The princess and the nerd

Always the one to wait until the last minute, we got Halloween costumes ready for school tomorrow. Sprite will go as a Barbie princess, thanks to a $5 at the dollar store. I will post pics of the three of them on Saturday.



The Divine Miss as the Purple Princess.

The challenge with DM's costume was that she is always sitting, either in a wheelchair or another chair. I needed something simple, that could be put on over her clothes and something that would be comfortable. Enter the princess apron. I found a piece of silky violet polyester in my stash that had a gold pattern and a border print on the selvages. I cute the piece in half, using part as a waistband.



I used my serger to hem all the raw edges, then sewed the two pieces so that they would layer one over the other to the waist band. I made a casing in the waist band, slipped a piece of one inch elastic through the casing and sewed the ends of the elastic down. I left about 4 inches of elastic on either end of the apron. I sewed hook and loop to the ends so that the skirt could be slipped around DM and fastened easily.

Next up was the cape. I had another piece of purple costume satin in my stash. I cut a circle from the piece, opened it up and cut another circle for the neckline. Again, used my serger to hem the raw edges. I used FOE to bind the neckline and left it a bit long and put a snap in to fasten it.

Finally, the crown is made from a crown that had broken. As the original crown would have fallen off her head, I used another bit of elastic to make it into a headband.



Coolboy decided he wanted to be a nerd... "like my Dad!". I think he makes a rather good one. He was so funny about it all and has told the whole school what he plans to be for Halloween. His dad offered the IBM cap, computer board tie, pens, pocket protector and glasses frames for the cause. Cool boy plans to buy a calculator at the school store to complete the outfit.



Happy Halloween!