Halloween A Little Early

As you probably know, owls are on my mind a lot these days.  :)  Well, a few weeks back we received the Pottery Barn Kids catalog in the mail and a few pages in I saw this:




What?  An OWL costume?  How cute is that.... wait, it's $50?  


For a toddler's costume?  No way.  I can TOTALLY do that 


myself.  SO I did!!!!  And it turned out pretty cute.... 


what do you think?

To make it I used three different colors of fleece that I bought 


at JoAnne's - tan, dark brown and ivory.I lined all the pieces 


with a pink calico cotton fabric which is what you can see 


under the cape and I attached some ribbon to the cape so that 


it ties under her chin.  I did use a pattern for the cape but 


the hood portion of the pattern was wacked so I ended up tracing 


the shape of a hood from a sweatshirt of R's and adapting it to 


work for this costume... so two tries to get the hood right and 


I'm not totally thrilled with it.  You can totally see the center 


seam on the inside of the hood so I think I might 're-line' it 


with more of the floral fabric and maybe put some polyfill in 


there too.  


I adapted a pattern I had for a pillowcase dress to make the 


owl's body... the difference is that it's lined with the pink 


floral fabric and I stuffed it with polyfill to give it a cuddly 


shape.  It's a bit big - you can't see that I used a chip bag 


clip to make it smaller in the back so I might need to perform 


some alterations on it as well before the holiday.  


Not bad for not really having a pattern though, right?  


Maybe I am getting better at this whole 'sewing' thing!  




Whoot Whoot!