Happy Homemade Halloween

Growing up, my mom made our costumes every year. I remember being a snowflake, a dog, a pencil, and one half of a pair of dice. I remember my sister being a bear and a spider. All of our costumes were made at home, and they looked pretty dang good as I recall. Fast forward 20 years, and now I'm the mom, trying to make a costume for my daughter.

Her favorite movie these days is Monster's Inc (or "Monsuhs Nink" as she calls it). And with her black hair and blunt bangs --- she's the spitting image of the little girl, "Boo". I don't yet have a sewing machine of my own (nor do I remember how to use one) so I sewed it together by hand. I used 3 yards of light purple fleece, 1 yard of white fleece, 1 bag of quilt batting, 2 styrofoam balls, an old salad bowl, some pipe cleaner, foam paper, a needle and thread.

I even crocheted her a little "Mike Wazowski" toy. I used this Psychotic Tomato pattern, a ball of Cascade Yarns Pima Tencel and some random black and white yarn that I had in my stash.

For the arms I ch 25 stitches, sc’d 3 rows and on the last row, rejoined it to the foundation chain.

For the legs, I did the same process but with a foundation chain of 20 stitches.

All in all, I'm pretty happy with my first attempt at a home-made halloween. I think my mom would be proud. I just hope I can keep up the pace with next year's costume, whatever it may be.