{"id":1693,"date":"2023-01-03T16:24:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T00:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2023-01-03T16:24:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T00:24:32","slug":"halloween-costume-pattern-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/halloween-costume-pattern-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Costume Pattern Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you know me, you know I\u2019m not a big fan of making outfits that will just get one use. Like Easter and Christmas outfits\u2026 and like Halloween. This fights with my love of creating Halloween costumes. So when I create the costumes, I try really hard to make sure that as much of the costume can be reused as is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So even though\u00a0The Ramblin\u2019 Raglan Mega Pattern Pack<\/a>\u00a0has only been published for about a year, I\u2019ve been using it for\u2026 well, 3 or 4 years to create Halloween costumes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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There\u2019s a lot of thought that goes into which version of the pattern that I use for the costumes. Here\u2019s what I\u2019m thinking:
1. With these colors, she\u2019s probably not going to wear them as clothes, so it\u2019s best if they\u2019re made into pajamas.
2. She won\u2019t wear long sleeve pajamas, so they need to be the short sleeve version.
3. It\u2019s Oregon, so there does need to be long sleeves\u2026 so a t-shirt underneath works for keeping warm.
Because of these ideas, I\u2019ve made the ruffly short sleeve version for the past 3 years.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Here\u2019s what I did to make each outfit a little bit individual:

I actually forgot how much I love this costume!! My sweet little witch!!
She\u2019s wearing a purple RTW (Ready to Wear) long sleeve t-shirt under the Raglan nightie. The nightie itself, I made a bit wider at the bottom, to make it fuller over the little pettiskirt. It\u2019s sewn from a black cotton with sparkles on it. You can kind of see the sparkles on the skirt here. The skirt, hat, tights and t-shirt were store-bought. Over it all, she\u2019s wearing a little tabbed corselet.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The corselet is super easy. You can make it by measuring around the chest and around the waist, then make a trapezoid pattern piece, adding 1 inch for seam allowance. Sew tabs into the bottom. Put grommets or eyelets on both back edges and lace up with a matching ribbon.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This year, she wanted to be a vampire. I wanted to go all adorable creepy sweet like\u00a0Claudia from Interview with the Vampire<\/a>. Little Miss, on the other hand, wanted to be scary. So we split the difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We used the nightie pattern again with a solid black cotton fabric. Store bought black tights and long sleeve t-shirt are worn underneath. Over the top is two layered tulle skirts. I actually made a bunch of them- if they look too big in this picture, it\u2019s because they are. I made them to last for a bunch of years.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This is last year\u2019s costume. As you can see Mr.Man was a sweet adorable little owl. I love his sweet little face!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Halloween lack of creativity is starting to show here- store bought leggings and long sleeve t-shirt under the raglan. The raglan this time is still nightie length- but hey! It\u2019s purple this time! Wings and those same tulle skirts worn over the nightie. I made a little corselet again, this time without tabs, just sparkly black fabric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn\u2019t notice it at the time- but the sneakers paired with the tulle skirts is making me so happy. She\u2019s like a little punk fairy. I love it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this year, I\u2019m planning on blue tulle skirts over a blue raglan with a corselet\u2026 that sounds familiar. Maybe I should put some more thought into it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what patterns are you hacking to create something original for Halloween?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you know me, you know I\u2019m not a big fan of making outfits that will just get one use. Like Easter and Christmas outfits\u2026 and like Halloween. This fights with my love of creating Halloween costumes. So when I create the costumes, I try really hard to make sure that as much of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-motm-pattern-extras","9":"post-with-thumbnail","10":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}