Category Archives: Projects
Finished: green dress for me!
I finished up this dress a month or two ago, but then got so busy with Charlie Brown that I haven’t posted it til now. I purchased the pattern & fabric for this dress at least 2 years ago, and … Continue reading
Costuming Charlie Brown: The Finished Products!
Well, the costumes are finished, the sets are built, the lines are memorized… it’s show time! Opening night was yesterday, and the show was great. Happily, the costumes held up, and I’m really happy with how they turned out: Charlie … Continue reading
Costuming Charlie Brown: Snoopy’s costume
My first attempt at Snoopy’s costume was to buy a pair of white coveralls – like what a clean-up worker would wear. I thought I would just add a spot, tail, and collar, and be done. Well… the coverall turned … Continue reading
Costuming Charlie Brown: Striping Shirts
For Schroeder and Linus’ Peanuts shirts, I started with plain t-shirts in blue and red. Since I was a bit picky about the width of the stripes for each character’s costume, I figured it would be easier to add the … Continue reading
Costuming Charlie Brown: Puffy Sleeves
My goal with the sleeves was to make them as puffy as possible. I started with the actual sleeve pattern from the tunic, and made it almost twice as wide and a bit taller (basically figure 2 below). everything you … Continue reading
Costuming Charlie Brown: Collars & Skirts
Sally and Lucy have very distinctive Peanuts dresses – triangular bodice and full skirt, puffy sleeves, and unique collars. Starting from this tunic pattern, I needed to design some extras for the costume myself – collar, skirt, and sleeves. For Sally’s … Continue reading
Costuming Charlie Brown: Multitasking
I am costume designing for Charlie Brown – and my current strategy is massive multitasking. I have 4 costumes currently in progress, 1 done, and 1 yet to start (eek). I’m pretty good at following patterns – the tricky part … Continue reading
Costume Designing Charlie Brown: the plan
This should be interesting. Our church is putting on You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown next month. I volunteered to help with sewing and general crafting, and now I have been declared the costume designer. Having never costume designed in … Continue reading
Reliving my childhood crafts: cross-stitching
For quite a while in my elementary and middle school years, I was really into counted cross-stitch. It had been years since I last worked on a cross-stitch project, but a year or so ago I had the urge to … Continue reading
Button clock
Another clockity-clock. I like it hanging in our dining room, and I like the idea of rotating out our decor as I make (and theoretically sell) clocks. A few more button clock pics at the link.