'Halloween Costume Contest' Contest

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Butterfly Queen

imcier, member | November 4th, 20092 comments

Top (cotton twill) corset inspired, is covered with small butterflies (raw silk) that were airbrushed and machine embroidered . Skirt is four huge butterfly wings with embroidered veins (raw silk...

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Office halloween witch

a_loomis, member | November 4th, 2009

This is me in the Office Halloween. My cubemates and I were witches - I made my jacket from $2 yard remnants and a piece of tapestry I had in the stash. It is a modified pirate jacket...

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Upload pictures of your costumes for a chance to win

_nikki_, contributor | November 4th, 2009

Now that Halloween has come and gone, upload photos of your completed costumes to enter The Halloween Costume Contest

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Green Girl of Leaping Land

jestersmother, member | November 4th, 20091 comment

Green Girl from Leaping land wears a vest constructed from indivually hand cut and painted leaves attached along the veins. Head piece is constructed with silk floral and mask is purchased.

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Laura's Lion King Nala costume

marpolanco, member | November 4th, 2009

My daughter Laura dressed up as Nala, from "The Lion King" movie, for her senior talent show during Halloween week. I made this dance costume out of stretch rayon velvet, some acrylic fur for the...

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Joker the Dark Knight

ggirl44, member | November 4th, 20091 comment

My 10 yr old grandson wanted to be the Joker Dark Knight. He thinks grandma can make anything and I love him for that, so I try. So I went to my stash and started sewing. I made...

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Glinda the Good Witch

WickedStepmother, member | November 4th, 20092 comments

My embroidery machine came in handy on this Glinda the Good for my youngest daughter. We started with a child's formal pattern to get the pointed waistline on the skirt, but then expanded the width...

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Miss Marilyn Monroe

WickedStepmother, member | November 4th, 2009

I used some white poly satin in my "stash" to make the Marilyn Monroe costume. I based it on Butterick Retro B5209, but decided to put a pleated 3 width skirt on it, as well as raise the backline and...

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Bride of Frankenstein

WickedStepmother, member | November 4th, 2009

When my 12 year old decided she wanted to be the Bride of Frankenstein for Halloween I thought YES and easy costume! It turned out to be deceptively hard to get the correct look. After looking up...

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The cast of 2007's Surf's Up - Cody Maverick, Big Z, and Chicken Joe

chrisdenf, member | November 4th, 20091 comment

I had to make everything by hand. My materials were fleece, felt, craft foam (masks, wings, tails, and and tattoo like marking appliques on character's chests), two boas (black for big z hair, yellow...

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Captain Hook

josiane, member | November 3rd, 2009

Here is my Captain Hook costume from the Peter Pan gang! This was certainly the one that took the longest to make, but it was a welcomed challenge!

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Dumb and Dumber

happyfarmrgrl, member | November 3rd, 2009

My daughter and her girlfriend came up with the idea to dress up as female versions of Lloyd and Harry from the movie "Dumb and Dumber."

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The cast of Peter Pan!

josiane, member | November 3rd, 2009

Welcome to Neverland! I made all the costumes, Tinkerbell, Wendy, Peter Pan, Tiger Lily, Smee (except the stripped t-shirt and the tuque) and Captain Hook! All costumes were based on patters...

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Peter Pan

josiane, member | November 3rd, 2009

Here is the Peter Pan costume I made for my cousin this year. I based it on a Butterick pattern for a shirt and made some modifications to it!

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Tinkerbell

josiane, member | November 3rd, 2009

This is my Tinkerbell costume, I was planning it since last year. I made the dress based on a Simplicity pattern, then chopped up the bottom for my costume! I made little shorts with tulle to wear...

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June & Beaver "Cleaver"

Queensewalot, member | November 3rd, 20092 comments

This halloween "wiggle" dress was made using the vintage 1950's Butterick pattern #8060 and some great black & orange batik pumpkin fabric. Orange & Black organza apron...

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I Love Lucy

Laura_Mae, member | November 3rd, 2009

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 For Halloween this year, I decided to go as Mrs. Lucy Ricardo, and my trusty side-kick, Valentino, went as Ricky Ricardo he...

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King & Queen of Hearts

judsey60, member | November 3rd, 2009

This is the King & Queen of Hearts. I saw this in a magazine and wanted to make it. In my stash was all the materials I needed except for some gold trim. It was a fun, creative...

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Mrs. Reaper goes to Ascot

AlisaG, member | November 3rd, 20093 comments

I’ve always loved the ascot outfits from My Fair Lady and I’ve always wanted to see how large of a hat I could create and wear. I went pretty quickly to the idea of flowers and...

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The Bird Riders

AlisaG, member | November 3rd, 20093 comments

My sister & I had wanted to do riding animal costumes over the years after seeing the knight in the movie Labyrinth. We saw a Chocobo (bird that is ridden like a horse) in the video game...

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Diesel10

SewSmoothSophie, member | November 3rd, 20093 comments

4 year old George told his mother he really wanted to be Diesel 10 for halloween....There are no purchasable Diesel 10 costumes on the market of course! I told her I could probably figure it out. I...

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Rasta Lion

SewSmoothSophie, member | November 3rd, 2009

Aaron L. had an idea to be a "Rasta Lion"- He needed something fuzzy and fun to dance it. The Dreadlocks are made from Wool Roving and were dreaded by hand, the stomach covers up a zipper with snaps...

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MAD Hatter

dezigner19, member | November 3rd, 2009

I made this Mad hatter costume for a friend of mine, Brian Brady(in the pictures). I made the entire costume from my own pattern I made. I made the long, coat out of cordoroy. The cuffs are...

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Halloween Costume Contest

HollyDean, member | November 3rd, 20091 comment

This is my grandson, who asked to be a tree since his little sister was going to be a flower. We found the directions for this tree on the Web; it was a Better Homes and Garden project.

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