Get aggressive for apparel account with these three ambrosial DIY Halloween apparel for girls, including a appealing unicorn, a adorned fox, and a candied bunny.
I adulation to create. Sewing, crafting, writing, photographing — I consistently charge to be authoritative something.
But this aftermost year I accept been so active with blogging projects and photographing weddings, I haven’t had any time to sew or knit. And I absence it so much.
My bed-making apparatus had been sitting untouched, accession dust and cat-and-mouse for the one time of year I HAVE to abeyance aggregate and sew like a mad woman — Halloween!
Yes, it is true, I LOVE the alibi to architecture apparel and sew for my babe and my nieces.
And this year did not disappoint. I had SO abundant fun authoritative the girls’ costumes.
The girls started planning their apparel in the summer. Olivia knew all year that she capital to be a unicorn. Sophia struggled for awhile afore chief to be a bunny. And Julia couldn’t adjudge for weeks, until assuredly allotment to be a “fancy” fox.
Suddenly, it was able-bodied into October and I accomplished I bigger get sewing. The girls came with me to the bolt abundance to accept their fabrics and advice me architecture their looks.
Then I started to cut, sew, and glue…
For Olivia’s unicorn costume, we begin this aces checkered tulle that was absolute for her tutu. (The girls all capital tutus or skirts in their costumes.)
The brim is a basal no-sew askance tutu. (I accept been acceptation to address a tutu tutorial for the aftermost year, I will amend anon with one.) I fabricated it best than I usually accomplish the girls’ tutus because Olivia capital a longer, added abounding look.
While I purchased leotards/bodysuits for the acme of Julia and Sophia’s costumes, Olivia begged me to sew her a top for her costume.
After bed-making her a adapted bodice, complete with boning, for her bogie dress aftermost year, I capital to go with article abundant simpler that did not crave assorted accessories and architecture challenges.
So Olivia and I absitively on a simple tube top architecture with straps. The ashamed amplitude clover bolt was attenuate and I didn’t appetite it to be see through, so I bankrupt it and sewed it up so the bendable comfortable bolt was on both the central and the alfresco of the top.
To accomplishment anniversary girl’s costume, I fabricated a headpiece and a faux fur capelet.
Instead of lining the capelets with glassy lining, I fabricated both abandon with the fur so they would be balmy on Halloween night. It formed altogether — the capelets were so comfortable and the girls were balmy warm.
I will column a added in abyss tutorial of all the apparel later, but briefly, for Olivia’s unicorn horn, I acclimated a white flannel bolt to accomplish a cone appearance and blimp it. I again covered it with that aces argent brownish bolt that I acclimated for her appendage and acclimated argent cilia to absolute about the horn to accomplish the indentations.
It angry out so able-bodied — I adulation it!
As I mentioned earlier, Julia could not adjudge what she capital to be for Halloween. (Olivia and Sophia had ample out their apparel in August, but Julia was stuck.)
She capital to be an beastly but she capital to be “pretty.”
So eventually we absitively on a fox. I promised her I would accomplish her attending appealing and fancy!
At the bolt store, Julia begin this orange shimmery organza and an orange glassy to bout which I acclimated to accomplish a lined balloon skirt.
To add added volume, I added little tucks in the organza forth the basal of the balloon hem. It formed perfectly.
I accomplished the waist off with with amber absolute award and acclimated an adaptable central the waistband so there was a bit of amplitude in the brim so it fit calmly and backward in place.
But because the bolt of the brim does not stretch, I bare to leave an aperture at the aback of the waist. With the aggregate of the organza, I didn’t bother to put in a zipper. I aloof sewed on a angle and eye cease on the aback of the waistband.
For the faux fur capelet, Julia begin this attractive fur with an orange burnish that angry out to be the exact blush of Julia’s hair!
And what about her ears?!? anticipate I adulation them about as abundant as I adulation her organza balloon skirt.
I fabricated all of the aerial in the average of the night afore this photo shoot. So because I was bisected asleep, hot gluing them calm at 5am, I am actual aflame they formed so well.
Her appendage we fabricated at the actual aftermost minute which pushed our shoot aback an hour or so.
Julia didn’t like the appendage I had fabricated for her. It was abundant beyond — but foxes accept huge tails!
Alas, she didn’t appetite to accept a ample appendage so I bound affective some of the bolt I had larboard over and aerated up a abate one. Phew.
I can’t accept how able-bodied it all angry out. Julia loves the accomplished apparel and she had so abundant fun clay it for me and cutting it for all our her Halloween events.
You can never go amiss with a bunny costume!
When we were growing up, our mom had sewed absurd apparel that all four of us kids wore at altered times in our lives. There was a witch, a antic and a bunny. That bunny apparel was a acceptable abounding costly bunny suit. I admiration what my mom anytime did with those costumes. They were fabulous.
As I mentioned, our girls capital to be in tutus for their costumes.
So a simple and candied bunny tutu apparel is what we made.
We bought a shimmery white conjugal tulle that is bendable and gorgeous.
And, like Olivia’s unicorn tutu and the abase tutus I fabricated the girls aftermost year, this is aloof a simple no-sew askance tutu.
We fabricated this one added abounding admitting – with anniversary bond of tulle fabricated of three strips of tulle that we cut to 8″x32″.
I fabricated the bunny aerial and the capelet out of the aforementioned faux fur as Olivia’s capelet for her unicorn costume.
It is bendable and comfortable costly bolt — that was not inexpensive. But I consistently buy the fur and fabrics for Halloween during a 50% off sale.
I sewed a continued tube to awning the chaplet and acclimated crafting wire to cast ear shapes to admit central the aerial I made.
The blush blush on the aerial is absolutely BLUSH that I activated with a architecture brush. I saw that address online about and it formed perfectly.
I had planned to accomplish a bunny appendage for Sophia’s apparel out of some white fur I bought for Julia’s appendage and ears. But I absolutely begin a pre-made pom pom at the bolt store, so I acclimated it instead.
And by the end of the accomplished project, I was alike added annoyed than this bunny of ours…
It was a mad clutter to the accomplishment line. As usual, in August and September, I was active aggravating to accomplishment up bells division and get bent up with my assignment for 5 Minutes for Mom, and I didn’t alpha authoritative the apparel aboriginal enough.
My mom jumped in to advice me and we got them all fabricated aural a anniversary or so. We did accept to break up all night on the aftermost night to get everything finished afore the photoshoot. But it was account all the assignment — we all adulation the apparel and had so abundant fun with them.
Now, I admiration what they are activity to be abutting year…
Written and photographed by Janice Croze, co-founder of 5 Minutes for Mom and Janice Croze Photography.
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