I decided that I would make my son’s costume for Halloween. The last piece of clothing I had made was over 10 years ago. Since then I have sewed pouches and pillow cases oh and scrapbook pages.

So I went to Wal-mart (there are no other places in town that sells fabric!) and picked out a pattern. The pattern I chose is a pirate costume. I then picked out fabric. I had to call my husband to measure my son (forgot to do that) so I would know what size he wore and how much fabric I would need. Then when I had to buy single-fold bias tape I had to call my mom to ask what it was used for. The bias tape comes in a multitude of colors and I didn’t know what color I would need. She told me it would be used in the casing for the elastic band in the shirt. So I needed white bias tape. Well that was the only color they were out of. So I bought a light beige (bamboo). I also picked out buttons. Then I went to the costume department to look for Pirate add ons like a hat, sword and eye patch. Nothing. So I went to target. Nothing. I went to the BX. Nothing. Kmart. I got a pirate sword for $2.99. I went to the mall hoping for a costume shop. Nope.

I came home and decided to cut out the pieces for the pattern. First I had to unfold 3 sheets of extremely thin paper and cut around the pieces I needed. I cut out all the pieces (roughly around just to seperate them). I then pinned them to the fabric and cut them out. It was only after I cut them out I remembered I was suppose to cut notches out so that I could line things up more easily.

That was all I could take today so I will do more later.