As several of you guessed, this year I was Ms Frizzle from The Magic Schoolbus for Halloween.  If you (sadly) aren't familiar with the PBS show and the tv show, here's the theme song and intro: Ms Frizzle's dress always matched the curriculum for that installment, so I've got a belt and sleeve trim made of streptococci bacteria that are being consumed by white blood cells.  There are red blood cells all over the dress, but some of them are ruptured and are spilling out the malaria … [Read more...]

This is the last in-progress Monday update for my Ms. Frizzle costume you'll get.  I've got to have the whole thing finished by this Saturday.  So, I spent most of Saturday drawing germs, tracing them onto interfacing, ironing the interfacing onto fabric, and then pinning and topstitching the appliques onto the dress. In case that was a little in the weeds, I'm drawing designs onto this kind of fabric: The interfacing gets ironed onto the pretty fabric to make it stronger and to … [Read more...]