I MADE THIS!!! :) Well, yes, I made that cute little boy with the bowl haircut, too, but I was talking about the cape. ;)
And I am ecstatic that it actually looks like what I wanted it to look like! I have a very hard time buying the cheap and flimsy costumes out there, but I have done it for the past few years and decided it was time to step it up a bit. It took a bit of convincing to get Colin to abandon his dreams of a Boba Fett costume, but in the end, he became excited about the whole bloody vampire concept.
At first, I hemmed and hawed over whether or not I should drop the cash on a cape pattern. After all, I am no seamstress. It seemed like it was going to be fairly easy to figure out, though, so I finally decided to wing it. Hey--I'm a visual person. And pretty crafty. Hmmm....but how in the world was I going to get that collar to stay up? And how do I attach it to the rest of the darned cape? I read about fusible interfacing and decided to use that for the collar. I found a large enough remnant of very thick Pellon at Joann's and paid $0.50 for it! The black satin was 1/2 off and the red satin was a large, deconstructed shawl I found at a thrift store for $3! I also found the rest of his costume at the same thrift store--tuxedo tails complete with dress shirt for $6.50, and a large lion head brooch with "jewel" which I'll make into a medallion. For less than $20, he'll have a custom vampire costume to show off at the Halloween Festival this Friday! :) Go me! Now back to bed........
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