Halloween 2014: Anatomy of a Tarantula (Costume)

I know, I know, your brain is so far past Halloween that you're mentally stuffing turkeys and already using your best pen to check your gift lists twice. But if I don't get this down and documented now it will be gone. So humor me and think back on glowing jack-o-lanterns and too much candy. [Tangent: Why are all those people giving my kindergartner fist-fulls of candy anyway?! One piece is fine, thankyouverymuch.] That same child with a literal overflowing bucket of candy (seriously enough with the candy, people!) had a very clear vision of what she wanted to be this year: I present to you Hairy Tarantula, Age Five.

All eight of these arms gave me a hug and it was wonderful.

Halloween Hack: A Robot that Can Sit!

Halloween! It's almost here, and if you regularly use a sewing machine that means it's time to think costumes. Stephanie of Swoodson Says has put together a great blog tour to help you out; Halloween Hacks; PDF Patterns Halloweenified. For my part of the tour, I'm going to show you how to take three simple patterns (a dress, pajama bottoms, and a raglan tee) to create a flexible, sit-down-able Robot Baby [in our house Robot Baby is always said in our best robot voices].