My current nebulous yet evil plans: costuming Laurel for A-Kon as Coraline. It's probably the last year she'll be small enough to pull it off convincingly (in the book she's an 11-year-old small for her age, but the movie version does not look that old), she's agreed to it, and when else will she wear entire outfits I made? (She grew out of happily wearing whatever I pick out for her a few years ago.)
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http://coraline.com/images/sweater_pattern.pdf
Right now I am considering the pajamas. Laurel is down with orange polka dots and I have an orange solid I could stamp with fabric paint to make the dots. (I could do a custom print with Spoonflower, but that's pretty spendy for a one-shot costume.) Am a little confused because she has a dressing gown/bathrobe in the book, but that's par for me.
A-Kon is a three-day event so I'm thinking the pajamas for Friday afternoon/evening, maybe the starry sweater outfit for Saturday and the raincoat for Sunday. I already have a pair of yellow wellies that are about her size.
mmmmm dots dots dots
Sadly, most of my polkadot fabric is white on a solid background; the only other multicolor dots I have are a multisize multicolor on white remnant from making clown costumes and some multicolor on blue (same print as this shift) that I bought just because it was on the dollar-a-yard table. I seem to have a problem with that dollar table, which is also where I found such winners as a cartoony skull fabric -- non-realistic, but also neither pirate nor one of the many awesome Alexander Henry skull prints.
Which reminds me! Kaufman did a dancing skeletons batik line that is OMFG cute. I got a cut of the multicolor skeletons on black for Christmas and can't bring myself to cut into it. I feel like Gollum with his preciousss.
(ETA link to the dancing skeletons fabric.)
Edited at 2009-02-06 04:44 am (UTC)
sounds like a darling idea.