Thursday, December 5, 2013

30+ Days Late

Halloween.  When was that?  Oh, yeah, October.  I made a costume for my kid.  It was actually a long hard road with the costume and probably would've made mediocre blog content, but, again:  pregnant and lazy.  So, blah.

I wanted to make the Goodnight Moon bunny and ordered some of that minky fabric off of ebay.  It was totally the wrong color.  Still blue, but not turquoise.  I have not taken a photo.  You'll just have to take my word for it.  I didn't return it, but I should have.  Lies!  

Then I went with just bunny.  I found some purple faux fur at the fabric store and picked up a lot of that.  I went with Butterick 3238.
All of my calculations led me to believe that this would fit her.  It had a gazillion pattern pieces and faux purple fur went all over the craft room.  I accidentally cut out the wrong size hood.  I whipped up the body part while the kid was at the park and when she got back I put it on her only to discover that it was way too big.  You see, I had calculated her entire height instead of doing the base of neck.  It was like six inches too long. 

No picture of her in it, but this is what I made up.
It's an Easter hue, I know, but it would have worked just fine as a silly little Halloween costume.  

So then it was back to the cutting board.  I had made the smallest size on the last pattern, so there was no where else for me to go with that one.  I went back to my stash and picked out another kid costume.  There was another bunny on it, but I didn't have any more faux fur, so I had to improvise.
I went with the kitty.  So I scrounged through my fabric stash and found a faux leather cat fabric, some faux fur left over from this costume, a little bit of black fabric, and a variety of brown bias tape.  It worked.

She moves pretty fast, so these are the pictures I was able to snag.
For the tail, which you can sort of see in the above photo, I just cut out a tail shape in the faux fur and tacked it onto the back of the costume.  I did not see the point in sewing a tube of fabric, because turning that frustrates me to no end.  Also note that I was too lazy (or rushed, now that I think about it, because this was made the night before Halloween) to switch out my thread at the cuff.
So there you have it.  If I make up the hood on that purple costume (still in a heap on my craft room floor, so I better get to that before the cats shit on it), then she'll have a costume in the future.

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    1. Thank you! She was pretty cute walking down the street that night, going from house to house. It was big enough that I could layer some sweatshirts underneath and she stayed warm.

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  2. Oh she is just the cutest little Kitty ever!! Great job Mom!

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  3. Just saw your chicken apron on The Art of Doing Stuff's Facebook page and started reading. I got to "better get to that before the cats shit on it" and knew I needed to follow your blog. Oh, how I can relate...

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    1. Welcome! I've got one that is always peeing in empty laundry baskets. Why?

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