Halloween Costume...RAWR

A requirement for my fashion class is to make a Halloween costume. At first glance this did not seem like a hard task, that assumption was completely false. Being the ambitious person that I am, I decided to pick a pattern that was a bit more challenging than what I would normally attempt. I have now realized that being ambitious can be a real pain. For Halloween I chose to be Glinda the Good witch of the North. I thought it would be fun to dress in all pink and twirl around in a fluffy skirt, until it came down to making the costume. In the Wizard of Oz, Glinda's outfit is very extravagant. It's made up of a full skirt and sparkly top. What I didn't anticipate was how hard it would be to make a skirt and top. First of all the skirt involved a lot of tool and overlay. Overlay is a shiny fabric that is place over the skirt to make it look sparkly. Tool is a net like fabric that is put under the skirt to puff it out, until it looks like a tutu... And if it looking like a ballerina wasn't bad enough, the top is actually a corset! Something new I learned today, a hammer is involved in the corset making process. Now doesn't that sound ridiculous, using a hammer to make a costume! Apparently, eyelets (which are little circles that the ribbon/tie of the corset runs through)  needs to be hammered into place.
All in all, I have spent 4 weeks making a Halloween costume, that I will wear for one day.

Here is a picture of the pattern by SIMPLICITY that I have used. The name is a lie, this is the hardest most aggravating project I have ever had to do.