I threw an 80’s themed party for mine and my husbands 30th, and after watching many 80’s cartoons for idea’s, my daughter decided that she would like to be strawberry shortcake. As I am not a sewing expert, I found a perfect dress on eBay that gave the impression that it was a red dress … Read more
For Halloween this year our family decided on SpongeBob as our theme. I was elected to be Patrick. It was a bit of challenge, since we didn’t have a pattern to base the homemade Patrick Star Halloween costume on, so I had to come up with a lot of paper patterns for the costume first. … Read more
This year, I wanted to dress up like a Disney princess since I was planning to go to Disneyland’s Mickey’s Halloween Party. I was looking through my closet and I found a dress from 8th grade (I’m now a senior in college) that I haven’t touched since then. The shade was PERFECT for a Sleeping … Read more
I was initially inspired by costumes on this website. I have always wanted a Wonder Woman Halloween costume, but never found the right commercially available costume. As others have commented, this one took a long time! But it was worth it. I made the bustier and bottoms from a spandex blend, hand beaded gold PVC … Read more
This is Daisy, she’s a big fan of Wonder Woman and she asked me to make her a Homemade Wonder Woman Halloween Costume for Halloween. I haven’t been sewing long, but i figured I’d give it a try. I think she looks great and it turned out well for my first attempt at sewing without … Read more
This Homemade Thundercats Group Costume is a group effort all homemade by hand depicting us as the cartoon characters The Thundercats. I am shown here as Cheetara, the body suit is a swimming costume but the skirt and additions are all handmade. I helped make the Panthro muscle suit which was padded out with wadding. … Read more
I wanted to do some sort of costume that had hair made of craft foam. Judy Neutron, Jimmy’s Mom is perfect since her hair and the look of her clothes are so distinctive. For the “hair” I used two yards of 1/2” green craft foam. To get the shape right I started by making a … Read more
I love Halloween and always try to come up with funny/original ideas that I just can’t get in costume stories. This year I came up with the silver surfer because it would be truly daring if I actually pulled it. The year before I did Destro from G.I. Joe and really liked how the silver … Read more
My son came to me and wanted a Aang Avatar The Last Airbender (cartoon version) Halloween costume. I downloaded a photograph of Aang holding his flying staff from the Internet. I bought wood, brown spray paint, liquid nails, and 3/4″ small wood nails at Home Depot for the flying staff. I made the top wood … Read more
I had to make a Totoro costume for a school play and it needed to be big. I used about 25 pool noodles, attached them together to form circles of different sizes and then threaded wire between the different layers making sure to leave some space for arm holes. Next using hot glue, I draped … Read more
This year, I decided to create a Daisy Duck Costume for Halloween! Materials Used for the Daisy Duck Costume The Hat: I started with a plain white hat that I found online for less than 5 dollars. First I painted the bill as well as a little lump for the nose and sides of the … Read more
I used little figurines as my models to make Cogsworth and Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast Costumes. The main trick is to use fabric fusing to iron on the main fabric to a sheet of foam which is what helps hold the shapes of the costumes. There is basic sewing but I also Velcro … Read more