Meltintalle's Closet

For a hobbit costume, I dug in my he costume closet. I borrowed the blouse from my sister's gypsy outfit, one of her skirts, made a stomacher from skirt scraps, refashioned the dress that original started out as a recreation of Daniell's work gown fro Ever Afte by removing its last set of trim and pinning up the hem, and topped it all off with one of my first sewing projects: an apron. 

I should have taken pictures while making the hobbit feet. I had an old pair of sandals with only a single cross strap. I folded a bit of felt over that and shaped it to my feet before sewing on hanks of llama hair. Then I sewed the felt to the sandals. 

Should I have occasion to wear this again (next year, perhaps?) I will have to remember that the underskirt is meant for a smaller waist than mine, actually lace the dress shut instead of being lazy and pin the blouse so it doesn't ride up. 

More experiments with curls are needed as well. The rag curls were cute and held up well (they would be absolutely perfect should I ever do an Izumi Curtis costume wait, those aren't curls), but I keep envisioning ringlets...