The most wonderful time of the year is nearly here… Halloween! The perfect time to be anything your heart desires. Or to dress your kiddos up as anything their hearts desire! So pull your fabric sheers out of your secret hiding place, grab your faithful glue gun, and get crafting on a totally epic Halloween costume!
YOUR MISSION - CRAFT AN AWESOME HALLOWEEN COSTUME!
The Rules:
Your costume may be for yourself, or for a family member or friend.
You may have help or collaborate on the costume with an immediate family member like your spouse.
Your costume may contain some purchased elements, but must be predominantly handmade by you. (Examples of purchased items could be a crown, to go with the princess dress you sewed.)
Each LC member may only submit one entry, which cannot already be posted on its own thread. If you wish to submit a group or family set of costumes, it will count as 1 entry.
Additionally, your entry may not be submitted for any other contest in this community.
All entries must be posted by midnight on November 4th.
The winner of the Halloween Costume Challenge will receive a $20 Amazon gift card!
Additional Details:
You should submit your entry by creating a project post on the Fashion & Wearables Completed Projects sub-board.
You are REQUIRED to have a descriptive title and then include “- Halloween Costume Entry 2021” (example: Jennie’s Witch Costume - Halloween Costume Entry 2021). Once you have posted your submission, you need to reply to this thread with a link to your post. If you do not do this, your entry will not be considered.
Voting will happen on November 5th - 11th.
The winner will be announced on November 12th.
If cheating of any sort is discovered, the applicable entry and votes will be disqualified.
If you have any questions, or want to chat about your crafting progress for this challenge, post it here! Let’s have fun!
Is it ALWAYS in the yard!?! I think i just threw up a little. That clown outfit was horrifying on its own in October but to stumble upon it in like, March!?!
Well, that brings up something: what about a costume made for a human years ago and then modified, added to, re accessorized into a different thing for a skeleton? {waggles eyebrows]
That one is harder to answer. The spirit of the challenge is to craft a Halloween costume this year, hence being the 2021 Halloween Costume Challenge. We definitely don’t allow people to enter a costume they made in the past, for this year. But of course, I’ve definitely pulled old costumes from storage and heavily reworked them for new shows while working in theatre. I feel like it would have to be a significant redesign, and the kind of thing you should show your work (before & after pics) when presenting it for this challenge.
Finished my costume and my sons costume! Now I just gotta get some pictures taken (the daughter and husband went store-bought inflatable costume route this year).
I love making all my kids costumes, in my head! But, sometimes when they decide store bought I am like OMG THANK YOU!!! My daughters 2 years ago was a couture princess fairy with 8 layers of tule over a sequence dress with a hand made fully lined satin vest and peplum. I was like WTF was I thinking??? My son that year chose a dinosaur pattern out of a simplistic book, which given it was simplistic you’d be all OK this is great! Yeah it had more pieces than a vogue pattern! 57 pieces for 1 dinosaur 1 piece! He went store bought this year
Same - I love being able to say I made the costume, but there is usually a moment about half way through where I look around and think, ‘whose idea was this?!’
Same! This year the daughter and husband have inflatable dinosaur costumes. I made a T-Rex skeleton costume for my son and a Pteranodon skeleton costume for myself, so they all still go together. I love saying I made the costumes too, but dang skippy, making those skeletons was hard! I had to make up the pattern myself. And we aren’t even going anywhere for Halloween. Aside from you fine folks no one will see all the hard work. But it made the kids happy, so worth it. I remember one year my daughter wanted my husband to be an owl for Halloween, and I was pregnant sitting on the floor fabric gluing thousands of feathers to his wings wondering why I hadn’t just bought something. Every year has those moments, but the sheer joy the costumes bring the kids make it all worth it. At least they still wear the lab coats I made them last year regularly.
I draw the line at sequins. I hate sewing them. I admire you doing sequins and satin and tulle, I couldn’t handle that. And dinosaurs are way more complicated than they look like they should be!
Halloween Costume Challenge! 
Naw. But we do live in the woods, so wouldn’t be shocking to run into some kind of bones out there if you’re paying attention. Rarely human. 
