2025 Crafts

 Non-holiday pillow covers.

Finally framed this.

Tried to hike, did this instead (and some mending)

Pressed flower art.

Chewbacca cookies for May the 4th.

Paper bag pinatas

Finished this little pouch for Sienna.

Cork vases for succulents

Little plant embroidery I did during soccer and on the train to Pat's.

Robin Hood Halloween Costumes

This year's costumes consisted of Amazon and thrifted clothing, crocheted hats, and I sewed Dalton's lute bag and Marlow's cape.  Sienna actually made her own hat this year.

She also made the tails.  We splurged on a matching loungefly.

 The turtle shell didn't see much use because it was so hot.

Halloween Crafts

Arthur got into Inktober

So did Maggie, but I think this is from Dragonember or something

Villains puzzle from my birthday

Ghost pillows with friends

And my girl

Succulent pumpkins

And a helper

 

Sword in the Stone Halloween Costumes

Super fun Sword in the Stone Halloween Costumes. I loved making these.  Maggie, of course, is rewearing the owl costume I made her in 2nd grade.

 

Toy Story Halloween Costumes

Toy Story! Loved our costumes this year.

John: Buzz Lightyear

Susie: Jessie

Maggie: Rex

Dalton: Hamm

Sienna: Barbie

Arthur: Slinky Dog

Crocheted hats as usual. Except for Barbie, who was all set with her blond.

And Jessie, who dyed her hair.

Buzz Lightyear:

I did iron on with felt for the shirt, and for the wings, which also had stiff stabilizer in the middle, and elastic straps.  John also had crocheted gloves.

Jessie: Felt ironed onto an old t shirt, and hand embroidered red swirls.  I sewed the cow fabric onto an old pair of jeans, and added big felt tabs to the side of the chaps.

Rex:  The tail was made the same way as the dinosaur tail I made Maggie when they were 3. The hardest part of this costume was finding a green shirt in the right color.

Hamm: I tacked the brown felt circle on the front, and a black rectangle on the back, so I could snip them off and he could wear the shirt normally after Halloween. 

Barbie:  Sienna's leotard and leggings were ordered from Amazon.  We added a pink fold-over-elastic belt, and pink lipstick.

Slinky Dog: Once again, Arthur is wearing plain brown pajamas for his Halloween costume.  The slinky is foam tubing I ordered on Amazon.  I sewed it on each side.  It tended to rip where sewn through, and I had to do repairs between Halloween events, but we made it through the season.  He also had a foam tail with a felt oval sewn on the end, sewn into his pants for a tail.

 

Homemade Halloween: Aladdin Family Costumes

We saved our Aladdin theme for this year when we could go to the Disney party again.  John: Genie, Me: Jasmine, Maggie: Magic Carpet, Dalton: Aladdin, Sienna: Rajah, Arthur: Abu

I crocheted all the hats of course.  This is the closest we've come to all six of us having a crocheted hat.

Nearly everything else is from Amazon.

Genie: ostrich feathers on ribbon, rolled up for the boop.  Crocheted wrist bands.

Jasmine: borrowed the necklace, earrings are from Walmart.

Magic Carpet: Used iron on adhesive (Heat n Bond) to add felt shapes to a pair of sweats.  Made tassels out of yarn.  Also, the hat isn't quite my usual pattern.  I did back loops only, and did it in a spiral shape, instead of chaining up each round, to make it look like coiled rope.

Aladdin and Abu vests are loosely traced from Simplicity 1509. The Aladdin pants were what I agonized most over.  In the end, they took about a half hour to make. Once I got brave enough to just cut what I thought would work, and add some elastic.

Rajah: Fabric painted the stripes on, and used Heat n Bond to add the white belly.

Rajah and Abu tails: I cut out a tail shape, sewed it into a tube, stuffed it with fluff and a piece of wire hanger, and sewed it to an elastic waistband.

 

Avengers Costumes

This year, I was outvoted and ended up making Avengers costumes for everyone. 

Except myself.  I bought a NIN t shirt and SHIELD hat online, and went as Captain Marvel's 90s alter-ego.

John was Iron Man. I crochet his hat and gloves, and we ordered an Iron Man compression shirt and red sweats online.

Maggie was the wasp. Another crocheted hat. I cut out a gold thorax and top stitched it onto a black shirt.  It turned out surprisingly well.  

We decided to make light up tulle wings.  The wings are made just like the tulle tutus, except tied around popsicle sticks instead of elastic.  Then I got glued the two popsicle sticks together, added black elastic for arm straps, and hot glued on the battery pack for the lights.  I sewed the lights to the wings with a few little stitches here and there.

Dalton was Captain America. Another hat, it took me a while to figure out how to make the wings, but I also used wings for Arthur's hat so it was worth adding them.  The star, stripes, and "shield" treat bag are all made from felt, and some of it I even glued on rather than sewed. 

Sienna's costume was my favorite.  Raccoon hat, (real) raccoon tail, overalls, orange shirt, baby Groot friend, and a boom box treat bag.

Arthur was an adorable mini Thor. His hat had silver thread in the yarn, making it shiny. I used sharpie to make lines on his shirt, and sewed on felt circles. It took me several attempts to figure out how to attach the cape, and I finally settled for sewing buttons on the shirt and elastic loops on the cape. And inflatable hammer.  A must have.