My little falcon is four years old and well into My Little Pony.
Halloween is coming and she wishes to portray Nightmare Moon.
As both a loving and a crafty mum, I’m making her a costume.
We started with research and creating a Pinterest board. There are some very cool interpretations out there. I decided on a decorated set of sweats.
We bought embellishing fabrics. It took me ages to find a periwinkle to match the illustrations. Everything was lavender, which is too red, or light blue, which is too blue. We also found some sweet, spangled tulle – upper right in the pic – that I can match with some regular tulle for the mane and tail.
We washed the fabrics, some by hand, some in the machine. Got them ironed and then set out to get the design done. I went with freehand sketching and it’s coming out really well.
Fun fact about me, I have an interior voice that is always looking for the ways that I’m not good enough. It told me that being “able to draw” meant that one should be able to draw something with no reference – just hey presto, with no model or anything. This is, naturally, bullshit.
I measured the sleeves and legs to get the right size. I got some reference images up on my phone and traced out the hoof guard motif onto paper and breastplate design right onto the hoodie.
Then I transferred the breastplate onto paper, added another sheet and traced out the back of the breastplate. I’m going to have one piece wrap around and I’m feeling very clever about it.
She has school Halloween on the 28th, so that’s my deadline. More to come!
