Costuming #1

For possibly the first time in my life, I started planning our Halloween weeks in advance and finished the costumes over a week before Halloween.  Our costumes are almost always put together in the 11th hour and we generally look like a ragtag bunch.  Not this year.  The hubby and I had a costume party to attend last weekend; this jump-started the preparations.  My sewing machine has moved downstairs for the month and our dining room is, um, slightly messy [it is becoming harder to convince my children to clean up their toys at the end of the day when mine are all over the floor, and the table, and the rest of the dining room furniture].

First up in the costume postings is my dear little Dorothy.  I actually fear that she is going to be my dear little grumpy Dorothy, as she was persuaded into this one by her brother, her grandma, and her mother {first choice: baby mermaid}.  I modified the lazy days skirt pattern by oliver + s for the jumper by adding a bib and straps.  Buttons and buttonholes were new to me (so that is what that funny little square is for on my sewing machine.)  So today, Dorothy.  Tomorrow one very SCARY lion...