The blister {Mister Blister} decided that he wanted to be Robin from Batman and Robin for Halloween this year. Although Halloween isn't that big here, it's still pretty fun for the kids to dress up, and this year is the first year that he was actually wanting to dress up as something, and specifically, he wanted to be Robin.

I googled a bit, and had a look at a few different versions of costumes for Robin before deciding how I was going to do it.

I went to spotlight and bought some felt. I bought roughly half a metre of the red for his vest, and about a metre of yellow for the cape, though I didn't use it all.

As I sat down to make it, I decided that I wasn't going to use my sewing machine for this project. I wanted it to be no sew. That way, even if you can't sew to save your life, you can still do this DIY. The felt is great for doing no sew.


Firstly, I got one of his t-shirts and folded the sleeves in so that I could trace around it on felt that has been folded in half, leaving an inch or so on either aide, and above the shoulders. This is so it can be folded over to join up.






 I then took the pieces and hot glued them together, starting with the shoulders. I then did the sides as well.



I then folded my yellow felt in half, and put the vest on top of it, tracing where the shoulders were, with the fold of the yellow running down the middle of the vest. I made a small curve between the inside shoulder mark and the fold, and then made a line, slightly angled, going down the length to make the cape.

I didn't measure how long the cape was, I just made it to a suitable size for L. It's roughly 50cm long though.


I attached velcro strips to the shoulders with hot glue, this is how the cape is removable.


I added the small embelishments, and then made a quick mask using the cardboard from a cereal box and then gluing some felt onto it, putting elastic too.


Pair it with some dark jeans, with green undies over top, and the same green t-shirt from the tracing, and you have an awesome Robin costume! I quickly made the gloves with triangles of green felt.

I glued down one side and then put a loop of elastic at the point so that it could slip over his finger and they would stay put.


What is your one going as for Halloween? What about you? My costume will be coming up.

Line all the layers up, making sure they are in the middle and even.

So, I was having a squizz through my photos, and realised I had shown you a photo and said I was going to do a post about it, but I haven't yet... so here it is now.

I had a frame sitting around for ages that I was planning on doing something with, and then I decided that a memo/pin board was the best option. I always have little notes lying around that I need to put somewhere, if this hanging in my bedroom or craft room, it is more likely I will revisit those notes!

I had already painted the frame an awesome blue colour {It's a resene paint in the kids range, not sure of the name at this point in time} with a whitewash on top.

{finished product}

I did this project with my hot glue gun! I would have used a staple gun or such but don't have one, and the thought didn't even cross my mind to just use an ordinary stapler. Anyway, I started in the middle, and went around pulling tight and letting the glue dry {you can see the lines of glue in these photos} I put the fabric on top of some stuffing to give it a bit of puff because it looked a bit better like that.

I then got my ric-rac {I was going to use elastic, but thought the ric-rac looked cool} and glued it down, I then put a small piece of fabric on top, to help it stick a bit better.

This was a really quick and easy project to do, and took only half an hour through nap time. Now I need to actually put it on the wall! I'm thinking of buying some of those mini clothes pins to hang things on it with.