Halloween!

For Halloween this year I decided to be Charmander from Pokemon. I am not entirely thrilled with the way this turned out but it was wearable and I wanted to do something fairly simple. I had the orange fabric from a never happened project I was going to do a million years ago. the fabric just seemed so lonely sitting on my fabric shelf for so many years and so terribly shiny and impractical for anything other then a costume.



I actually had no idea what I wanted to be this year but then my sister was showing me a pattern she had bought and explaining her costume to me, so I very un-creatively copied her.... well sort of, (she was from my little pony) she let me borrow her patten, simplicity #S0494 and I used the hood from a pattern I already had (Macalls #M6614), since Charmander has a smooth head not a pointy one.
for the pants I used Butterick Pattern #B5682 which I have made before and it was easy enough. I decided to make a few changes though, one I didn’t want pockets plus I thought it would be easier without them.
what I did not realize though is how much more give the pockets actually give the pants, so with that and the fact that this orange fabric has absolutely no give to it I discovered the pants were way too tight! I was so upset. I had even thought about the fact this fabric was very solid and made the pants a size bigger then the pair I already made.
being that the fabric was purchased so long ago I wasn't sure I could find anymore of the same and my fabric was so limited I about gave up on the costume all together, and set it aside. I did have some scraps though so after stepping away from it for a while I thought why don't I make a gusset to make it wider in the hips, since that is where it was too tight. but I didn’t want to do just a triangle gusset because I don’t know I thought it would look stupid, even though more then likely the tail would have covered it, but not only that I really only needed it in the hips not in the waist. so I thought about what to do for a few days then came up with this.....


I’m not sure what they call that design but I have seen it on pants before, so the pants ended up being a bit more difficult then I had anticipated but I was happy with them, in fact I I like them better with the new design features then I would have with them being just plain.



and just for a reference picture, here is one of Charmander.