First costume done!!

Well, mostly. I need to find socks...I might go with white socks instead of yellow. What do you guys think?

Bug is going to be Charlie Brown.



Here's his shirt (front and back):



I bought fabric that didn't need to be hemmed and I also got fusing paper so I could just iron on the squiggle. I cut out the pattern and ironed it and the whole thing took 15 minutes. That's the kind of project I love!


I might make a second one to post in the shop since I bought a back up shirt (on sale at Children's Place) in case this ended up being a more difficult project.

As for the rest of the outfit, he already has a pair of brown shorts and brown shoes. So, like I said, we just need the socks.

Next up is Monkey's Snoopy costume. My plan is to make a pair of white flannel pants (an easy project) and use a white hoodie to make the Snoopy ears and body. Hopefully it works out.

After that it's two dresses for my sister and me (Sally and Lucy) and a striped red shirt for my brother-in-law (Linus). The dresses are the big question. I don't sew with a pattern very often. Cross your fingers!

Halloween Costumes

The three Fates. I used second hand black dresses then draped and sewed sheets to make our greek inspired outfits. Each one is a different style and length. Then we used gold rope to tie around our waists. Megan (far right) hand sparkly gold thread representing the thread of life, I had gold scissors to cut the thread of life and Whitney has a spindle with the thread of life twisted around it.



The spindle is a work of combined genius (Megan and I). We wandered around Michaels till we thought of an appropriate solution. This is a wooden bracelet with gold ribbon wrapped around it to look like spokes, taped on with duct tape. Then I broke a piece of a wooden rod and made it pointy and wrapped it with duct tape and attached it to the "wheel." We spray painted the whole thing gold and TA DA! Spindle town!!
Our hairdos. I did them. I have socks in my hair to make it bigger. Whitney has a curler for volume.