{"id":3770,"date":"2011-10-25T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2011-10-28T15:18:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T19:18:13","slug":"the-making-of-a-mummy-costume-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2011\/10\/the-making-of-a-mummy-costume-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Making of a Mummy Costume (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carolyn wants to be a mummy for Halloween.\u00a0 However, we went looking for a mummy costume and were really disappointed in what we saw.\u00a0 They either looked goofy or, at one store we visited we were horrified to find an inappropriately &#8220;adult&#8221; mummy targeted towards 4-10 year old girls.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 A mummy with a bare midriff.\u00a0 Not. Happening.<\/p>\n<p>DIY mummy it is, then.\u00a0 I drew some inspiration from <a href=\"http:\/\/networkedblogs.com\/o7VPI\">this most amazing mummy costume tutorial<\/a>, but I had already started by the time I found it so it&#8217;s probably not going to be nearly as awesome as that one is!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3771\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3771\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111025_mummy_begins1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3771\" title=\"20111025_mummy_begins1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111025_mummy_begins1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111025_mummy_begins1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111025_mummy_begins1.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Future mummy costume here...just use your imagination!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That&#8217;s a set of $10 long underwear (a size or two big to fit over street clothes) and 2 yards of muslin (really nice muslin bought at a quilt shop, so another $10 &#8211; a bit of a splurge).\u00a0 A sheet would have worked as well, but I don&#8217;t have any unused white sheets at the moment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3772\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3772\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111025_mummy_begins2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3772\" title=\"20111025_mummy_begins2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111025_mummy_begins2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111025_mummy_begins2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111025_mummy_begins2.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mmmm....a pot of tea and muslin. That should hit the spot!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I used a dozen tea bags, some hot water, and my spaghetti pot to soak the muslin for a half hour or so.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t have things looking too new, obviously!\u00a0 Then I squeezed out the fabric, ran it under some water until it ran mostly clear, and dried it for a bit.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3773\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3773\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111025_mummy_begins3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3773\" title=\"20111025_mummy_begins3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111025_mummy_begins3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111025_mummy_begins3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111025_mummy_begins3.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pile of wrinkly bandages. Now the real work begins!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I cut little snips into the fabric all along the selvedge edge, a couple of inches apart.\u00a0 (I didn&#8217;t measure, just tried to make it look about bandage width.)\u00a0 And then the easy and very satisfying bit: riiiiiiip!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3774\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3774\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111025_mummy_begins4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3774\" title=\"20111025_mummy_begins4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111025_mummy_begins4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111025_mummy_begins4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111025_mummy_begins4.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mummy begins to emerge...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You could probably hot-glue the strips on, but I decided it would be faster to just set my sewing machine to a long-ish stitch length and stitch them on.\u00a0 The first strip I sewed on had to be picked off &#8211; I forgot to stretch the knit a bit so that it would have some give after the muslin was stitched on.\u00a0 But then I was merrily on my way.\u00a0 So far, so good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolyn wants to be a mummy for Halloween.\u00a0 However, we went looking for a mummy costume and were really disappointed in what we saw.\u00a0 They either looked goofy or, at one store we visited we were horrified to find an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[81,82],"class_list":["post-3770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing","tag-halloween","tag-mummy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3776,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions\/3776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}