Clotheslined

Our Halloween is all but over now, since the parties we typically go to both happened last night, so I thought I’d go ahead and show you my costume.

I was a clothesline! It was a lot less elaborate than last year and three years ago. I sewed, but a total of no more than 90 minutes. On me you can see a tank top, towel, and pair of socks (though they would not even fit baby feet; they just look sock-shaped). There’s also a bird clipped into my hair. I made everything from scratch, freehand, though I did use rulers and aim for symmetry. There were two pieces that didn’t make it onto the line in the moment:

The skirt is out of leftover fabric from the slip of my paper doll costume and the tank top is tie dye left from my bird shirt remodel; the rest is stash fabric that hasn’t been seen here.

The pictures above also hold a lesson in freehanding: Yes, a pants piece is basically a tapered rectangle with a half a U cut out, curve of the U at the crotch. BUT the half-U has to have its top at the waist. If you cut it with the top of the U at the cuff you get some seriously bandy-legged pants!

Matt’s costume was hard for people to guess. Imagine him making a goofy face and telling you jokes. (I like to say, he went as himself.)