Team Zissou Halloween 2015

Did a team Zissou costume this year complete with the jaguar shark for my 2-year old. Made her truck or treat bag out of a clearance canvas bag. Ordered track suits on Amazon and used duct tape for the stripes, was able to find team Zissou patches on eBay. 

Didn't spring for the adidas, ended up just throwing yellow shoelaces into my existing sneakers

Dyed a shark costume brown with icily dye and used glow in the dark fabric paint for the spots, went back after it dried to do black outline for 'jaguar' spots with black acrylic paint.

Mostly just impressed my almost-two year old kept it on for three blocks of trick-or-treating. 

Happy Halloween!!!!

Halloween Headstones

I decided to make my own graveyard this year. I've always enjoyed clever Halloween tombstones, I just didn't realize that you can't find them in store.

I ended up resorting to 1 1/2" foam insulation, I printed out my epitaphs and traced then into the board using an exacto knife, then carved out the letters with my speedball linoleum cutter.

I almost ended up investing in a Dremel drill, but once I got the first one carved out I seemed to speed through the rest. I didn't go overly aged, decided to just go with a couple of coats of grey, figure I can always do more next year, planning on adding to the set.

I had bought thin metal stakes to stand them up, but they didn't do the trick. 

Ended up using caulk and gorrila glue tape to secure pvc piping to the back of the tombstones and sliding into rebar staked in the yard.

It came out nice, feel ready to embrace the Halloween season, hopefully these will last a while.

 My favorite is the zombie tombstone. Think I'll add some details to the others next year, or whenever I make more.

 

Halloween 2014

Halloween 2014 Peg + Cat

This is a DIY costume. 

Not wanting to sew everything from scratch I started with a cat costume from eBay and some iPoly dye 

Instead of using the iPoly dye on the stove as directed I boiled a pasta pot full of water and used that to fill one of my husbands 5 gallon work buckets (outside), I covered it with a piece of cardboard to keep the temperature up and went out to stir occasionally. 

For the yarn wig I bought two variations of yellow, I made a large circle with the yarn, that when halved was about the length of my fart and went down alternating coloring making slipknots to create a wig, I made it a little long so that I could trim it to my desired length. 

The pants I made by bleaching some old leggings and them placing elastic bands down the length of each leg prior to dying my desired color. 

I sewed this jacket, but I would highly recommend just trying to find one you can dye. 

Space Geek Quilt

One of my friends is coming out to visit in August and I decided to make something to give her when she comes. She's been taking about finishing a full sleeve with a geek ship theme. Was able to find 3 of them at Jo-Ann and whipped this up in a day. 

  

Made my own pattern in this one. I think I might rip the edging this week and make it a little bit wider, I have a few weeks and a deadline on this one

Here's a shot of what I did today

Jelly Roll Race Quilt Remix

Spent too much time on Pinterest over the weekend and decided to make a quilt. I had attempted a jelly roll quilt a while back that came out far too narrow. I found this pattern http://www.modabakeshop.com/2014/07/jelly-roll-race-remix-quilt.html

It uses two jelly roll quilt and I decided to use it as a guideline for mine. Wasn't able to find a lot of options out there for remixes on jelly rolls. 

This is what I ended up with.

It measures 32x28 perfect for my almost 2 year old.

I had bought some fat quarters in the fabric a while back (I actually made a 2T dress that's awaiting buttons with this line). I ended up cutting 8 8 1/2 x 7 1/2 squares, and 32 4 x4  1/2 squares to piece together for the back. 

Day 2- 

Added a border and assembled with batting. Also used some of the leftovers to make a matching pillowcase.

Day 3: pulled the white border off the front and replaced it with gray today, also started a new quilt. 

Making a geek theme quilt, came who with my own pattern. 

Ended up splitting the quilt front/back to make two separate quilts.  Finished the first one last night

Used some star minky for the back, didn't line it so it's nice and light for the summer.