Haloween 2011 go!

 So Halloween is coming around again this year and with a limited amount of time and money I've decided to be Katara from Avatar since I already made the outfit.
Since I was a different size all I really have to do is make a new white belt which I've done then I need to sew a few edges around the top to make it look a bit more finished. The main work I will do is to make an outfit for my boyfriend. He is going to be the Boulder, also from Avatar.

This costume seems a bit doable. So far we've bought about 2 yards of fabric for the pants and the armbands and half a yard for the “loin” cloth portion. Found both fabrics at Walmart for $1.50 per yard.

What I plan to do is make the pants like I would make my kung fu pants but just cutting off at the knee so there is no need for extra fabric for the bend in the knee.

I plan to use snaps to keep everything together, the bands on the pants , the leg and arm wraps and the belt.

For the belt I plan to get the stiffest interfacing and sewing the fabric onto it then using hot glue to put ribbon on the border as well as attach the gold dots. And sew the green fabric gathered, then sew the brown fabric slightly gathered to it then sew that to the prepared “belt”. I'm hoping this project will take at most 4 hours since

Glue gun fun

After making the first hat, I became addicted and made two more so far. Trying a few different ways to attach the black fabric to them. The next time I see bolts of fabric for sale at walmart I must buy at least two bolts of black fabric since I know I will use this one up.I am not sure why I originally bought my tiny glue gun from walmart. It was no more than $5 and the sticks cost about $3 for a pack of 30.

To decorate the first hat I decided on using the white ribbon that I had lying around from when I altered the dress shirt. The spool of ribbon cost about $1 at walmart. I took a small strip and hot glued it around the base of the midsection of the hat. Next I took some thread and gathered one end of the ribbon to make a tiny rosette attaching that with hot glue as well.


At the same time I bought the white ribbon I bought several spools of the black ribbon which was about $3 per spool. This is the same ribbon I used to put ruffles on the umbrella.
After sewing the ribbon on the sewing machine to gather it a bit I folded it over so the underside was longer than the up side and sewed it to the base of the second hat. I then went back and used hot glue to secure it to the edge.

Next I found a nifty tutorial to make ribbon roses here. I took the black ribbon and cut it in half length wise and only cut off about 15in of material to make two tiny rosettes. Then I used about 20in of ribbon the full width to make a third larger rosette. I used the hot glue gun to attach all of them to the second hat.

I glued strips of fabric across the bottoms of each of the hats in an effort to have someplace to clip on to the hat when attaching it to my hair. I then found some pink ribbon in my apartment and decided the best way to store them, for now, would be to string them all on the ribbon.