i'm making my son's costume

[Aura_Kitten]

when i was a child, my mom always made our costumes herself (i come from a family of 8 ~ 6 kids, 2 adults).

i always vowed to make my son's costumes myself, like she did, and so far every year i have.

this year, it's an alligator costume. i cut out and pinned most of the pieces today and will start sewing them either tonight or tomorrow.

what are you making? what do you consider your best costume?

[marisa724]

My mother always made our costumes too -- or else she would go to great lengths to find us all the 'authentic' pieces for them. (LOL at the memory of her making my dad take me to 'head' shops in the Village looking for cool patches when I was a 'hippie' one year!)

So this is my first Halloween as Mama, and my little man is going to be a monkey with a fez. I am actually almost finished, which is a miracle because last I checked, it's not the day before Halloween yet.

I will try to post a picture if he deigns to try it on for me later.

[iggaboo]

My ds is going to be Captain Hook this year. I am very pleased at how well the coat turned out, only a couple of minor flaws. It is by far the most complicated thing I've ever sewn.

Since he loves playing dress up, I made it a size too big so he'll get lots of use out of it. He loves it and wears it almost everyday already! :LOL

Captain Hook

[Queen Gwen]

This year my older dd wanted to be a witch. We used a McCall's pattern for a black dress, mostly because it was on sale for 99 cents. When we got home I realized it had princess seams -- gack! But, really, it looks nice on her. I'm thinking about getting some red velour and making a Christmas dress off this same pattern.

Younger dd will be a black cat, which is simply a matter of putting together various black stuff we have around and pinning a black boa to her bottom.

Last year older dd had a dress like American Girl Kirsten, complete with apron and bonnet. It was off a Simplicity pattern. Younger dd was Hello Kitty -- white sweats and sweatshirt, I made a fleece hat and bow. I've also made a Rapunzel costume, a wedding dress, Piglet, a pink bunny, a famous ballerina (this involved a lot of tulle). Many of these have been worn on a day-to-day basis year round...we love to play dress up! And many dolls in our house have little costumes, too, which dds make for them.

[Kari_mom]

Queen Gwen, that is so cool you have made a Kirsten costume. I've sewed a Felicity and a Josephina costume myself. I've also made a fire fighter coat that doubles as a rain coat, an astronaut suit, a cow, a monster, and so much princess stuff I can't remember. Oh, and a knight costume. And a witch. And a cat. I think that is all, :LOL. It makes for a full dress up trunk.

This year is the first since I have had children that I am not making costumes. DD is on the brink of being too old, ds1 is wearing a hiking vest with a safari hat, carrying a stuffed crocodile and is a crocodile hunter, ds2 likes the firefighter coat, and ds3, well, whatever, you know? He is only 5 mo. And number 4, poor thing.

[kavamamakava]

Wow. You're actually sewing it. I've never really done that. I just put them together from various things. One year I used wire and pretty fabrics and sewed "petals" on a bonnet to make my daughter a flower. I also pinned a tartan plaid fabric to an elastic waistband for a kilt for my son.
This year they are pirates and I'm going to use their regular clothes and just put them in matching tops/pants and then tie some of their play silks on them along with their pirate hats and soft hooks (I bought those from Gymboree).

[kavamamakava]

Originally Posted by esplynn

My ds is going to be Captain Hook this year. I am very pleased at how well the coat turned out, only a couple of minor flaws. It is by far the most complicated thing I've ever sewn.

Since he loves playing dress up, I made it a size too big so he'll get lots of use out of it. He loves it and wears it almost everyday already! :LOL

Captain Hook

oh wow! i love that!

[kavamamakava]

Originally Posted by Queen Gwen

This year my older dd wanted to be a witch. We used a McCall's pattern for a black dress, mostly because it was on sale for 99 cents. When we got home I realized it had princess seams -- gack! But, really, it looks nice on her. I'm thinking about getting some red velour and making a Christmas dress off this same pattern.

Younger dd will be a black cat, which is simply a matter of putting together various black stuff we have around and pinning a black boa to her bottom.

Last year older dd had a dress like American Girl Kirsten, complete with apron and bonnet. It was off a Simplicity pattern. Younger dd was Hello Kitty -- white sweats and sweatshirt, I made a fleece hat and bow. I've also made a Rapunzel costume, a wedding dress, Piglet, a pink bunny, a famous ballerina (this involved a lot of tulle). Many of these have been worn on a day-to-day basis year round...we love to play dress up! And many dolls in our house have little costumes, too, which dds make for them.

You're inspiring me to make some costumes for my kids to play dress up with.

[Izzybee]

DD is going to be a US Marine this year.
I was inspired by DH's friend (who's in Iraq) when he said he's gonna be a Marine for halloween, it was funny.....
And I thought it would be cool if my lil one was a Marine too

[iggaboo]

Originally Posted by kavamamakava

oh wow! i love that!

Thanks!

[calmom]

Oh, I *wish* I was sewing my kids' costumes tjhis year. They insisted on costumes from the store and I obliged. With the new baby, I'm a little busy.

My favorite costumes that I've sewn for them are my ds #3's bear costume and 2 years ago, my older ds's were dinosaurs, one blue and one green.

[ChattyCat]

I made Emerson a court jester outfit! You can see it, if you click on the link that says Emerson in my sig. The hat's not in the picture, because it wasn't done when I snapped it. I'll be updating the site next week probably. The hat really is the best part of the costume. Since it's his first Halloween, it's the first costume I've made, so I guess it's my fave!

[tuffykenwell]

Love the Captain Hook and Court Jester Costumes! I have all of the pattern pieces for DS' costume traced out and everything cut out except the shirt (see pout on page LOL) so hopefully I can get it sewn up in record time (DH is gonna have to take DS to the park or something for a few hours in the next couple of days LOL!)

Its going to be such a cute costume...but next year I need to not leave the darned thing till the last minute (yeah right!!)

Steph

[Aura_Kitten]

that is an AWESOME coat + hat!

great costumes!

i finished his alligator costume ~ although now that it's finished, everyone mistakes him for a dragon (which he doesn't help at all by running around growling at everyone :LOL ) ~ and he's been wearing it every day since.

[AinNJ]

I am actually almost finished, which is a miracle because last I checked, it's not the day before Halloween yet.

sorry, i didn't get to read the rest of your posts because i'm laughing to hard at that line!!! that sounds *SO* like me!!! ROFL!!!

i'm attempting a devil's costume for ds, but i just got the fabric last night {sigh}. i just hope we dont wind up at walmart saturday night buying one of those ugly plastic costumes!!!

[NinaBruja]

awesome. im in the process of making my daughter a faerie costume. i bought the wings since i figured i dont have the time to actually get those done to my liking in what...5 days.
im a procrastinator.
i usually make my own costumes out of random stuff, they usually turn out odd. the year before i got pregnant i was a butterfly, last year i was way too sore(1 week postpartum after a csec) it was sad i <3 halloween!
this year im going to be a butterfly/mama faerie. were entering a costume contest.
should be fun.

[Knittin' in the Shade]

I always make my kid's costumes too This year's are easy, AJ wants to be harry potter, so we went and got some black stretch velvet to make a cloak/cape, and then and old pair of wire framed glasses of DH's (with lense removed, of course) and we still need to hunt the yard for an appropriate stick. Ethan is wearing AJ's spiderman costume I made from last year, and greg is wearing the pumpkn costume I made 5 years ago when AJ was a wee babe. The best costume I've made was a turtle (complete with quilted, huge stuffed shell) that AJ wore two years ago (and wound up wearing last year on halloween night cuase he didn't want to be spiderman anymore, LOL) The year before that I made an alligator costume, and year before that AJ was a telletubby, I knit a red po hat with the round thingy on top, and made him a red fleece union suit with silver lame on the belly. It was too cute. Lent it to sil and now it's gone

[girlndocs]

I've made all ds' costumes too. He's been Calvin (with a stuffed "Hobbes" and his hair hairsprayed into spikes), a clown, a black kitty and ... the Dread Pirate Roberts from The Princess Bride :LOL All the costumes have revolved heavily around "real" clothes like sweatpants and shirts from Goodwill, then I fly by the seat of my pants to make the finishing touches (that bandanna-mask thing for Roberts was fun )

Sooooo this year he wants to be a Black rider from LOTR, which is straining my creativity, but lots of fun! The main part is a hooded black cloak which will be really versatile for later dress-ups, also black sweatpants and turtleneck (hey, he needed some new clothes anyway :LOL) and, I'm thinking, tagboard covered with black duct tape for the spiky-looking "scales" of gauntlets and boots. Oh, and a tinfoil-covered coardboard sword. Should be neat.

And you should hear him hiss, "Shiiiirrrre ... Bagginnssss ... Trick or treeeeatttt ..."

[ChattyCat]

Originally Posted by girlndocs

And you should hear him hiss, "Shiiiirrrre ... Bagginnssss ... Trick or treeeeatttt ..."

:LOL :LOL :LOL :LOL :LOL

TOO FUNNY!!! I almost spewed water everywhere!! I'm still chuckling about it!

[Carolinamidwife]

The OP sounds just like me... my mom ALWAYS made our costumes. We had the greatest costumes every year. When we were vampires we had full on black and purple satin tuxedos with matching cloaks... every year was great so I vowed I would always make my kids too.

So far I have made a devil costume, a jupiter costume, last year he was a Jellyfish, and this year a Black Widow Spider. I need to get cracking on it... I'm less than half finished. :