Since there weren’t a lot of events in 2021, I tried to spend time on more time-consuming projects. I still made some quick stuff, but I didn’t feel that I churned things out.

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The last Hallowe'en costume was Mary from Five Nights at Candy's 3. Apparently the 3 matters. This one again required very little sewing. I bought a long-sleeved t-shirt and knee socks and made the jumper.


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One of my daughters wanted to be a character she made up named Red Raven. I can't tell you much about the character except that she's evidently had a bad time of it since she's all scraped up and her clothes are all torn and badly mended.


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Somehow when the end of the year comes up, I find myself in arrears on posting finished projects. It's time to start remedying that.

This year the boy wanted to be a cheetah. Actually, he wanted to be a wolf but couldn't find satisfactory fabric so he decided to be a cheetah instead. It's basically the same costume as last year except that I didn ( Read more... )

Hallowe'en costumes are finished except that I may end up trying to make some kind of a knife sheath for one of the costumes. Since they all want to do some level of makeup or spray hair color for their costumes, I'm going to wait until Hallowe'en to post pictures.

I even finished my mantle so I have something new for Hallowe'en too. I guess I ( Read more... )

I finished the first and easiest of the three kids’ Hallowe’en costumes last night. It’s some video game character, and all I had to make was a black jumper with big gold buttons. The rest was purchased - a long-sleeved T-shirt and a pair of knee socks.

I finished knitting the fourth piece of my 17th century waistcoat last night and modified the pattern for the back to match the front.

This afternoon we got Hallowe'en costume materials so I finished the waistcoat piece just in time to start those. The costumes don't seem like they'll be too intensive this year, but there is a knit cap so I'll ( Read more... )

2020 was an odd year, no doubt. I was lucky that I was able to go to the George Washington Ball in Williamsburg the week before everything spiraled into chaos. With nothing else going on, I got a lot more time for needlework than usual this year, and by summer I realized I was churning stuff out way too fast. I started working on things that ( Read more... )

Now that we've actually had Hallowe'en, here are the pictures of the clown costumes I made for my girls. I held off taking them because they were going to do makeup and spray hair color, but in the end, they didn't do the hair color and the makeup didn't work out so well.


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When my son found out that fake fur is both really hot and really expensive, he changed his mind from being a wolf to being a tiger. It was probably influenced by finding a tiger print crepe at the store. The pattern is the same one I used a few years ago when I had to size up a Butterick pattern for my girls and used it as-is for the boy. This ( Read more... )