Stewie Griffin - Now with Lois costume!

My son has been giving me a real hard time the last few months (terrible twos) so I've decided he needs to dress up as someone determined to destroy his mother...who else but Stewie Griffin! Tongue

Every year I do my best to make our costumes with stuff from the second hand store. I got the yellow turtleneck, red overalls, a flesh coloured bed sheet, and the shoes there. Rupert the teddy bear was a freebie we got in the mail from some baby food company when my son was born, and the phaser gun is just a small toy squit gun from the dollar store.

The overalls had a square patch in the front that left a darker spot on the fabric, so I decided to make the name tag to cover it up. I printed that up on the computer, glued it on some cardboard, wrapped it in clear sticky paper, and then glued a pin on the back.

I originally had planned to make a 3-D head, I had glued it all together out of pieces of foam, but for some reason, I just couldn't manage to get the material sewn on/around it properly. Also every time I tried to put it on my son's head to test out the fit, he would freak and not want to put it on. After my 2nd 3-D attempt failed, I took my son's cue and tried to come up with something easier to make, and something my son would agree to wearing.

What I finally ended up doing was draw the shape of Stewie's head on to a piece of cardboard and then trace that onto my material. I cut it out, sewed up part of it, slipped the cardboard inside for support and then stuffed it with some batting. I then pinned the head/face onto my son's balaclava style winter hat which I knew he liked wearing. After Halloween I'll just unpin it so we can keep using the hat.

After looking at these pics, I'm not 100% happy with it. I'm gonna loosely sew some more of my flesh coloured material to disguise the hat a bit more. Up next, I work on my Lois costume! Grin

Thanks for looking!

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So here is my Lois is costume I put together. All items except the wig are from the second hand store. I also made a Brian dog that is humping my leg Tongue

The dog was my sons. It is a stuffed animal that came with a bunch of velcro parts that you could change around to give it it's own look. I took all the parts off and I was just left with a bare dog. The eyes are styrofoam balls, the tag was one of my cats old rabies tags flipped around, the nose is glue gunned on felt, and the ears are just foam board. I didn't have anything else in the house to make them with but if I come across anything in the next few days, and I have time, I might replace them.