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.

It's beginning to look a lot like Halloween: Tastes Like Chicken Edition

Now that it's one big Something Special company, you can find a hefty cross section of costumes, mostly Simplicity, in the costume book at Joann's. there are still costume patterns in the individual pattern 'company' books, but this does get the job done for the current crop.

I adore Halloween. I am glad it doesn't run all year long, but it comes close and the amount of creativity involved in it gives me life.

I also get the chance to play the "who's IP?" That is: you can use or restyle an existing costume pattern and present it as the thing you don't have a license for. Or you can be baldfaced about it (previous editions of this post have pointed those out).

It's not chicken, but it tastes like it.

She may have a dragon behind her, but she's the Queen of Fire, not the MOD. This would be a great MOB dress. I have no plans or needs but now I have ideas. 

Cersei might make more sense. Don't worry, my kids don't read this blog

This is a classic. Our men have always been bees. A bit more gendered of a statement but they were bees.

I have no idea what this is riffing on, but it feels specific. I do not watch the Disney channel right now but guessing princess.

Heathers the Musical? MeanGirls? They are both musicals.

Animals are always a solid costume. 

Donnie Darko vibes

There are more Lolitas, but this is the new one

Axoloti! Porcupine! How cozy can that sloth be? VERY

The lion, a previous cute baby costume staple has been replaced by Toddler Shark. Long live Toddler Shark (which is a costume that really makes sense for a toddler. They never sleep and must always keep moving)

Licensed. I love the Unnamed Doll love here. It gets cold the end of October, so this might be more dress up box.

More licensed. Now all I can see is how impractical this is going to be on a chilly October night.

I love the doggy dinosaurs but I understand the grandpup does not want to dress up as a purple pleather faux embossed crocodile dinosaur. Um yes, I still have the fabric. Such is life.

If my kids were teens I would know who this was. I spent some time on Google image search and it has let me down. so many anime with blue coats blue flame and wild hair. BTW Cation Designs did a really sweet Calcifer flame hand prop (from Howls Moving Castle) ; they are mostly on IG now but go look for it. Simple and cool.

Six is on tour. Get ready now. 

And this is not licensed.

For a movie about couture, this is appropriate.

You can make a regular item into a specific costume with the right fabric and makeup. Don't sleep on this approach; this pattern gives you the jacket, pants and the ruffled shirt. He's the most on tour!

Leave off the studs. Pretty sure the mask is foam.

Top hat pattern sold separately (it actually is)

Also on tour, Satine.

Officially licensed. I did not find the Sally fabric in the store but it's available online  https://www.joann.com/nightmare-before-christmas-knit-fabric-sally-patch/16713299.html

Off licence, but I like this one better

The obligatory Oz costumes, and I gotta say they nailed the Flying Monkey (I think this may be a first time for this character).  Go read their copy for this https://simplicity.com/mccalls/m8186 as well as 

https://simplicity.com/mccalls/pdm8127

Oh my god, the Winkie guard gets a costume! This IS a first. And I can't find my photos of the Winkie suit at MoPop, but I know I've posted about it.

When will Wicked get some quality knockoff costumes for the leads? The stage show is not the movie, and the Wicked movie is in production.

We'll always have the originals

There are many new costumes I just don't care about but you may.

https://simplicity.com/costumes/adults/

And now that it's McVogerickity, it's one stop shopping.

Big Tops, Knit tops for winter

At least I had a coupon for this splurge

I don't want to screw it up. I went to look for Miyake sweater examples and really didn't find much to tempt me

So I'm trying out things  The Style Arc Brooklyn uses some of that acrylic backed faux sweater knit, which is really heavy (heavier and stiffer than scuba to some extent) The Freya and the Winnie I have made before. The Iris (similar but larger collar than Freya) and the Jasper are in there to poke my brain.

Heaps of ideas all scrambled together

Remember the Bristol? So glad i tagged that post with the chicken tag

https://erniekdesigns.blogspot.com/2015/02/what-i-bought-at-sewexpo-today.html

I made one at one point and it was a dud, so dud it went straight to the recycle bin. I was so full of myself in 2015. I think everyone learns more from the duds, frankly.

And there was this with the Freya and the Winnie Style Arcs

https://erniekdesigns.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-couple-of-style-arc-knit-tops-that.html

In the meantime, I finally decided what to do with the sweatshirt dress

original Etsy image, more color accurate. 

It was a hot mess as sewn. The pockets were on the side seams; if I had stabilized them, they would have looked terrible. So I sat on this for a year. To avoid working on the stuff I needed to be working on, I sliced and reattached this.

I am liking it, better photo later.

And the horizontal seam made me think

The width at the midwaist does not work: I have altered that

I've done purposely ridged seams before, even it does feel sloppy.

It's a recycled knit pullover with a huge pieced cowl collar (photo shows serger seaming)

I have no problem cutting up sweatshirts to frankensew into new things. I'm just more cautious with new fabric (just realizing as I write this that there's another pullover I made this week that is so awful I didn't bother to take photos)

So I tried the Winnie in a sweatshirt terry 

not the real color

Not a twin needle but went around twice, as once just looked sad.

tacking down the collar on the side seams per the minimal instructions

It's okay. But now I know what I want to do with the Miyake knit. Three, four shirts later.