Halloween wasn't *that* long ago, right?

Soooo, yeah.  I have been sewing, but almost all of it has been doll stuff, so there hasn't been much inclination to post that here.  The Halloween costume stuff, though, that I've been meaning to post here for...a while.

The kiddo had, as I expected, been enamored of the giant flat foam cat face mask from Walmart, and we decided it could be a part of a Nyan Cat costume?  Maybe?  Sorta?

The first thing was a multicolor cape--not exactly a rainbow, because I was determined to use cloth I already had and that meant using a selection of chromatically adjacent synthetics from the stash--green, yellow, orange, pink, purple.

I didn't get a good picture of it

I cut the first panel freehand and copied that for all the rest.  They're 90° off bias, but it worked out fine for proper dramatic cape flapping.

The hood visible is part of the hoodie worn under the cape.  The kiddo had come up with the idea of having a star print on the sleeves, and I had just the right bit of cloth to use for that...and I had almost enough of it.  Mixing prints is My Thing, of course, and I think I cane up with a good combination of cottons, with the green knit--left over from the hoodie I made for him that he pretty much lives in now--for the hood and ribbing.  I used the same pattern, too.

I did get good pictures of the hoodie

It's like...every sci fi movie poster from 1978-1984...

So of course I used some Star Trek print for the pockets (but honestly only because I didn't have enough of either the stars or the stripes so I had to use something)

Just happened to have a really good separating zipper color match

thanks to random zipper ordering from WAWAK...  Things aren't as straight as they could be, but this was supposed to be a fast costume--it's not lined, either, although I really wanted to.

Nothing surprising about the back

Yes, I didn't iron anything, as much because I'm lazy as because it would be hidden by the, ah, 'toaster pastry' part of the costume.

The first iteration, in cloth-covered cardboard sandwich board form, was...a bit large

I made a smaller, softer 'toaster pastry' that was safety pinned to the jacket for trick-or-treating, but I didn't get a picture of it.  Let's just say the kiddo was a lot happier with it...

Part of the plan for the original enormous-in-retrospect 'toaster pastry' was that I would take the cardboard out after the holiday and sew the front and back parts together to make a pillow, and I do have a picture of that pillow with the smaller softer version, for size comparison

It worked out better, proportion-wise, in the second version, and, as you can see, I added some sprinkles.  The centers of both 'toaster pastries' are flannel pieces that were given to me by very generous people.

(And they generally now are used like this)

And then there are the rainbow pants.  I had nothing (well, nothing I wanted to use for this...) as the rainbow stripe used on the jacket had been just about all of that I'd had left.  I decided to *gasp* go buy some rainbow print cloth.

In my mind, I saw a denim, with washes of hazy rainbow stripes.  While this might exist, it didn't in any of the places I looked.  It turned out that no rainbow stripe anything existed in any of the places I looked, not even as a bed sheet I could cut apart. (Yes, probably could have found something online, but...well, things may have been getting last-minute at this point, as the kiddo was also having a costume birthday party before Halloween...)

So I improvised. (No-one is surprised.)

I had, not long before then, purchased a perhaps unreasonable amount of yardages from a thrift store, some of which had included bundles of "oooh I like that!" cloth mixed with less impressive cloth.  Some of that less impressive cloth was a fairly large piece of a white waffle weave cotton.  I cut pants using Burda 9672 (I think?) and sewed the front and side seams.  Then a layer of free local newspapers went down on the vinyl floor by the door to the garage while Husband retrieved the narrow paint roller from storage.  I made an impromptu palette and grabbed some jars of paint I'd mixed long ago for airbrush use, as well as mixed up a few more colors as needed, and started rollin' on the pants.

I let them dry overnight, then sewed the back seam and inseams, hemmed them, and folded over the waistband and added elastic.  They were a bit crunchy at first, but softened with wear

The final costume was a lot more fun than the actual trick-or-treating was...