How I Made a Flynn Rider Costume

Visit if you would like me to make you a custom costume or anything else you want! In this episode I show you how I made my Flynn Rider costume! I am super happy with the results and I hope you enjoy how my journey. This is the full video of my project. If you want to jump to a specific part, there are time stamps near the bottom of this description! Check out this cool Rapunzel dress project if you need more Tangled cosplay! After recently watching Tangled in late September I decided being Flynn Rider would be an amazing Halloween costume. I went out and I purchased a beginner sewing machine and got to work. Having never sewed before I had no idea what shapes to make the patterns. I went to the thrift to store to find a cheap jacket that fit me how I wanted the vest to fit. After cutting off the sleeves, (because well its a vest) I began to cut the suit into pieces. My original idea was to cut it into 4 pieces, two front pieces, a back piece, and a shoulder piece. The collar decided to not play nice and needed to be cut from the shoulder piece. Once I had these basic shapes created, I transferred them to pattern material. Pattern material is used to create stencils to replicate a garment over and over again. Even though I am only making the one vest, I decided this was a necessary step. It would prove to be helpful when I cut the same shape out of both the outer blue material and the quilted liner. When I was buying the material I had to make the decision to go with more of a suede material over a stiffer leather. Also finding a good color was difficult as it seems his vest changes colors slightly depending on the lighting in the scene. I decided on the suede as I saw some other makers make it with a similar material, I also thought it would be more forgiving on my first project. I also bought a liner for the inside. This was to provide me some warmth and some structure to the vest. It would make it look more like an actual vest than a thin costume vest. The first things I needed to do were to cut these basic shapes out of the two materials. I added a half inch of seam allowance across the board. This is for when you sew the materials together there is enough space to make it easier on the seamer. I think. It made it easier for me. The basic shapes I made were the collar, shoulder, back, and two front panels. Each piece had quilting lines that needed to be added before final assembly. That was a huge lesson that I learned throughout this entire process. You always need to be thinking one step ahead to keep track of what you need to do. It’s easier to sew when things are still flat, for example for the belt loops and the clasps I wanted to sew these details on while the pieces were flat. Once all of the details were on I had to sew all of the pieces together. This had to be done completely inside out to avoid seeing the seams. This proved extremely difficult on the pieces that had lots of curves like the back to the shoulder piece. With a little patience and some pins I made my way through. The next step was to do the leather work. Like my sewing skills I also had no leather skills. I had to make his belt, as well as his satchel, and his leather boot covers. I needed to add the details to each of these pieces before staining them, I did this with a knife and hand etched the belt cross hatch pattern and the strips on his boot covers. When i assembled the satchel I ended up using the machine as it was rated for heavy duty. I had a hard time sewing this together and should’ve have the correct tools. But it worked! I had a phenomenal time making this project and I always enjoy a challenge. I love taking on projects where I need to learn a new skill because the best way for me to learn is to deep dive into a project. This has influenced my new pattern of videos. Instead of producing a weekly video, I want to switch to longer monthly videos. I may also space these out. So it might not be one full project a week but a part of a project. Kind of like my room conversion. 0:00 - Learning how to sew 1:48 - Starting the Pattern 5:28 - Making a muslin vest 9:40 - Making the vest 18:31 - Begin quilting vest and adding details 22:29 - Vest hardware 26:27 - Begin final assembly of vest 31:29 - Leather working for the belt and satchel 42:20 - Belt pattern etching 44:55 - Final Touches and show-and-tell Watch how I build the studio: Follow me at: Support my videos and get access to exclusive upcoming content!: Let me know any ideas/things you want to see me make in the comments!