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Octopus Costume

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In keeping with our “under the sea” theme this year… Clyde will be fashioning an Octopus Costume :)
 

Trying to get a crawling nine month old to sit still for an octopus photo shoot isn’t the easiest of tasks… but we got a few pictures. Just like his brother’s,  I made sure his costume is comfortable because my boys will rip clothes off if they don’t like them. 

This is what I started with…
-light blue onesie with a truck on it
-blue pants
-XL men’s blue shirt on clearance

My main problem was that all of the blues were a different shade so I tie-dyed all of them along with Poseidon’s pillow case. Also, I tried to seam rip that embroidered car which almost resulted in a major fail… saved it by adding felt octopus eyes. 

For the “octopus leg belt”, I created a sock shape and cut out 12 halves from the XL men’s shirt. Then I sewed them together but left the tops open. I stuffed the legs and made “bias tape” (not actually on the bias- just from the tshirt scraps). To close the legs, I sandwiched them into the bias tape. The whole belt has a Velcro closure. 

Lastly, I kind of cheated and fabric glued felt “o’s” for the suckers to the back of the legs… I mean after cutting 35 “o’s” out I wasn’t abut to hand sew them on… Halloween is one day people. 

and this pretty much sums up how he felt about this little photo shoot…  bye mom.

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  5. Such a cute costume! I love the little sucker things on the underside of his belt. So cute! I found you on Tatertots and Jello, but I also saw you on Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky! Have a wonderful Halloween!

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  17. I just adore this idea! Giving it a shot for my 8 month old’s first Halloween. Was wondering if you used rubber bands for tie dying or did you just use the cinch method. Also, what did you use for stuffing. The legs look perfect! Wonderful job! Thanks for sharing your brilliant ideas with the world and with new mommies like me!

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    • I did use rubber bands :) and I just used regular pillow/stuffed animal stuffing… and thanks, its a fun costume to make! send me a pic of the final product :)

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