Halloween Sewing 2024 - Beetlejuice yes, Wicked no?

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You can highlight the link and right click for the dialog box, and choose that.

Oh yes, it's time to go there.

Musical Comedy Beetlejuice Lydia Dietz is back again this year.

McCalls always had the Halloween market, but now the One Company to Rule Them All (McVoguerickity)

has snazzed up the website a tad for this year. Certainly made them easier to find, and more PDF for emergency costumes and more sizes.

https://simplicity.com/halloween-patterns

The website has lots of 'here's the pattern to make the look' ideas this year

And a lot of Beetlejuice, both movie and musical.

It's really a nematode, but it really wants to be a scary netherworld snake

Categories!

https://simplicity.com/featured-shops/regency-patterns/

I am loving how older patterns get pulled back in to create 'new' looks, but I'm not going to go back over the records to see if one of these is that damned regency dress pattern that gave me serious 'why don't these pieces match up?' problems.

The lads have more coats to choose from. This has been around for awhile and it still gives me Willy Wonka vibes

Sadly, this pattern only comes in adult sizes

WitchiPoo lives

There really isn't a pattern that apes anything in the Wicked costumes. The trad Glinda is not Galinda (but this WOZ crown is really more of an attempt to be screen accurate than her dress), and how many months has that trailer been playing for the movie with the AMAZING costumes?

Maybe next year?

In the meantime, some serious Judy Jetson vibes. With bootcovers.

While I was poking around under general costumes I saw this one.

https://simplicity.com/simplicity/s9834

The Vogue vintage hat pattern that was missing directions is now a Simplicity title.  They are all one company now, so it's no surprise but now I gotta get a copy to see if the instructions have been redone.

As for me, I'm going with my red jumpsuit with the Gizmonics applique and am working on a yellow hardhat made from cheap plastic hardhats (two, to make it slightly larger) to wear to work.

Mostly what I am doing is hemming

Measure polyester knit item for hem. Pin. Sew. Iron on a steamy setting and slap that board on it to set.

Repeat.

Redrafter - just can't leave that pattern alone

Man, that sleeve sticks out more than I like. This is a camp shirt, but it doesn't need wings for sleeves.

 

I can bring it in a little at the seams but it won't hang as well. I will have to leave this be and remedy the pattern for the next use.

My goal is to take the surplus width from the hem but keep the cap fat; it would take a little FBA (full bicep adjustment) thinking.

Essentially I slice it open to the seam line and wiggle it around until it's the right dimensions and doesn't look distorted.

This would be fine but the right side seam is an inch lower than the other.

This is better (yardstick to check the level)

The great thing about the cardboard grid board is I can push pin stuff to line it up or swing it from and it maintains that distance or level. Pretty handy for this work; and I use a tape measure to check the measurements cause that board isn't numerically accurate (the folds eat up space).

I used a wide angle shot to get it all, so it's distorted in the photo.

Of course we're past short sleeved button up season now, but it's ready for next time.