I Made This: My Halloween Costume

Hap­py Hal­loween! I am a big fan of the hol­i­day (because, can­dy) but nev­er real­ly made an elab­o­rate cos­tume before—until this year. Final­ly , I got my act togeth­er and worked on an out­fit months and months before­hand (I’m a marathon­er, not a sprint­er).

I’m a bouquet of flowers!

To pro­duce this project required a lot of felt and hot glue. It was time con­sum­ing, but not dif­fi­cult. (Process-ori­ent­ed peo­ple, you’d prob­a­bly enjoy mak­ing this cos­tume.) Basi­cal­ly, it’s a green hood (made from felt) with a bunch of hand­craft­ed felt flow­ers glued on top and around the crown of the base. These are the tuto­ri­als I used:

• Felt Cab­bage Rose
• Felt Anemone
• Felt Peony
• Felt Ranun­cu­lus

They’re super easy to fol­low and well-doc­u­ment­ed so that you can fol­low along. I wish I had an excuse to make more! After the flow­ers were assem­bled, arranged, and glued, I wrapped tulle around the hood to cre­ate the appear­ance of tis­sue paper. I com­plet­ed it by tying it with a coral-col­ored bow.

I tried to get a picture with my little baby Sadie. She was not pleased.