Tag Archives: Halloween costume

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I share my work over on Instagram @sarahgoerquilts. Here are my top nine posts from the year. Colorful short hair, what's on my design wall, #IQQuiltFest, QuiltCon, and something sparkly. I look forward to more sewing time in 2026.

  1. Day 5 of #IGQuiltFest: why do I quilt? my 2023 submission to the Viva Magenta Pantone Quilt Challenge
  2. New hair at the start of the year
  3. QuiltCon in Phoenix: bye QuiltCon
  4. QuiltCon in Phoenix: hello QuiltCon
  5. 100 Days of 4-inch turquoise/teal scrappy slabs
  6. I made my daughter's Halloween costume from scratch (reel)
  7. Quilts Unscripted bee block Charles (@feltlikesweets) made for me
  8. Day 3 of #IGQuiltFest: my sewing machine
  9. Day 1 of #IGQuiltFest: hello!

You can view past Top Nines for 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Thanks for visiting!

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Just 100 sewing days left until Halloween! Are you making your kids' (or your own) costumes this year? What do you have planned?

I like the kiddos to coordinate for Halloween. Ya know, at least for now when I have a bit of influence. For Halloween 2012 The Boy decided he'd wear his airplane costume again. So that left me thinking about what The Girl could be. On Halloween she was going to be 5 months old. I decided the perfect pairing to the airplane would be a bag of airline peanuts. I found this image online of a bag of Southwest Dry Roasted Peanuts and went to work.

Southwest-DryRoastPeanuts

I bought a blue pillowcase, thinking I would cut neck and arm holes and slip it over her. Then I decided since I normally wore her in the baby carrier that I could just wear her and pin it on around her. I used some fabric paint and spent a few nights painting the pillowcase in the likeness of the example. (I left off the "byte-sized fares" part simply due to time.) Here's the final result.

bag o peanuts costume for baby carrier

I'm linked up to Bernie's Handmade Halloween at Needle and Foot.