These costumes were made for my children for Halloween 2007. Mister D is an astronaut and Miss R is Laura Ingalls Wilder. Both costumes were made without patterns. I used pieces of their clothing for scale and shape.
The astronaut is made from cotton/poly sweatshirt fleece. The suit part is modeled after a pair of footie pajamas with a zipper. This was my first time putting a zipper in and I was very pleased with how easy it was. The helmet was based on my memories of bad vintage sci-fi. I made the shiny blue trim with some scrap lame, fat piping cord and hot glue. The stars and flag are iron on patches and the NASA logos are done freehand with red fabric paint. I managed to pull this together in less than a week as Mister D changed his mind less than a week before Halloween.
The prairie girl costume took me quite a long while to get right and even still there are things I see wrong with it, namely the way too long petticoat. Meh. Anyway, the dress is made from cotton calico with a tiny red and white flower print. The apron and petticoat are cream colored cotton broadcloth and the petticoat has an elastic waistband and poly lace trim. I used one of Miss R's shirts to get the size and shapes for the bodice, the rest of the costume was patternless, using period costume photographs for direction.
The guy in the middle is Mister P. His t-shirt loudly states "The IS My Costume." Nuff said.
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