For this Eve Costume I started by finding garland of some sort of leaves at my local Hobby Lobby. Then I went in search for a nude body corset of some sort. I ended up getting a pair of nude boyshort underwear and nude sports-like bra from Wal-mart. I also purchased a fake apple from … Read more
This Leprechaun costume is created with Kelley green trigger fabric. The edges are trimmed with green braided trim. Lapel is made from shamrock fabric and trimmed with gold sequins trim. Matching shamrock bow tie blends with the fabric of the lapel. I put elastic band on bow tie. Knickers have front fly zipper and front … Read more
My boyfriend and I were looking for some clever couples costume and couldn’t find any at the stores so we decided to make our own. We decided to do an Adam & Eve costume. For Eve I sewed a nude colored body suit and then clipped fake leaves off of a vine and attached them … Read more
I wanted to do something a little different than the usual Eve in a bikini and underwear look, but I still wanted the costume to be sexy. The materials I started with were a green bra, and old skirt and I also took an old shirt and cut two long strips of fabric from it … Read more
The illusion of the Leprechaun sitting on a pot of gold was made in 2010. I bought a plastic witche’s cauldron from which I then cut a hole through the base. I then cut a platform made of two 2″ Styrofoam boards glued together and then placed a green grassy printed fabric over and again … Read more
This was my son’s first Halloween costume – a Leprechaun costume and it was the cutest!! The costume was put together using green sweatpants and a white turtleneck. I made the vest and added some clovers on it along with a pair of gold slip on shoes. We put him in the “Pot O’ Gold” … Read more
My boyfriend and I decided to make a Homemade Little Red Riding Hood and The Big Bad Wolf Couple Costume for Halloween. I came up with this idea and I always hated the idea of spending $75.00 on a costume in a bag. For my costume: I found a super cool red, long, hooded, velvet … Read more
I made this Homemade Robin Hood Halloween Costume from McCall’s sewing pattern # 2854. I altered the patterns to fit with what my son would feel comfortable trick or treating in; not too long and not too wide, as my son is a skinny thing. The costume consists of a dark brown tunic, a red … Read more
This is my son Olin, he is 2 years old. I always wanted a redhead child, since I didn’t get one when I had him, I decided to make him one.. lol and thought he would make a great Leprechaun with for Halloween. This Leprechaun Costume was my first made form a pattern, the last … Read more
For Halloween this year, my daughter dressed in a Homemade Little Bo Peep and Her Lost Sheep Costume. To make the sheep costume, I purchased an inexpensive, plain, long-sleeved white cotton T-shirt, several sizes larger than my daughter would typically wear. I placed a piece of cardboard inside the shirt to ensure the glue wouldn’t … Read more
I got the idea for a leprechaun costume when my redheaded son put a green bowl on his head pretending it was a hat. He looked too cute! I looked for costume but there was nothing but cheap ugly costumes online. I went to the fabric store and got a $.99 boys suit pattern (easy) … Read more
This Gingerbread Man Costume was for world book day for my 12 year old son. He wanted something different and found a picture of a small child wearing something similar and we worked from that. As he was going to be wearing the costume all day we did not want an ‘all in one’ costume. … Read more