I really, really wanted to make a Halloween outfit for Larch as she is going to a ‘Halloween Babies Tea Party’.
After surfing the net a bit I saw lots of pictures of babies dressed as pumpkins who looked really cute and I thought that would be perfect. Except if you want to buy a whole costume your fine – patterns…mmm not. Finding the fabric was easy – the first charity shop I looked in had a large mens shirts the perfect colour.
The tricky part was a pumpkin pattern - you cant get a pattern anywhere! So I took Larch to my Mums and used her massive dining table to design and make templates for the pumpkin costume. I based it on a wedge of an orange shape but totally over estimated the size of the curve that I would need and the practice run was far too round. After a second attempt it was perfect. After discussing lots of ways to finish the costume with Mum (the sewing guru!), using ties or sewing it all the way round, how it would last another year or two etc I decided to go with making two halves that tie together over the shoulders and round under the arms.
If I can get my technological know-how up to scratch I may try uploading it to pdf format and selling it on my Esty shop. Leave me a comment if you think you would be interested in buying it.
It’s really inspired me to make more…a Christmas one, a gnome one….. the possibilities are endless!
Here are some pictures of it with its beautiful model!
