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Not sure how he came up with the idea, but Otis wanted to be a dancing pickle for Halloween last fall. We brainstormed for a while, drew up some schematics, and here’s what we came up with.
The main part of the costume is a kind of sandwich board of foam batting. Here’s the basic shape, pinned for fitting:
Each of the two halves was traced onto a doubled up sheet of green fabric which was then cut out, sewn around the edges, and flipped inside out. Two ensure that the foam would stay in place, we sewed a couple vertical lines on each half. Bonus: they ended up looking like the natural ridges that run lengthwise on a pickle!
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As a final touch, some green paint to simulate the little warts on the pickle surface. (I just looked it up, they’re called stipples!)
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The two halves were then sewn together at the waist and shoulders, with enough room to leave in flexibility for dancin’!