Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
We had so much fun making and wearing these costumes! We bought matching green sweat suits, sparkly and scaly green fabric for our shells, colored fabric for each of the turtles, green face...
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Vampire Lucy Westenra from Bram Stoker's Dracula
2 commentsNormal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Halloween is my holiday. Every year I rack my brain to think of something to trump previous year’s costumes. This year I...
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Last-minute Little Mermaid Costume
My little ones were sick, so I hadn't planned on them dressing up. Halloween morning, however, Chloe reminded me that she REALLLLLLLY wanted to be the Little Mermaid, even if we were just staying...
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Little shop of horrors
2 commentsMy daughter issy loves musical theatre. She wanted to be Audrey II, the man eating plant from Little Shop of Horrors. I wanted to make it textured and colorful. I used felt and foam to shape it and...
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Office halloween witch
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
Now that Halloween has come and gone, upload photos of your completed costumes to enter The Halloween Costume Contest
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Ghostbuster
1 commentI used Simplicity Pattern 3939, and modified the collar so it folded. This pattern was easy to sew and completely assembled on the serger. The patches and name tag were created using...
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Costume Contest Entry - Lady Gaga!
I sewed/glued/put together the entire top half. Borrowed the leggings, bought the wig.
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Silver man from the future.
This costume was worn to an early Halloween party just 5 hours ago by my friend! I made both the bodysuit and the tights/pants myself! (Note that the wig and the body paint/makeup were bought...
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Hip-Hop Halloween
My granddaughter, Shoshana, and my husband, Stan, following their interest in music, started watching musicals with 50's themes. Shoshana decided she just had to have a poodle skirt for Halloween...
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Devil with the Blue Dress On
My granddaughter, Shoshana, spends a lot of time with her grandpa. One of their favorite things to do is share music and that particular year (2007), Shoshana became enamored of the song, Devil With...
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Free Spirit
My granddaughter, Shoshana, decided she wanted to be a fairy for Halloween. However, having moved to Oregon where the weather is likely to be inclement, I felt she needed something to keep her warm...
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70's/80's gold disco.
This is a very disco style costume I designed myself to be worn for Halloween 2009. The costume consists of 2 separate pieces of garment, a single piece very shiny liquid gold lame' longsleeved...
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Voodoo Doll
1 commentI went to this Halloween event with my friend, who was a Voodoo Priest. The costume was handmade with no commercial pattern. I made the patchwork dress and armwarmers by creating my own...
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A.R.L.E.N
My 5 year old son decided he wanted to be a robot for Halloween. Instead of buying one I thought it would be a good opportunity to make the costume and spend some time together. He entered his...
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Halloween Costume Contest Official Rules
11 commentsThe official rules for the Threads Halloween Costume Contest.
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Halloween Costume Contest
Enter your handmade costumes into our Halloween Costume gallery by 11/8 and you could be one of five winners to take home a Threads prize pack.
Categories include:
Best Adult Costume
Best Children's Costume
Most Creative Costume
Best Use of Recycled Materials
Scariest Costume
See official rules for more details.




