Poodle Skirts

I know this seems really early to be posting about Halloween costumes - but in case you didn't know - we are really into Halloween at our house!

Jeff decks out the yard and I just love Cuties in Costumes! I was especially excited this year because I now have 2 girls that I can dress up alike. I started thinking about what I wanted them to be this year and I remembered a fifties girl costume I saw last year that I really wanted, but it was way out of my price range. ($60) So I decided I could just make them poodle skirts myself.

I just finished making the skirts and am so thrilled with how they turned out! They are just like I imagined them in my head. I LOVE that when that happens! So, without further adieu, here are the girls poodle skirts.

I'm gonna save pics of the girls in them until the Halloween festivities begin. I did a black waistband so it would look like they were wearing a cinch belt. (That's what the girls wore in the fifties, I learned from my researching.)

They were actually pretty easy to make. The hardest part was figuring out all of the dimensions - since I didn't use a pattern. But, once I figured that part out - it was super easy and very little sewing.

I thought that the skirts would need a petticoat so I made thin tutu's for the girls to act as petticoats now and then I would fill them out after Halloween for dress up. Well, I discovered that felt holds it's shape really well and so they won't need the petticoats. So, now I can just fill out the below tutu's so they are nice and poufy.

So here's a very early Happy Halloween to all of you!