{"id":1086,"date":"2008-10-01T07:21:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T11:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2008-09-30T08:43:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T12:43:59","slug":"this-years-costumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"This Year’s Costumes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ShadaughterI’ve previously mentioned<\/a> that I tend to go overboard where Halloween costumes are concerned. (Where everything else is concerned too, actually; my family’s motto is, “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.) This year, however, even I think I may have gone too far.<\/p>\n

Oh, it started innocently enough; I dug this<\/a> pattern out of my stash a few months ago and decided to make this princess costume<\/a> for a friend’s niece. I figured I could dress Shadowboy as Robin Hood or a knight or something and let them trick-or-treat as a couple.<\/p>\n

But then Shadaughter started watching The Tudors<\/I> on cable and decided that she wanted one of those fancy dresses. In a moment of weakness I agreed to make this one<\/a>, which resulted in this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So then I thought, “I know! I’ll make Shadowboy into Henry VIII!”<\/p>\n

I have instructed my family that, should I make such a pronouncement in the future, I am to be slapped until I change my mind.<\/p>\n

Tudor costume patterns sized for four-year-olds are not exactly easy to find, so I eventually wound up improvising. I cut this pattern<\/a> off short and made it into a tunic. Then I lengthened a square-bottomed vest pattern and added puffy sleeves and fur trim, turning it into a surcoat. The only thing I was able to use an actual pattern for was the hat, which was adult-sized and just had to be cut down a whole lot. The preceding paragraph makes the whole process sound a hell of a lot easier than it actually was.<\/p>\n

The final result was this<\/a>. (The scan’s a bit dark, so here’s another pose<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I’m very pleased with the results, but I need to find an easier hobby.<\/p>\n

p.s. – Here are a couple of additional shots, because I feel like showing off:
\nShadowboy the Eighth and his Queen<\/a>
\nShadaughter and Shadowboy<\/a> (this one just kills me dead)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve previously mentioned that I tend to go overboard where Halloween costumes are concerned. (Where everything else is concerned too, actually; my family’s motto is, “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.) This year, however, even I think I may have gone too far. Oh, it started innocently enough; I dug this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}