Its Halloween time already! How did that happen?!
Two years ago we had Lego Friends.
Last year we had the Lego Movie and Batgirl.
This year we have one Star Wars character and another DC Comics superhero.
First up is Princess Leia for my 10.5 year old.
We used a few ideas from Pinterest and made up the rest.
I used white fleece for both warmth and ease of sewing.
Here you can see the basic shape of the tunic.
I laid the fleece on the floor (with a fold along where the shoulders/arms go), had Leah lay on top of it, pinned a rough outline and then we tweaked it from there. A hole for her head, a collar for that neck hole, a long hood, and a wide sleeve. I was able to cut the hood and collar from the fabric that had been cut away from the underarm area. I bought 3 yards of fleece and used just about every scrap.
The belt is made from some shiny silver dancewear fabric I found at Hobby Lobby with sturdy fabric and batting on the inside for structure. Leah designed the shape of the belt and the stitching, including a request for the 'L'. Apparently it stands for Leia on Halloween and Leah on all other days. :) It closes with velcro in the back.
The buns are yarn on an earmuff frame. I bought a cheap pair of earmuffs and cut off the store bought covering, leaving just the plastic frame. Then I cut a piece of craft felt roughly larger than the earpiece to use as a base, braided some long lengths of super bulky brown yarn and hot-glued the braids to the felt base. Using another piece of craft felt I made a sandwich of felt, plastic earmuff piece, and then braid-covered felt and hand stitched around the sandwich to hold it all in place. The buns were a bit flat so I ended up hot gluing another braid on top to make them puffier. Another strand of yarn was wrapped and hot glued around the headband part of the frame - it looked too goofy with the white plastic part showing. Although, really, its all relative... some might say yarn-buns-on-earmuffs are goofy enough to begin with! Leah likes them so that's all that really matters.
The entire costume (tunic, belt, earmuff buns) cost about $30 in supplies. (We had the wooden blaster pistol already from a previous wood shop experiment and she already owns black boots.) It was 3 yards of fleece, the silver fabric (1/2 yard?), earmuffs, and yarn. Considering you can pay $30 for a costume in the store made from cheap scratchy plastic that'll fall apart in one day, I'd say that's not too bad! Leah is already looking forward to wearing the tunic as a bathrobe after Halloween because its just one big body wrap of snuggly-ness. :)
This weekend, though, it'll be all about Princess Leia saving the republic.
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