The boy is off to SakuraCon with his Shinigami-sama costume and I think it looks pretty good. The last time I made him a costume he came home and told me someone at the conference had offered him $400 for it. It was essentially a high-plains drifter coat made in red brushed cotton. I groaned. So before he left today he said if he's offered $400 he's going to sell it. I'm pretty sure we put $150 into the thing, maybe a bit more. And countless hours. But it was worth it.
My son learned to use a sewing machine and a needle and thread with pretty good results. He's promised to help me clean up the sewing room once he gets back. Right now it's a mess of black fabric swatches and bits of foam floating amid strings of Wonder Under and freezer paper.
If it wasn't such a macabre character I might make him a quilt with Shinigami on it. Maybe I will anyway. If it was just flat and not needing to fit a human body the figure would be pretty easy to make. Hmmmmmm...... I do have a lot of black left over......
Sunny