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?

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Check out our past years for costumes:

Batman │ Peter Pan │ Pirates │ Vikings

Happy Halloween!

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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Lalaloopsy Mittens Fluff and Stuff: A Birthday Girl's Outfit

I got a phone call from my best friend asking if I could help her with sewing a birthday outfit for her daughter's first birthday. Her daughter's favorite lalaloopsy doll was this one:

I am so impressed with my friends sewing! She is super novice and she did an excellent job. I just coached her through the process of sewing the outfits together and it just turned out awesome!

About the outfit... 

We used the GYCT Designs Tinley Tee for the Shirt and modified it for the vest. The shirt is made using a jersey knit and the vest is minky with binding made from the same material as the skirt. You can see my blog post about that here or head over to her Etsy shop and purchase that here.

The skirt is a basic circle skirt, self drafted. We used four 1/2 circle panels to add to the flowing-fullness of the skirt. The material was from the local discount store (and I purshased some in brown at JoAnn's a while before, man do I feel like a sucker!). We gathered the skirt to match up a waistband cut about 1-2" larger than her waist, made a casing for the elastic cut 2" smaller than her waist. I based it off of the tutorial at Dana Made It

The pink jersey (same material as the shirt) is made from the lolipop leggings* by Peek-A-Boo pattern shop* *affiliate links*. We cut them at the capri length.

And here is the skirt in action! So fun!

 Had some photo bombers... :)

And she wore it for her birthday! I am so glad that she liked it! Seriously, my best friend did an awesome job sewing it! I am so proud of her! :)

What kind of outfit would you like to duplicate?

Happy Sewing!