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For the Thing 1 & Thing 2 costume I sewed 3/4 of red knit fabric the width of their body, added white circle felt and simply wrote Thing one Thing two on it. And for the detail at the top I hand sewed it pinching the fabric together and ran the needle across inside where … Read more
We wanted to be something that would make people laugh. We thought that maybe we could pull these two off. And we did, we were a hit. It was probably two of the best costumes ever! And we had endless Halloween photos taken of us! Total Spent: $150
I had more fun being Pretty Woman than I ever have during Halloween! We were in New Orleans for Halloween. I even got engaged in my costume that night! (My boyfriend was Edward (Richard Gere’s character). For the dress, I dyed the fabric for the skirt and had side seams, and darts around the top … Read more
This jacket started off as a tablecloth from Goodwill. The pants came from a pants suit at Goodwill as well. I wanted to get a really close fitting jacket, so I used Simplicity pattern #3628 as my base. I am a pretty novice seamstress but since I could make this w/o a collar, sleeves, or … Read more
After seeing the film, as a kid, I fell in love with the movie! One of my favorite actors ‘Tim Curry’ and also loving the design of the costume, I decided to make my own Stephen King’s IT – Pennywise the Clown Costume. I was given an old Singer sewing machine, for free, so I … Read more
I made this homemade Cat in the Hat kids costume for my 4 year old’s world book day. The suit itself was just a large baby-grow dyed black, with fake fur sewed to the middle, a leg off a pair of tights for his tail, the hat was purely made from cardboard – then I … Read more
This is how we made this Goonies Group Costume. Sloth: Superman tee with sleeves ripped off, red suspenders, jeans torn off, workboots and head scarf all from our closets. Pirate hat, sword and bubba teeth from the costume shop. Mama Fatelli: Black dress, granny shoes from thrift store. Pearls and pistol from our collection. Beret … Read more
Who you gonna call? – Ghostbusters!!! This Homemade Ghostbusters Group Costume is a great costume idea for a group of five, especially if one guy has the right size to do the marshmallow-man. For the Ghostbusters costumes we took four regular worker’s overalls and bought some patches, Ghostbuster logos for the sleeves and one for … Read more
I started to make a costume for my dogs for Halloween and my idea was penguins. Shortly after I started the project I just couldn’t stop. Hence I made a Mary Poppins costume for the 3 of us to hand candy out to all the kids that came to our door. It is a blast … Read more
This Homemade Ghost Buster Costume was my daughter Christy’s idea. We used a large cardboard box and painted it red. Used another piece of the box to cut out the face. After cutting out the face we smeared glue on top of the box and placed the fabric over it to make the white ghost … Read more
For Character day at my daughter’s school, she decided she wanted to be Pippi Longstocking. 1. First we went to Salvation Army and bought a denim jumper dress ($3) and a red and white striped shirt ($2) 2. Second I cut old t-shirts and sew them onto the jumper for patches. I hand sewed them … Read more
I started this adult Pippi Longstocking costume by buying the blue dress at a local thrift store. I then bought a colourful striped top to go underneath (ideally I would have liked a red top but I couldn’t find one with the right fit for the costume I was trying to create). I cut the … Read more