So, I know it’s been a couple weeks since Halloween, but our digital cameras pooped out on Halloween, so we weren’t able to fully document the Spider Baby & Mama Web. We did enjoy the Annual Ashland Halloween Parade, and heard many a comment about our Spider Duo Costumes.

The Spider: We embellished Martha’s Spider Costume. I crocheted a simple black hat, and put some tassels on (to tie under the neck, since the wee babe is keen on pulling off hats). Then we hot glued 8 big googlie eyes onto the hat.

The way the spiderbody (legs and poofy body) attached to the baby was also pretty awkward, so instead of the belt attachment, I safety pinned the legs (decreased them to 6, because 8 we’re way to much weight for the babe)  to a black hoodie. Wala, she could easily walk and carry the weight. With the hoodie she also stayed extra warm!

The Web: For this costume, we used my mom’s wedding dress (thanks mom!), as the skirt. My sister-in-law hand tied the web onto the dress (after safety pinning the main threads to the inside of the dress, which is the stage the dress was in when I took this picture), at the bottom of the bodice.

Once the web was all tied together, I added a black little cardigan and was off! When Halloween was over the dress was un-safetypinned and looked like a wedding dress again (since we didn’t use the glue as recommended by Martha). The web did get tangled a big, and since I’m a big klutz, I ripped the last bottom layer of webbing off, as I walked out the front door on the way to the parade!

DOH!

Here is us at the parade, I’m not sure if I mentioned, but we only had a film camera, and this is the only shot of us in our Spider Outfits! As you can see, Etta wouldn’t have been a spider long without those tassels!

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