CraftingCon: Villains: Batman's Harley Quinn {2014 Halloween Throwback}

What to do for Halloween?!? It's that time of year again and I have some costume inspiration for you!

Pulling this post from the past! This is my middle monkey about 3 years ago!! Not the costumes this year, though the baby can for sure wear it!

You can check out the whole bunch and our costumes on the Batman Themed Costumes post!

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I'm Jessi, and I blog over at The Berry Bunch! Thanks so much for having me share some inspiration for costume, villain design! I am so excited to share with you the costume for baby girl this Halloween. Crafting Con has been such a fun event! Check out my July competition post for Star Wars here.

Our costumes always center around a theme and this year little man picked Batman. So what to do for baby girl? The hubby suggested she be Harley Quinn. Why not? And, it fits in perfectly with this month! We may not have a joker in our group, but when Harley Quinn is this cute, who needs a joker?

For the Harley Quinn outfit I used Peek-A-Boo Pattern Shop's Aloha Burn Blocker. Baby girl is a funny size, 12-month length with 6-month width. My little skinny minny. I extended the shorts to be pants and moved the zipper to the back and color blocked. Instead of neck binding hubby and I (it was a team effort) drafted the collar and used a minky.

The hat is a basic hood pattern that I just sewed the seam until it was fairly tight fitting. Then added the jester/horns stuffed with poli-fil. and attached the ends under the chin. She did not like it at first, but I think she likes the feeling of the jester/horns bouncing as she runs! She would not stand still for pictures!

And the back! 

Hopefully, this offers some inspiration for your Halloween costume sewing! Isn't it amazing what you can do with any kind of pattern?

Thanks again for having me share for CraftingCon! Happy Sewing!

JessiBerry

Happy Halloween: Spider-Man Themed Costumes {Halloween 2015}

I have grown to really love this holiday. For the last couple years Little Man has been adamant about what our theme is to be, last year was Batman. The year before was Peter Pan, but he was not as adamant and more willing to go with the flow on that one. This years theme was: Spider-Man

Little Man's Spider-Man:

• Top Pattern Used: GYCT Designs Rival Raglan (affiliate links) 
• Fabrics used: 4-way stretch performance fabric
• Modifications: color blocking and adding a waistband
• Embelishments: stencil and webbing design made with puffy paint!
• Bottom Pattern Used: Bonny Leggings by Made for Mermaids
• Hood: Self drafted, kind of... It wasn't too easy! 
• Boots: self drafted like the hood

Husband's Venom

• Top was the free Raglan from Melly Sews
• Bottom were a modified legging pattern. We are the same size, just extended the rise and straightened the legs at the calves a little bit...
• Fabric was mystique performance from Joann's
• bottoms were a shiny pleather looking stuff from our local discount shop
• The hood was the hardest part. We took a saran wrap mold of his head (puncturing holes at the nose and mouth with every wrap) and then taped the whole thing. It took lots of tries with a 'muslin' fabric (my green stuff)

Little Girl's Mrs. Fluffy Lumpkins

• Top: Bimaa Sweater by Lou Bee
• modifications: drafted a bill to add the nose, and ears, into the hood
• Bottom: Lollipop Leggings by Peek-A-Boo Pattern Shop (affiliate links)
• modifications: Added a waistband instead of folding down the top with elastic

My Vulture

• Top: GreenStyle Creations Centerfield Raglan
• modifications: extended the front to accommodate the pregnant belly
• Bottoms: Peg Legs by Patterns for Pirates
• modifications: maternity modification
• The fabric was a green knit from the local discount shop
• Wings: I just used extra green fabric and the husband was going to paint it to look like feathers but... 
• Cowl: I took a piece of white fabric from last year and sewed together to make an infinity scarf.

And for a few more pictures...

Tell Me:
What did you dress up as for Halloween? If you didn't dress up, what did your kids dress up as?

Looking for some Halloween inspiration? 

Check out our past years for costumes:

Batman │ Peter Pan │ Pirates │ Vikings

Happy Halloween!

Halloween 2015: Little Hippo or Mrs. Fluffy Lumpkins {Spiderman Themed & Kids Clothes Week}

More than a week to go and I have my first costume for the season done <finally> and all thanks to the motivation of Kids clothes week! 

My little lady is a hippo for Halloween. Or more specifically if you ask my son, she is the villain Mrs. Fluffly Lumpkins from Spiderman. Who is that? A random character I know nothing about, but trust me. I had to look it up and then wonder how my 4 year just happened to know about this small character in the comics, seriously scaring looking... Here

So, to keep this a little more girly and in the innocence of a little 2 year old girl I just went with a hippo... And I like things to be able to be worn later.

For the top:

I used the Bimaa Sweater by Lou Bee Clothing. My husband found the fabric in the red dot section of JoAnns and I barely bought enough. The hood has an added piece in the front for the mouth/nose. I used felt for the teeth and the ears are the cutest! 

My Favorite picture, look at that seriousness!

That turned out pretty close to a hippo looking head I think!

Can you see those nostrils? Such a pain! But it's gonna have to be just fine! Because I am not ripping those seams one more time to try to get them to stick out just right.

For the bottoms:

I used the Lollipop Leggings by Peek-A-Boo Pattern Shop (affiliate links). I used the same fabric as the sweater but color blocked the stripes on the side to add interest. She loves them and will not take them off once they are on!

It really was super simple. It only took a couple days once I started, and only sewing in small increments. Once I got past the frustrations with the nostrils. I still am happy with how it turned out! So excited that they can be used for everyday wear too. I love the idea of multipurpose items. ;)

How about you?

Have you picked Halloween costumes yet?

Happy Halloween: Batman Theme Costumes: Batman

On Sunday I shared with you our theme we used for Halloween. Batman!

Here is little man's costume... Batman

My inspiration was the Adam West batman. But instead of blue, I used black as that was something I already had at home.

Body

Pattern Used: Peek-A-Boo Pattern Shop's Lullaby Body Suit (affiliate link) size 3T

Modifications: I color blocked the bodysuit in gray, yellow and black.

Embellishments:  I appliqued the yellow circle for the logo and the gold fabric for the belt. The bat logo was stenciled using freezer paper stenciling.

Leggings

Pattern Used: Titchy Threads Fancy Pants Leggings 3T length and 2T width

Hood, cape and cuffs

Self drafted

I used a stabilizer for the bat ears on the hood. Used a button with loop for the cape. The spikes on Batman's cuffs are made using felt.

BAM sign

One thing that little man said he wanted was a BAM sign so her can defeat the bad guys. the shape was cut out of a cereal box, and a strip for the back to make a handle. spray paint your background on one side only. Permanent marker for the lettering. Super fun, easy and quick. Little man was thrilled!

I am pretty satisfied with the outcome. :)

Check out our other costumes this last Halloween.. Here

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Happy Halloween: Batman Theme Costumes

Hope you all had a Happy Halloween!

I am just glad it's done and over with. I love dressing up and seeing the kids dressed up. But, I am ready to move on to other projects without the added stress of complete utter perfection.

And our costume theme from this year, Batman! I briefly mentioned our costumes here with the printable I used to plan the outfits. I think we turned out pretty good!

I will spend the next few days talking about the costumes (something I intended before November), but it'll give me the opportunity to clean-up and play catch up on the mess that is in the craft-room. As that always seems to be the case after this time of year! LOL

Baby Girl: Harley Quinn (See my guest post on Friend's Stitched Together for Crafting Con)

• pattern used: Peek-A-Boo Pattern Shop's Aloha Burn Blocker (affiliate link)
• Modifications: extended to pants, changed collar and cuffs, moved zipper to back, color blocked
• self drafted hood

Little Man: Batman (see my post about it at Berry Bunch Batman Costume)

• Pattern Used: Peek-A-Boo Pattern Shop's Lullaby Body Suit (affiliate link)
• Modifications: color blocked, applique work on belt and bat symbol, paint for bat symbol
• Pattern Used: Titchy Threads Fancy Pants Leggings
• Hood and Cape: Self drafted
• BAM Sign: cardboard

Hubby: Scarecrow

• Hood: self drafted
• Suit: already owned

Me: Cat Woman

• Patterns Used: Greenstyle Creations Centerfield Raglan
• modifications: raised neckline, 4" zipper at neck
• Pattern Used: BurdaStyle Anita Pants
• modifications: used knit instead of woven, 1 piece waistband, sewn up more like leggings than skinny pants
• Cat ears: Wal-Mart

How do you do your costumes for Halloween? Dress up or no? Do you do themes, or no? 

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