This year's second Halloween costume

 Hello, everyone.

This year's Halloween fun for the little ones was a much shorter trick or treat experience than usual--though the three year old probably was ahead of the game with a short set of visits and then family dinner with the grands.

He wanted to be a flying dinosaur this year.

Using the Simplicity costume for bat wings and butterfly wings, adjusted for a wild guess that the bones of these critters probably showed from the front of the wing, and with safety dots added in the back. (Flying dinosaurs were probably road-colored as that would hide them from larger flying dinosaurs and prey they were trying to catch. At least, that's my theory and I'm sticking to it! 😊)The costume was built on a base of purchased tee and pants. They were in the exercise wear section at Target and are a little large for him, but he can wear them as play clothes for a while. Win!

The front, with tail draped over the hanger. (Tail just whipped up with a bit of low fill batting between two layers of the knit. Totally unnecessary tie strings--forgot the pants have elastic waste!) Wing folded back to show "bones" on one side. 

Base fabric for the set of wings was a suitably lizard-colored polyester knit. It stretched. But it was interfaced on both surfaces and was not completely impossible to work with. The bones were an applique. They were made from Kona cotton in a light gray. Heat n Bond Lite was used to stick them down to the front wing fabric, then a row of stitches was added to keep them there. (Being not at all confident that the Heat n Bond would stick well enough at a low enough temperature not to melt the main fabric, I went with the "belt and suspenders" theory of attachment.) I lengthened the back connecting panel and the inner edge of the wings, and used zebra-patterned fold-over elastic for the straps. Dispensed with fabric cover for the wrist loops and the straps, there was plenty going on already. And I ignored completely the idea in the instructions to hand close the wings after turning. (Come on, folks. You're kidding, right?) Instead I edge stitched around the wing with both stabilized the edge of the shape a bit and closed the hole. Much more satisfactory.

On the back, the safety dots. These are cut from one of the lovely reflective bits we had lying around to add to hiking poles and increase walker visibility on our hoped-for pilgrimage walk in Spain next year. (Via de la Plata, a fair amount of roadside walking seems to be on the way.) The sticker was stiff, but cut well enough with my paper scissors and stuck on nicely.