I'm An Arms Manufacturer Today

I have a hamster doll (hamster size) and a mouse doll (about hamster size) that I dressed up in that Roman skirt type of thing that Gladiators and Xena the Warrior Princess used to wear.  The skirt was easy enough to do as a wrap around out of two layers of felt, and I detailed the waistband with one of the fancy stitches on my sewing machine. 

 

They are gladiators, but they also needed weapons. It took a bit of playing around but I figured out how to do a blade and a black hilt out of felt on the sewing machine that looks like a Roman short sword.  Since I had a dozen hamsters and a dozen mice, that meant 2 dozen weapons. 

 

It was weird seeing them all lined up, 2 1/2" long, all trimmed on the edges.  Each animal got one sewn to his right paw so they could do battle, the arms can flip back and forth with them too.  They're kind of hysterical! LOL!