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Oct 2019
6:21pm, 26 Oct 2019
9,022 posts
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Mandymoo
That is just brilliant
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Oct 2019
7:11pm, 26 Oct 2019
10,491 posts
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NDWDave
I saw this at the Jersey museum today
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Oct 2019
7:34pm, 26 Oct 2019
6,556 posts
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Helegant
I love the Halloween outfits 
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Oct 2019
10:38am, 27 Oct 2019
6,155 posts
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sallykate
Brilliant WL!
I once made daughter an Elsa (Frozen) costume because I couldn’t bear the idea of buying polyester crap of dubious provenance. The pattern was from Etsy (hat, cloak, skirt, blouse, bodice) and I bought material locally. She only wore it once but I still felt like it was worth it!
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Oct 2019
10:39am, 27 Oct 2019
6,156 posts
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sallykate
Or was it Anna? The one with brown hair, anyway.
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Oct 2019
10:58am, 27 Oct 2019
20,571 posts
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Meglet
That’s Anna. I think you posted pic of that, it looked great.
When I was a kid mass-produced fancy dress didn’t exist (or was much harder and costly to come by) so you had to make your own from what you had!
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Oct 2019
11:11pm, 30 Oct 2019
6,557 posts
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Helegant
Ive just blogged my 'headless horse rider costume. I may never work with chiffon again!
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Oct 2019
7:50am, 31 Oct 2019
25,894 posts
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HellsBells
It looks fab
Chiffon is horrible - I'm struggling through a shirt for daughter in the stuff and the only way ?I can handle it is to use enough spray starch to render it stiff
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Oct 2019
8:11am, 31 Oct 2019
20,574 posts
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Meglet
Fab costume. Lots of pins for chiffon, or tack it before machining.
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Oct 2019
10:01am, 31 Oct 2019
6,558 posts
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Helegant
If i had followed the way I was taught it would have been cut out with tissue paper, pinned (with fine pins), tacked, machined with a small stitch and then all edges hand rolled and with care. All at a proper table with decent light.
In the event I sat at a tv table in the kitchen, hacked the design, rolled and stitched zigzag over the roll as I went with the wrong machine, etc etc, not a pin or a tack or sight. All the 'ripped' edges are raw. My only concession to quality is that the shoulder seam is a french seam.
I'm hoping she'll remember the fun long after the quality is forgotten.
I bought a special liquid some years ago that is supposed to stop frayed edges, but it made them quite hard, rather like PVA glue, so I didn't use it again.
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