Costume snafu...
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senoritafishI'm disappointed.
My oldest son had wanted to be Sesshoumaru for Halloween. I was a bit excited since he's a favorite character of mine, too. Probably not anything elaborate (not the the nearly professional ones you see at cons), because I haven't actually sewn anything for about thirteen years; the last time was when I made my own wedding clothes (I got married at the Ren Faire). I've never liked sewing clothes, although I don't mind crafts like stuffed animals and such - costumes seem to fall more in that category.
Anyway, after much searching of pattern books, finding a child's kimono pattern and figuring out how to alter it and how much of each color fabric to buy, trying to remember how to cut out a pattern, and tracing a crapload of stupid little red & white hexagons on fabric that shifted so much none of them are quite the same shape, I was ready to take all the pieces over to my mother-in-law's to try to put everything together. My mother's old sewing machines (both of them) bit the dust last Halloween, and whenever I remembered they needed servicing, there was no money left.
Well, after much futzing around with her machine (damn, every machine has a different bobbin apparatus), I finally got it set up and ready to go. I thought. However, when stepping on the pedal, it would sew about an inch before the bobbin thread tangled underneath the fabric and the needle jammed. After fiddling with it for half an hour, neither of us could get it to work properly, and MIL came to the conclusion that it needs to be serviced. I don't know anyone else with a sewing machine and no money until Halloween day to try to repair mine or possible buy a new one (I know I saw a couple at Target for about $80).
Oh well. I'm making it big enough that he can wear it to Anime Expo next year, and maybe it can be next year's Halloween costume too. Grandma had some pirate stuff, so maybe we'll make do with that; he didn't seem averse to the idea and even wore the pirate hat home. And anyway the white wig we bought looks like hell now. He wore it to school Friday for "Crazy Hair Day"; I tried brushing it a little to make it look neater and wound up with a brush full of fake hair. Although I realize nothing is going to look the way it does in the show, it's pretty pitiful. Hopefully we can find something better before then. Sesshomaru would slice and dice anyone trying to look like him with that awful rug.
In the meantime, Angus has fallen in love the "fluffy" - the piece of material intended for Sesshoumaru's moko-mokosama (as I've heard other fans describe it). He wrapped around himself and fell asleep with it the other day....
It sort of looks like he was thrown there to land in a heap. I assure you, he wasn't. My husband pointed him out after realizing he was out like a light, after first wrapping himself up tightly - pretty typical for him. We can't keep top sheet on his bed because he's roll himself up like a coccoon, with his legs sticking out. I understand finding pressure on the body comforting is typical of aspies/autistics - some places actually sell weighted blankets for that purpose.
Kids sleep in the darnedest positions. Just looking at his right leg makes my middle-aged knee hurt, and he's got his head on the arm of the sofa, between the back of it and the wall.
Gareth and Avalon's costumes are in the works and making progress: Gareth is an astronaut and Avalon wants to be a chicken. A brown, alien vampire chicken.
My oldest son had wanted to be Sesshoumaru for Halloween. I was a bit excited since he's a favorite character of mine, too. Probably not anything elaborate (not the the nearly professional ones you see at cons), because I haven't actually sewn anything for about thirteen years; the last time was when I made my own wedding clothes (I got married at the Ren Faire). I've never liked sewing clothes, although I don't mind crafts like stuffed animals and such - costumes seem to fall more in that category.
Anyway, after much searching of pattern books, finding a child's kimono pattern and figuring out how to alter it and how much of each color fabric to buy, trying to remember how to cut out a pattern, and tracing a crapload of stupid little red & white hexagons on fabric that shifted so much none of them are quite the same shape, I was ready to take all the pieces over to my mother-in-law's to try to put everything together. My mother's old sewing machines (both of them) bit the dust last Halloween, and whenever I remembered they needed servicing, there was no money left.
Well, after much futzing around with her machine (damn, every machine has a different bobbin apparatus), I finally got it set up and ready to go. I thought. However, when stepping on the pedal, it would sew about an inch before the bobbin thread tangled underneath the fabric and the needle jammed. After fiddling with it for half an hour, neither of us could get it to work properly, and MIL came to the conclusion that it needs to be serviced. I don't know anyone else with a sewing machine and no money until Halloween day to try to repair mine or possible buy a new one (I know I saw a couple at Target for about $80).
Oh well. I'm making it big enough that he can wear it to Anime Expo next year, and maybe it can be next year's Halloween costume too. Grandma had some pirate stuff, so maybe we'll make do with that; he didn't seem averse to the idea and even wore the pirate hat home. And anyway the white wig we bought looks like hell now. He wore it to school Friday for "Crazy Hair Day"; I tried brushing it a little to make it look neater and wound up with a brush full of fake hair. Although I realize nothing is going to look the way it does in the show, it's pretty pitiful. Hopefully we can find something better before then. Sesshomaru would slice and dice anyone trying to look like him with that awful rug.
In the meantime, Angus has fallen in love the "fluffy" - the piece of material intended for Sesshoumaru's moko-mokosama (as I've heard other fans describe it). He wrapped around himself and fell asleep with it the other day....
It sort of looks like he was thrown there to land in a heap. I assure you, he wasn't. My husband pointed him out after realizing he was out like a light, after first wrapping himself up tightly - pretty typical for him. We can't keep top sheet on his bed because he's roll himself up like a coccoon, with his legs sticking out. I understand finding pressure on the body comforting is typical of aspies/autistics - some places actually sell weighted blankets for that purpose.
Kids sleep in the darnedest positions. Just looking at his right leg makes my middle-aged knee hurt, and he's got his head on the arm of the sofa, between the back of it and the wall.
Gareth and Avalon's costumes are in the works and making progress: Gareth is an astronaut and Avalon wants to be a chicken. A brown, alien vampire chicken.
