Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Chloe as Kitty

Chloe and I were out shopping one afternoon and happened upon the fabric store.

As we were passing down the aisles...
Her arms outstretched trying to feel as much as she could...
We passed some super soft and fuzzy "cat fur" material...

With a super cute "woooaaahhh!" coming out of her in a high pitched voice,
Of course we had to stop and get some...

So for Halloween this year...
I've given it my best...
I've made her a little kitty costume...

It's not perfect, but it's cute on her...
And to make it extra funny, I realized when I sewed the tail on, it's a bit off center.
Oh well... she at least will be able to sit down and not have that tail in an uncomfortable place...

I used some of her clothes as a template and cut it free style...
Stitched it by hand to avoid excess frustration from using a sewing machine.

Makes me wish I would've made mom let me sit while she made stuff...
She used to tell me that I could get a needle in the eye if I messed with her sewing machine without her around.
She knew my interest, and I look back now and realize that she just wanted to make sure I didn't touch the machine without her around, and wanted to avoid any horrible sewing machine accident.

I rather enjoy using a needle and thread by hand anyway...
I think you would really like it all, and would be laughing with me about the tail...

1 comment:

mairedodd said...

oh, marsha - i love this! and it brings back such very sweet memories for me... chloe looks adorable and will never ever know that her tail wasn't on 'perfect'... emily was a black cat too around that age, only i used a black pair of sweat pants and zipper up sweat shirt - she loved it... and we always had (and still have) all kinds of animal ears around... such a wonderful costume made for her by her loving mom - now that is special! your mom is proud & smiling i am sure~