How to make a “Leshy” camouflage suit for hunting with your own hands?

• August 29, 2018
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Fans of sniper or hunting often wonder about camouflage. One of the best solutions is the “Leshy” shaggy camouflage. It’s not difficult to create a hunting suit with your own hands, but you can buy it. If you purchase foreign-made camouflage, it will probably be designated “Gilli.” It's not very difficult to make. You can even make several different options.

Introductory information

There are three versions:

1. Full set. Includes jacket with pants.
2. Cape poncho.
3. Jacket-hoodie.

The simplest is the second option. It’s not difficult to create such a “Leshy” camouflage coat with your own hands. The poncho cover is both comfortable and versatile. The most difficult option is a complete set, which consists of a jacket and pants. But it provides the best camouflage. Everyone is free to choose exactly what they like.

Suit material

When creating different versions of a costume, there are common points. Let's take a quick look at them. You should start with the necessary materials:

1. Baby net. The more of it, the better. The fact is that part of it will have to be spent on experimentation in order to choose the best color for camouflage. Usually, 3-4 meters in length and one and a half width are enough for making a suit and preliminary work. The original color of the mesh used does not matter. But the cell size should be limited to the range of 1-2.5 centimeters.
2. Jute thread. To obtain it, you can use brown bags designed for storing potatoes. Jute twine is not suitable because it is too stiff and thick. Considering that after painting and drying these properties will become even more pronounced, it will be extremely difficult to work with. Therefore, it is better to buy jute bags and pull out the required thread from them.

Shoes for Leshak

The goblin wears woven bast shoes , but without certain skills, you are unlikely to weave them.

Besides, imagine how uncomfortable your child will be in real woven Russian bast shoes .

Bast shoes can be made in the form of thick overhead covers that the child will put on along with sneakers.

Sew two identical bags according to the size of your baby’s feet, and pull the laces into the top of them.

Using laces you can secure the covers to children's feet.

There is a simpler and more creative option - to paint ordinary white socks using a braided print.

Such shoes require laces on both sides so that it is possible to put the socks on the shoes and secure them.

You can tuck your pants in them and tie strings.

Ordinary moccasins in the desired color range - green, brown, decorate with acorns, leaves, pine cones, grass.

You can shred rag strips and fasten them to moccasins and weave them using the wicker bast shoe technique.

shoes an excellent option for bast shoes. Yes, not just from threads, but from an old T-shirt.

Take a beige or orange T-shirt and cut it into long ribbons two centimeters wide.

bast shoes from it later .

If you are skilled with knitting needles, then knitting bast shoes for Leshy will not be difficult for you.

Cast on eight stitches and knit in the round, increasing at the ends.

When you have the sole fabric of the desired size, knit in rows without adding loops.

Having reached the height required for the toe and heel, proceed to separate knitting of the oval part of the top of the foot.

The same strips are used in knitting four ties, each sixty centimeters long.

Two ties are attached on both sides of the heel area and lace the shin of each leg, to the middle.

These bast shoes are created in a rustic style and are in perfect harmony with the image of the forest character - Leshy .

A photograph of a child in this colorful image will take pride of place in your home.

What else will you need for the costume?

You will also have to purchase:

1. Paint. When choosing, you must look at what fabric it is intended for. It is necessary to focus your attention on those that can dye both synthetics and cotton fabrics. The appropriate color is selected by trial and error. It is recommended to consider several shades of green, black, olive, yellow, and soft brown.
2. To sew individual parts of a camouflage suit, you need to use about one hundred meters of ordinary white nylon thread. Its thickness should be about one millimeter.
3. You will also need about 25 meters of nylon cord 3-5 mm thick. It is necessary to strengthen (reinforce) the suit at the edges.

It’s quite simple (albeit time consuming) to make a “Goblin” costume for hunting. Anyone with patience and perseverance can create it with their own hands.

How to make accessories

In order for the Leshy costume to acquire the appropriate appearance, it must be supplemented with certain accessories. For this character, these are leaves that can be drawn on paper, cut out, transferred to fabric and made double-sided. Islands of bright green fur with short pile will also look original, on which you can glue real acorns from the forest and homemade toadstools with hot glue. Mushrooms can also be sewn from fabric and stuffed with padding polyester or crocheted.

To make a toadstool, you will need scraps of white and red velvet. The leg is made from a rectangular piece, which is sewn and stuffed with filler, then tied along the edges with a thread and the holes are sewn up. For the hat you will need two mugs made of red and white fabric. On each of them you need to cut a small triangular piece from the middle to the edge, so that after stitching the circle will take the shape of a cone. On the outer red side you need to hot glue or sew on white spots and connect both parts of the mushroom.

Making a Leshy costume for the New Year interesting is not at all difficult, the main thing is to use your imagination and choose the right fabric for the job. For accessories, it is necessary to select fabrics with colorful and rich shades that will cheer up the gloomy base of dark green or brown.

General information about preparing materials

Before you start making the “Leshy” camouflage suit, you should prepare everything that might be useful. In short, the main steps include unraveling the bags onto the threads and cutting the mesh. Only after this can you start sewing the cut parts together. Next, you need to put on the suit, walk around in it, and perform various movements. If you feel comfortable in the suit, you can start dyeing it in the selected color. All this must be done carefully. After all, camouflage depends on how well the clothes are made.

Carnival dress for baby Forest Nymph

If this is an outfit for a girl, then it would be more correct to call it a children's costume - “Forest Nymph”.

A tight-fitting version made of velvet or velor is just right.

When choosing the material you want to work with, we recommend choosing knitwear.

We apply the pattern details to the material and cut out along the contour.

It is necessary to monitor the direction of the textile fibers to allow the material to look natural.

That is, the finished suit should stretch in the right direction.

After cutting the fabric, you can safely start sewing the details of the costume for the girl - “Forest Nymph”.

First of all, you need to connect the middle seam of the pants, and then start connecting the side seams.

And already at this stage we connect the step seams.

Fold over the top of the pants, creating a gap for the future elastic, and stitch the corresponding edge.

We create the appearance of torn pants by cutting the material with scissors.

Now you should sew the shoulder seams, sew the sleeves around and sew the blouse on both sides.

If you decide to create a Leshak costume in the form of a jumpsuit, then do not forget to sew a zipper on the back side.

To sew a jumpsuit, the pants and blouse are joined with seams at the waist.

Our recommendations and photos that accompany this article will help you sew a suit at home.

Detailed description of making the costume

Since we are interested in the Leshy camouflage suit for hunting, and not full-fledged sniper equipment, we will consider the option of making a hoodie jacket. This is something between a full set and a poncho cape. To create a jacket you need the following components:

1. Front part.
2. The back of the product.
3. Hood.
4. Sleeves.

The cutting of the front and back is done in the same way. Parts are cut out in the form of rectangles, which should have a width of one meter and a length equal to a person’s height, measured from ankle to shoulder. Their width is one meter. The edges at the top need to be sewn by one third to leave a hole for the head. Sleeves must be made in two pieces. In this case, rectangles with dimensions of 40x70 centimeters are used. When making a “Leshy” suit for hunting with your own hands, you must take into account that the camouflage robe will have to be worn over various clothes, possibly over a padded jacket. Therefore, allowances should be made of at least 5 cm. When the sleeves are cut, they must be put aside until painting. All that remains is to make the hood. To do this, you need to cut out one square with sides of 20 cm, as well as three rectangles with dimensions of 20x40 centimeters. They are then sewn into a hood. The finished element should almost completely cover a ten-liter bucket.

Shoes for the old forest man

Leshak puts on sandals, but making them with his own hands can be a little problematic, and also think about the convenience for the baby.

• You can sew over-the-shoulder covers from thick, dense fabric that can be worn over regular shoes. Sew two identical bags according to the size of your legs, pull the lace at the top to secure them to your legs.
• Decorate simple thick socks under antique bast shoes, sew laces on the sides and put them on sandals or slippers. You can tuck your trousers in them and tie strings.
• Decorate rag moccasins in the desired color - green, gray, brown, khaki - with all kinds of forest decor (acorns, chestnut cones, leaves, grass).
• Cut strips of fabric and sew them onto rag slippers, weaving them in the form of wicker bast shoes.

Realistic knitted bast shoes will be an excellent addition to Leshy’s outfit. How to knit Leshak's bast shoes with your own hands? To make them, you will need an old beige or orange T-shirt. The product is cut into long strips about 2 cm wide. Bast shoes are then woven from the resulting ropes.

Using a crochet hook, pick up a chain of 8 loops and then knit in the round with additions on the end sides until a fabric the size of the sole appears. Next rows are knitted without adding stitches. When the height is sufficient for the heel and toe, the oval part of the top of the foot is knitted separately. Four ties about 60 cm long are knitted from the same strips, then two are attached to the top of the heel.

These laces are then wrapped around the leg to the middle of the shin. These bast shoes are very similar to real rustic ones and will perfectly complement the New Year's costume of the devil. A photo of Lesovich in such a suit will be very colorful and will take a separate place on the fireplace, wall or in the family album.

Coloring of materials

Once the mesh is cut and the bags are unraveled, you can start experimenting with coloring. There is a wide scope for imagination here. But you need to remember that you need to paint strictly according to the instructions. Before starting the process, you need to check what colors the purchased paints give on different fabrics. For example, if you use a green synthetic dye on jute threads, you can get a dark olive color as a result. However, for nylon thread it will correspond to what is stated on the packaging.

Once you have decided on the colors, you can begin the main painting. Initially, it is necessary to divide the skeins into several groups. Each of them will correspond to a specific camouflage color. Please note that they may be shaded. For example, using dark green and clay in equal proportions will make the costume appear more brown to people. You also need to decide on the basic coloring. It should be applied not only to the largest number of skeins, but also to parts cut from mesh, to nylon thread and to cord.

Who is the goblin

Leshy is a fictional character. A rather mysterious creature is the most important forest guard, responsible for order. It lives only in dense forests. In addition to the name, this wood goblin also responds to other names, namely: forest man, leshak, forest man, connecting rod, boletus.

His friends are the swamp kikimora, the mermaid and the devils, so all forest inhabitants and birds are afraid of him. In modern fairy tales and animated films there is no such hero as the goblin. But in almost all old cartoons he appears and appears there as a zealous fighter for purity in nature and the environment. The goblin openly shows his hostility towards people who in any way try to desecrate nature or be indifferent to it. If good people get lost in the forest, the forester unobtrusively guides them with all sorts of hints, thereby helping them get out of the dense thicket.

The goblin, on the contrary, begins to confuse and frighten bad people with all sorts of sounds and rustles, as a result of which a person can circle for a very long time and constantly return to the same place for a long time. But since the forester is not an inherently evil creature, but a mischievous one, after a while the lost traveler still finds the right path. Not without the help of the forest man, of course.

The goblin always looks different, since it is a creature with many faces, but in most cases it is a small man who is covered from head to toe with moss.

Drying

After dyeing, the stage of preparation for using the costume begins. The first step is to dry it thoroughly. Before doing this, all parts must be rinsed well. Otherwise, even a little rain will cause the camouflage to fade.

Your clothing should include a variety of shades of olive, brown and green. You need to dry your suit in the shade. Avoid exposure to direct sunlight. Since natural jute thread has an inexpressive brown-brown color, similar to withered grass, one or two skeins can be left undyed. There is very little left to complete the sewing of the homemade Leshy costume for hunting.

Weaving camouflage

When all the parts and materials are ready, you can proceed to the final stage - weaving. This is not an easy task, so you first need to prepare the workplace. To do this you will need a machine and a comfortable chair. For the first one, you can use an old drawing board. Install it at an angle and place the net on top. Let the second part hang down.

We lay out the mesh parts and move on to making the so-called shags. They will be a bundle of 4-5 threads of the same length. In this case, they should be folded in half. Since it is the shags that will camouflage the wearer of the camouflage, their production should be approached with special attention. In this case, the following points should be taken into account: the length of the threads should not be too short, nor too long. In the first case, the person will look like a cactus. In the second, they will cling to everything.

Practice has shown that the optimal length of threads is 40-55 centimeters. If you fold them in half, the bun will be in the range of 20-27 cm. Such shaggy hairs will allow you to well blur the outlines of the body on the ground. When making a “Goblin” costume for hunting with your own hands, it is necessary to use one color for better quality, placing it in a square with sides of 9-10 centimeters. Then another square should go with a slight offset. Other approaches can be used, but this one is recognized and popular.

What to make hair from

The easiest way is to buy a wig, but in fact, those accessories that are on sale are not quite suitable for creating the look we need, since the strands in them are too silky and shiny. And if we are preparing a kikimora costume for a girl, then we should take into account that it will not be very comfortable for the child to dance under the Christmas tree in a wig, especially if his own hair is long and thick. An excellent solution in this situation is false strands with clips, which are quite possible to make yourself. For this purpose, you will need plumbing flax, the fiber structure of which is perfect for the role of kikimora hair. You can purchase it at any hardware store. This material can be painted with absolutely any paint or even brilliant green. Before painting, the strands should be separated and boiled separately for 2-3 minutes in a solution with paint. Next, the fibers are rinsed and dried.

A few words about storage and operation

We looked at how to make a “Leshy” costume. Hunting for living creatures in it should be successful. The created camouflage should be stored in a closet, hanging it on hangers, carefully straightening and smoothing out the created tufts. If you store it correctly, they will not turn into curls, curl or cake. If the Goblin suit for goose hunting gets wet due to moving through the swamp, then it should be dried thoroughly.

An important point is that camouflage is needed to set up ambushes, and not to run through the forest in it. If you have to move around in it, you should do so slowly and carefully so as not to damage it. If for any reason (lack of time, experience, material) it is impossible to make a costume, then you should consider purchasing it in a store. That's all you need to know about the Leshy costume. The photos in the article give you a good idea of ​​what the end result should be.