That was kind of a tall order for me. While I've made her costumes before this one scared me a little, but I think I got it. This is what we ended up with:
I wasn't able to get a picture of her wearing it yet, but I did get to see it on her for like a minute and it doesn't look too bad. The gloves are still needed, but those should be easy to make really quick when she slows down long enough for me to measure.
So here's the step by step:
All the material was second hand or cheap t-shirts from the Dollar Tree. The tights are a pair of Lou's from a few years ago and two t-shirts, one black and one brown. Now on to the cutting!
I took the brown t-shirt and cut off the sleeves and cut down the seams on either side. Then I cut off the top neck area and folded each into rectangles. I sewed these for the "boots" of the costume.
Hot glue worked great to hold the "boots" in place on the tights and for putting on the rope accents.
Next I moved on the the pouch. This stumped me for a second. Then I found the perfect thing. Those sleeves worked great! The hot glue gun holds them together and leaves a nice unfinished look.
I don't have any pictures of working on the shirt for the costume, but it wasn't hard. I trimmed off the collar of the curt up brown shirt and played with it until it made a nice design on the front of the collar on the black shirt. I think it came out okay.
That's the costume for this year! Almost finished just in time for the Halloween party and some trick or treating!
Oh yeah! I have to introduce the newest member of the animal family. Lou won a goldfish at the Oktoberfest this weekend and it took some creative thought to find a tank for the lil gal. Her name is Eva and you can guess who she's named after!
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