Making A Halloween Costume, Need To Know How To Measure Elastic?
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 at
5:40 pm
I am making a halloween costume for my infant grandson. I work for a chocolate company and want to make him to be a bag of MM's . I need to know how much elastic to put across the bottom. I can't remember the elastic ruling. Is it half the elastic to make it snug or double the elastic of the width of the garment. I want it to fit like baby nightgowns. thanks help quickly would be appreciated.
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Elastic is stretchy, so you would want less elastic than the hem of your garment. Different elastic stretches differently; I’d recommend holding a tape measure against it and, holding one end, stretch about six inches as far as you can on the tape measure. Most often it will at least double in length to twelve inches. If that is the case, you would need a piece of elastic half the length of your hem.
Different people and applications would also impact how much elastic to use. If doing a waistband, you would probably want it pretty snug, so a ratio of half the elastic to the hem length should be fine. If doing a hem at the knees or arms, you’d want the elastic perhaps a bit looser to allow for more movement. Elastic at the wrists would probably be pretty tight: only enough to slip over the thickest part of the hands.