Parrot Costume (call it done)

Let's start by admitting that I know this was an over-ambitious first project. I'm not so sure that it really looks like a parrot in any identifiable way, the intentions and drawing were easier :) and it seems to have all gotten away from me...but it was fun and he loves it which was the goal of this exercise. Suggestions are always welcome, so long as they are done nicely.

One major problem was that I had no model while making it!!! He gave me 5 seconds twice for" hey, does this fit like this?....gone. The red fabric is so stretchy and a little heavy.

As you can see I've been lazy, and only attempted to really "feather" the back and hood, as a result the cape is much heavier than the rest of it. I tried it on him this afternoon and what USED to line up as shoulders stretched and fell on the back of his arm. OY. Tried to pull it forward but adding some front weight and another line of stitching on the shoulder to help prevent the feathers from flipping over. I may try to add some more, but I'm pretty much ready to call it good.

He's holding a "seed bag." We're going to be putting them in to the gift bags filled with sunflower seeds.

His favorite part is really the tights. He didn't want to take them off, I think it's a Peter Pan thing. Or maybe it's a 9PM and mommy isn't making me go to bed so she can take pictures of me thing.

Parrot Costume 3

My deadline has been bumped up to THIS Friday (he needs to dress up for the class party), so I'm making extra effort to actually work on it, it helped that I had to stay up doing laundry anyways. The back is almost done, the orange and red pieces need to be sewn but they are pinned darn it. Debating on doing the front/inside of the wings and fixing some bald patches in the yellow (the red is a very very stretchy fabric and lets tell the truth, I eyeballed instead of measuring most of the pieces). Interesting problem with the red: I used 3 ponchos that I bought same store, same brand, same day, and they looked the same in the store but they are very different shades when I lay them on top of each other. You can see at the base of the neck, the hood is red and the piece on top is much more orange.

Quick Bus Sketch

A woman so kindly fell asleep on the bus for me, which meant I could try working from real life without worrying about her seeing me looking at her. As far as sketches go (SARAH) I know that its not the hottest, but its all about accountability and putting it up here!.

Parrot Costume 2

He got a hood last night! Boy helped cut and sew (yes, I was scared for my fingers the whole time). Pay no attention to the mess in the background/foreground...except my nifty new sewing hutch, the machine goes inside those doors when I actually put it away.

Parrot Costume

Boy decided two months ago that he wanted to be a parrot for Purim. Two weeks to go and I'm finally sitting down to do it. I did go out and buy the fabric right away, that counts right? The pic bellow is the back, got the blue "feathers" and a little yellow done tonight. More yellow and a little orange to be added tomorrow night (or some other night within the next week--I hope).
This costume qualifies as recycled, the red is a fleece poncho. The size and shape were awesome for this project, but it has a really big turtleneck on it. I'm thinking about carefully removing the neck and turning it into a hood. I think there is enough fabric to do it, just working out the how (especially the carefully removing part).