Yes, somehow my middle-school son’s friends were all into Monty Python and decided to dress as monks this year, giving me the perfect opportunity to use up some fabric (actually a $5 thrift-store tablecloth) that I had originally bought for another purpose, and, afterwards,to photograph him anonymously for the blog (don’t worry, family and friends got to see his face).
I’m rather pleased with how this came out — I used my older son’s 8th grade graduation gown to get a sense of the size of the robe itself and found a set of instructions for the hood (as of this writing, those instructions don’t seem to exist online any longer, or at least temporarily are missing, but the link may work again later; in the meantime, here’s the google cache but it’s missing the image, which I’ve recreated at the bottom of the post). The hem at the bottom was pre-finished because I simply placed the finished edge of the tablecloth there. And since the hood covered up the collar, I didn’t fuss with this at all, but just left an opening large enough for his head to fit through.
I’m now undecided what to do with this — if I want it to last for another Halloween season, or maybe for, two years from now, my youngest son to use as a saint costume, I’d have to finish up some of the edges which have begun to fray; as you can see, I didn’t finish the edge on the hood at all, and what you can’t see is that the sleeves are just cuffed up, not finished. And I ought to finish all the seams so they don’t fray either. Or I could just pack it away and see what happens.
So, there you have it. Since I’ve never figured out a way to make useful things with my sewing skills, and I’m not the sort of person who can use the machine to make custom fashions, my opportunities to get into Sewing Mode are limited. I guess once all my kids have moved past Halloween costumes I’ll have to find some other way to keep the machine functional.
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