My son, aged 4, came home from school a couple of weeks after starting, with a note saying he needed to come in fancy dress the next week. The theme - food. School helpfully said he could be a chef or a waiter or anything at all related to food.
Where to start? Spend a load of money on buying a costume which he'd only wear once? Cobble something together to make a chef or waiter costume from normal clothes? Or attempt something creative?
I should say here that I am not remotely creative - I was rubbish at art at school, don't draw or paint and my sewing skills aren't up to much (although I do have an old sewing machine which my Mum gave me during my Cath Kidston/domestic goddess phase but which I'd barely used since). But I am ever so slightly competitive and didn't want my little boy to look out of place!
So I needed to find something that would be easy to make, look ok, and something he could bear wearing all day. Beyond that, no idea! A google search proved to be of little help - lots of Americans doing fancy things for Halloween and patterns, templates and the like for amazing creations. Nothing for a novice sewer with few ideas.
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