- Hello, everyone,
and welcome back to even more
Naruto tutorials from Colleen Cosplay.
So today we're going to be making
the leg warmers for Rock Lee
or Might Guy from Naruto.
Now these leg warmers
happen to be their very own
special obnoxious orange color,
and I cannot find any fabric
that matched this color.
So that means we are going to have to dye
some fabric first.
So I'm starting with this
white stretch fabric.
This is exactly the same fabric as I used
for the arm wraps for Rock Lee.
I'm using the Rit Dye More synthetic dye.
The fabric I am using is
a polyester-type fabric,
so we're going to want this dye.
So if you look at the
instructions on the back,
you have to do this on a stove top
and keep it at a high temperature
while you are dying it.
This is a pot from Walmart,
and it's been advertised
to be able to contain
at least 120 tamales.
And I said that is rather impressive.
The very first thing I'm
going to do is just get
our fabric damp.
Get it nice and wet so it
can be ready for dying.
Then I'm going to take my
pot with 120 tamale capacity,
and I am going to fill
it up with some water,
just enough that the two yards of fabric
can be submerged in the pot.
Then I'm going to shake the dye.
I'm gonna add about half
of the dye container.
Then it asked to add one teaspoon
of liquid dish detergent.
So I added a little bit of that as well.
Now I'm gonna have a few little strips
that I'm gonna test first.
The longer you leave the fabric in,
the darker the dye will appear.
So I had a few different tests.
I left one in for about 10 minutes
and another in for about 20 minutes.
And I just kinda let those dry.
They do appear lighter after drying,
so that's something to
keep in mind as well.
The dye I got is in the
color apricot orange.
I really would've like
to have some other colors
to play around with.
Unfortunately, I was under
the stay-at-home order
and fabric dye for cosplay
is really not essential.
I would've probably
also gotten a yellow dye
or a darker burnt orange dye.
So I dumped the whole two yards of fabric
into the pot.
And I'm still keeping it
on this almost boil heat,
and I'm just stirring it continuously
for those 15 minutes.
And that is gonna keep it really smooth.
You don't wanna just let it sit there.
Otherwise it's not gonna have even color.
I removed the two yards
of fabric from the pot,
and I was able to wash
out any of the excess dye
and let it just air dry overnight.
And now we have a fabric
that is, hopefully,
a color to your liking.
This is what we're going
with for this video.
So I found that the
best way to pattern this
was to cut out a whole bunch of strips.
These strips will all be sewn together
into the leg warmers.
However, there is a lot of seam allowance
to account for.
Patterning can be confusing.
So I'm going to need the measurement
from my ankle to the bottom of my knee.
This is how tall we want
our leg warmers to be.
I measured about 12.5 inches
and then I cut out 14 inches long,
adding some seam allowance.
And we're gonna do some elastic casing,
so keep that in mind.
And I decided to do two-inch wide panels.
This was just kind of me messing around
and seeing what looked
good, how many panels
I wanted on my leg warmer.
The best way to figure this out
is to just keep sewing panels
until it fits around your leg.
And with all the sewing,
I am using a zigzag stich.
I do want this to have
a lot of stretch to it.
And the fabric itself
is also very stretchy.
And now that we know the size
of our final leg warmer size.
So I'm going to lay out our
leg warmer onto our fabric.
And I'm going to cut the lining.
So lining is going to be the shape
of the finished leg warmer.
Now I'm going to sew the
lining to the outside layer,
so I'm just going to put
right sides together.
And I'm only going to be
sewing that top and bottom
of the leg warmer, leaving
the other sides open.
So it's gonna be kinda like
this leg warmer tube thing.
So then we have the outside
layer sewed to the lining,
we can flip it inside out.
Now we want this to wrap around our leg.
It's not going too much as a rectangle.
So we are going to need some elastic.
So I'm going to just top
stitch to create the casing.
I'm just using this straight stitch,
and I'm just stitching along the top here.
I am leaving half an inch for the casing.
So I'm going to take a
quarter-inch elastic,
and I'm going to put a
safety pin through it.
And I'm just going to thread it through
our casing that we have made.
Now this elastic should be accurate
to your calf measurement
and your ankle measurement.
The ankle elastic is going to be smaller
than the calf, and you're
going to finally see
this kinda shape of going
from larger to smaller
for your leg warmer.
And now we only have one seam left.
So we are going to sew this together.
Make sure that you sew together
all the elastic casing,
all the elastic pieces.
Make sure it all gets
into this final seam.
You can trim off any excess
fabric if you would like.
Flip it inside out.
And then your leg warmer is done.
So if you have any
questions, please leave them
in the comment section down below,
and I will get back to
you as soon as possible.
Thank you so much for watching,
and I will see you all in the next video.
