My mom made most of my costumes growing up, and since she ended up visiting in early October and I wanted to get some lessons on using patterns, I asked Mom to make Evie’s costume this year. Evie had been waffling between a superhero or a princess costume and when Mom said she would make the costume, I pushed her toward the princess costume since that would be the more conducive to a Mom Original. She chose the pink Aurora dress from Sleeping Beauty.
The pattern-reading and costume-making were a little nuts because the pattern was needlessly complicated (in part because they didn’t describe certain steps). We were at JoAnn’s for a couple hours longer than I had expected to be as we chose fabric and tried to figure out just how much we needed. With both kids there. And working on it at home was just as chaotic. But! It turned out great in the end and I feel like I’ve learned a lot about the process. I still need a little more practice with reading the patterns themselves, and I still can’t sew a straight line, but I’m more confident about it.
Originally, James and I thought we’d just dress Ben in blue, maybe add a blue hat, and call him Merryweather, but on Halloween I remembered I have a pink sweater and James has a green shirt, so we put those on and called ourselves Merryweather, Fauna, and Flora. Not that anyone could tell, especially since Evie was never really near us, but still. It was a private joy.
