I feel like I've probably set the bar a bit high with my sweet pea's first Halloween, but I couldn't help myself. I made her two costumes (well, one and a half) for two different Halloween events:
I say "one and a half" because I already had the Princess Leia hat/wig - it was a baby shower gift from my cousin Erin - so I only had to make the dress and belt. It was a very last-minute, because the neighborhood party was in two days and I needed to get more fabric for the Reptar costume. So the dress was very quick-and-dirty.
I made a slight miscalculation when I cut out the dress, so I had to add a panel in the back to add more room.
I made it up so quickly that I didn't really take any in-progress photos, other than this mirror selfie of me trying out the hood piece on my sweet pea over the hair:
The dress was so simple - just a t-shape with some flare to the skirt and sleeves, and the hood was just a strip of fabric sandwiched in between the neck opening and the collar. I hemmed the front edge of the hood, the sleeves, and the skirt hem by hand as that seemed easier than hemming stretch fabric on the machine.
I made the belt in about five minutes, pretty much on the way out of the door. It's cardboard from a box of crackers, tinfoil with the shiny side in, and Scotch tape.
I used more Scotch tape to attach the two ends around her middle.
I got a few shots of her wearing her costume at the October 20th party:
And today we did a quick photoshoot with her and her Daddy's R2-D2, just because:
We tried really hard to get a non-blurry shot of her "standing" next to R2, and we did get a few decent ones. She can't stand on her own yet, so all things considered I think she did an excellent job!
Ok, that's enough picture-taking, Mom and Dad!
Princess Leia for a neighborhood party, Reptar for trick-or-treating
I say "one and a half" because I already had the Princess Leia hat/wig - it was a baby shower gift from my cousin Erin - so I only had to make the dress and belt. It was a very last-minute, because the neighborhood party was in two days and I needed to get more fabric for the Reptar costume. So the dress was very quick-and-dirty.
I made a slight miscalculation when I cut out the dress, so I had to add a panel in the back to add more room.
I made it up so quickly that I didn't really take any in-progress photos, other than this mirror selfie of me trying out the hood piece on my sweet pea over the hair:
The dress was so simple - just a t-shape with some flare to the skirt and sleeves, and the hood was just a strip of fabric sandwiched in between the neck opening and the collar. I hemmed the front edge of the hood, the sleeves, and the skirt hem by hand as that seemed easier than hemming stretch fabric on the machine.
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I made the belt in about five minutes, pretty much on the way out of the door. It's cardboard from a box of crackers, tinfoil with the shiny side in, and Scotch tape.
I used more Scotch tape to attach the two ends around her middle.
I got a few shots of her wearing her costume at the October 20th party:
And today we did a quick photoshoot with her and her Daddy's R2-D2, just because:
We tried really hard to get a non-blurry shot of her "standing" next to R2, and we did get a few decent ones. She can't stand on her own yet, so all things considered I think she did an excellent job!
Ok, that's enough picture-taking, Mom and Dad!
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