Oh you guys, his Pickles the Fire Cat costume, in action, was even better than I imagined.
We went trick-or-treating in my parent’s neighborhood and Pickles was thrilled out of his gourd.
He didn’t have any candy, but I’m not sure any toddler needs sugar to be jazzed.
Hope you had a wonderful celebration!
PS – just has I had predicted, we quite literally found the missing mittens the very next day. My son just appeared with them, out of the blue. Sigh.
One of husband’s favorite childhood books is The Fire Cat, and we introduced my son to the book when he was just a year-and-a-half. He loves it. So naturally that’s what he had to be for Halloween this year. Meet Pickles the Fire Cat.
I used a pattern for this, Butterick 3238, and I think it had like 23 pattern pieces or something like that, and some of the pieces called to be cut up to four times. Whoa. Couple that with all of the spots that I had to sew on, and it has to be my most involved sewing project to date.
I made a head piece to go along with it as well as spats.
I also made the most adorable mittens, which he wore for 2.5 seconds, and now they are nowhere to be found. Seriously. I’ve even looked in pots and pans and the oven and all the trash cans in the house. Nowhere. I expect to find them tomorrow morning. That’s fine though, as he has trouble keeping on the costume “extras.”
Something to do with being an acrobatic toddler I suppose.
I really wanted to make a costume for myself (Mrs. Goodkind – she’s so stylish!) and the Fire Chief for my husband. Yeah, that didn’t happen. But I’m pretty proud of what I was able to accomplish.
Happy Halloween!
The other day I was sifting through our Goodwill pile and came across a skeleton sweatshirt. Really? Sweet. I chopped that sucker up and a half-hour later these emerged. They look so adorable on my son. How easy would it have been to make him into a skeleton for Halloween this year? Instead I have spent the better part of a week working on his “real” Halloween costume which I will most definitely take photos of sometime this weekend. I came across another discarded sweatshirt and with my son’s help, we produced these:
I’m starting to get freaked out by the size of his pants. This boy is getting huge – HUGE I tell you! In fact two of the three pairs of 20-minute pants I made last month are getting a bit short.
Bats!
Sorry there was no segue with that one. I thought I’d leave you with a few Halloween-esque scenes from around our home.
Happy Halloween!
Over the past seven days I have sewn five articles of clothing for my son’s fall wardrobe.
The Embroidered Fox Tee for Two
Afterthoughts:
Whew. Thinking I am going to take it a bit easier next time. But it was wicked fun. And my child actually has a few cooler weather clothes now. And I feel like a sewing bad ass. Thank you Meg!
How did you fare?
The Octopus Shirt.
It has chartreuse contrast stitching.
An embroidered sea creature…
and elbow patches.
And I’m in love*.
T-shirt Pattern: Tee for Two by Pattern’s by Figgy’s (made size 2/3 for my two-year-old son)
Embroidery Pattern: Tigerpup
Striped Knit: Fabric Depot
Black Corduroy: Joann’s
*and delirious.
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