One Tacky Jacket

Since my attempt to make the plain gray zip front hoodie more appealing didn't go over well (which is fine--in retrospect, I really don't know what I was thinking in making something for The Child in gray), I have been keeping an eye out for a more suitable fabric, to make another zip front hoodie that isn't so short, which is the problem with the one currently being chosen.

Nothing turned up in the last trip to the craft thrift store, and Walmart seems to have stopped carrying mill end precuts, but I planned to keep checking both places sporadically anyway, just in case.

Then I looked at Fabric Mart, and, oh, did they have some amazingly obnoxious print knits.  Cotton blend (I know that a pure cotton loud print medium weight knit is asking a lot from random find bargain fabric searches), and on deep discount, in the ever-changing reduction way of Fabric Mart.

I asked The Child's opinion, and got a snicker in return, which I took as approval, so I ordered it (along with...other deep discount obnoxious fabrics.  I have plans for everything.)

I didn't want to use New Look 6766 again, because I wasn't in the mood for raglan sleeves, so I turned to McCall's 7668 for the first time.  As given, M7668 has a rather Pokémon Trainer Style

I borrowed New Look 6766's cuffs and waistband and here we are

Before going on, I will say that this may not be finished--I think it would be fun with some sort of text across the chest, rendered in appliqué or freezer paper stencil.  The Child agrees, but hasn't yet thought of the perfect thing to put there. (I quickly nixed the suggestion for all of the lyrics of Pac-Man Fever.)

Blue GuGuu

 The kiddo was bored at a school in-person testing day (he's still doing remote school, so he doesn't have many chances to be bored at school) and drew a very sarcastic picture of Puyo Puyo Carbuncle.  I thought the drawing was fantastic so recently copied it onto freezer paper to make a stencil...which ended up not sticking well to this Walmart mill-end precut synthetic fabric, so my copy ended up with Issues.  I did consider adding more decoration to obscure it, but decided not to over-complicate things.

I turned to the Puyo Nexus Wiki to reference how to write the various forms of "goo" that Carbuncle says, drew the hiragana really fast, and made another freezer paper stencil...which I tried tacking on with masking tape.  The masking tape stuck fine to the slick back of the freezer paper, but not to the fabric, so I ended up holding the paper down with various paint pots.  I did a base layer of white paint for both, and used fabric medium, and still made a mess.  The kiddo thinks it's funny, and that's all that matters.

Sponge Stardust Skeleton

 Going to start with the declaration that I do not, as of this post, own any fabric medium.  So, when I used the freezer paper bones left over from what I used to make the reverse appliqué rib cage shirt to paint a rib cage on another shirt, I knew it would end up...crunchy.