collar-velcro adjustments.
