Our jack-o’-lantern for this year: a light bulb.
Happy Halloween!
Yes, this pumpkin is glowing. No, I didn’t do anything funny to the picture, this is actually how it looks, sitting in our window. Happy Halloween!
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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 it’s sat on my shelf ever since. In a bout of frustration with a different dress project, I started this one. And finished it within a week, being incredibly happy to just follow instructions and not try to modify a pattern as I go.
Front:
Back:
Verdict: eh. I really like the casualness of this dress, since it’s floor length but not fussy. The armholes ended up too big, however, and it would have required lots of ripping & restitching to fix it. I left it as is, and try to keep my arms down. =)
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 Brown & Lucy
Snoopy on the doghouse
Linus & Sally
Schroeder
Designing the costumes for Charlie Brown was a great project for me. It forced me to try some new things and do more than just follow a pattern. It also gave me lots of stuff to blog about. =) Now to dream up my next project…
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 out to be very plasticky looking – not good for a furry dog costume.
My second attempt was to purchase 3 yards of white fleece. I traced the basic shape of the coveralls to get started. This is constructed with one piece for the front, two for the back (with a zipper), and individual sleeves.
To create Snoopy’s spot on his back, I cut a rough circle from black fleece. After I added the zipper to the back, I sewed half the spot on, and attached velcro to the other side of the spot. The spot “closes” over the zipper, so all you see of the zipper is the top few inches.
I sewed Snoopy’s distinctive black collar with more black fleece. The nice thing about fleece is that it’s stretchy, so sewing a round collar didn’t require any fancy pattern or sewing, just stretching a bit as I went. The collar covers the top edge of the zipper and gives a much cleaner finish than raw fleece.
Snoopy’s tail took the most fussing. I started with a simple tail shape in white fleece:
I turned it inside-out, and stuffed it with polyfill. It took some trial-and-error to find the right amount of stuffing to keep the tail’s shape and also be flexible and sittable, since Snoopy spends a lot of time lying on top of the dog house.
back view
Snoopy’s costume was pretty easy to put together, mostly because it’s not fitted at all. Fleece is great material to work with, since the raw edges won’t fray. I didn’t even finish the edges of Snoopy’s spot. The only thing I feel bad about is that this costume is hot! The person who is playing Snoopy is going to be burning up on stage, but at least she’ll look fuzzy.
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