With Halloween fast approaching, I thought I would blog about Halloween costumes. I have decided, once again, to make my children's Halloween costumes. This year's costumes aren't quite ready yet, so I thought I would blog about my son's costume from last year.
I was looking for a costume online when I fell in love with a Sock Monkey costume. Of course they only sold it in one size, a size that would not fit my son. My heart was totally set on this adorable costume. The more I looked at it the more I thought it really didn't look that complicated. So I set out to make one myself.
It was pretty simple actually. I went to a thrift store and bought a Men's XL sweater in the color I wanted his monkey to be. I also bought a red sweater and a white sweater to do the rest of the monkey. I was lucky enough to find a sweater the had a button opening at the top. I made the side with the opening the back. Having the button opening made getting him in and out of his costume possible.
I am not much of a sewer, so I made it as easy on myself as possible. I turned the sweater inside out. I placed a pair of my son's pajamas that he fit in at the moment on top of the sweater (so that the neck hole on the sweater lined up with the neck hole on his jammies and so that the jammies were centered on the sweater). Then I placed pins along the perimeter of the jammies to mark where I wanted the hem of his costume to be. Then I simply sewed along the pins that outlined his jammies. Cut away the excess material, turn right side out, and you have an instant costume. Well, somewhat.
To make the multi colored hat and tail, I sewed a piece of white sweater and an extra piece (what I cut away) of the other sweater together. For the tail, I folded the material in half (inside out) and then free handed the tail as I sewed. It's basically just a long strip, not too complicated. For the hat, I folded the material (inside out) and then placed a hat that I knew fit my son's head on top of it. Using the same method for the hat as I did the main part of the costume, I used pins to outline the hat. These pins marked where I wanted to sew to make is monkey hat.
The I cut out the white and red pieces for the face and butt. I used iron-on adhesive to secure these pieces since the stitching would be noticable in these areas and again, I am not a good sewer. I cut out little half circles for the ears and hand sewed those onto the hat. Then I just attached some buttons for eyes and found some white gloves.
And Voila! A cute, affordable costume.
Sincerely,
The Do-It-Yourself-er
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