Woman Crochets Full Body Halloween Costumes For Her Kids (11 Pics)
Sometimes, when kids ring my doorbell trick-or-treating, I pretend I'm not home. Yes, yes, I know, I'm a horrible person. However, if it were Stephanie Pokorny's sons, I'd definitely open my door and spoil them with candy. You see, Stephanie's family is "absolutely obsessed" with Halloween, and she creates costumes for them that you won't see anywhere else. Seeing them in person would be an experience in its own.
"Each year, I freehand crochet full-body Halloween costumes with no actual crochet patterns for my children," she wrote on Bored Panda. "Sometimes these unique costumes are from classic '80s movies, other times from whatever movie or toy is popular at the time."
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"Once they choose their Halloween costume ideas, I begin on bringing them to life. They love to follow along with my progress, and each day they ask, 'Is it done yet?'"
Their family lives in a cold climate, so the warmth from the crochet is always a plus as they go around the neighborhood. "Each of the costumes for the kids takes between 25-40 hours, and I tend to work on them over the course of about two weeks. I have been crocheting since I was 16. I was taught by my Grandma, and these creative costumes are my passion."
Talking to Bored Panda, Stephanie also revealed where her passion for costume-making comes from. "My mother made my costumes for me as a child, and I remember being beyond excited to wear them. It brings me such joy to be able to do the same for my children!"
Crochet Garden Gnome Costume
Crochet Pennywise Costume
Crochet Pizza Costume
Wow, if she sells these they could go for hundreds!
Hundreds? She's nuts if the sells them for hundreds. These take serious time and creativity. I can't imagine how many hours go into them but I can't see them selling for less than 4 figures. If they were just $1,000 each, to earn $60k/yr she'd need to make 5 per month. Can you imagine producing more than one per week, every week all year long? That's an insane amount of work.
Plus, the yarn/thread is EXPENSIVE too!
She will probably make more money for less work by selling her pattern or running classes and of course having her own yarn store as well.
That's not a realistic amount, next to no one will be purchasing such costumes at such a high price, not to mention costumes are not something you buy all year long, which means she'd have an extremely unstable income on top of an extremely exclusive clientele
"Each of the costumes for kids takes between 25-40 hours, and I tend to work on them over the course of about two weeks."
Hundreds?? If I were her I would charge an arm, a leg and several vital organs. That's hundreds of hours and a lot of money spent on yarn and other items. Yarn is expensive my friend.
She's not for profit it's for love
From her website (it is in the intro above): To see all my patterns available, check here: https://www.ravelry.com/designers/stephanie-pokorny>
If I'm not mistaken crocheting is fairly time consuming, this is awesome!
It is time consuming and really easy to mess up if you don't know what you are doing. Crocheting skills level = Pro.
My friends grandma showed me a basic pattern ages ago. I made like three rows and quit haha
it is very hard, my grandmother taught me how to crochet and I love it so much but it takes a lot of time.
I'd be worried about the kid undergoing a growth spurt and being too big for the costume by the time it was finished.
It can happen, but usually people who crochet always check to see where they are with the work.
I love all of them, I also love how they keep the child not only comfortable but warm.
Yes! It was always disappointing as a kid when most of October would go by and it was still warm, still pretty warm, BAM last few days of October and it's cold and snowing and we had to go out with coats over our costumes. With this, you can bundle up and THEN put the costume on! No one can see what's under the costume and the kid is warm & still showing off the amazing outfit. I love it.
the year before my family moved to MN, they had a massive snowstorm Halloween night- like 5+ ft of snow. We just before halloween, and all the neighboors were telling us horror stories about it.
Those were such disappointing days - I remember those, too!
Wow, if she sells these they could go for hundreds!
Hundreds? She's nuts if the sells them for hundreds. These take serious time and creativity. I can't imagine how many hours go into them but I can't see them selling for less than 4 figures. If they were just $1,000 each, to earn $60k/yr she'd need to make 5 per month. Can you imagine producing more than one per week, every week all year long? That's an insane amount of work.
Plus, the yarn/thread is EXPENSIVE too!
She will probably make more money for less work by selling her pattern or running classes and of course having her own yarn store as well.
That's not a realistic amount, next to no one will be purchasing such costumes at such a high price, not to mention costumes are not something you buy all year long, which means she'd have an extremely unstable income on top of an extremely exclusive clientele
"Each of the costumes for kids takes between 25-40 hours, and I tend to work on them over the course of about two weeks."
Hundreds?? If I were her I would charge an arm, a leg and several vital organs. That's hundreds of hours and a lot of money spent on yarn and other items. Yarn is expensive my friend.
She's not for profit it's for love
From her website (it is in the intro above): To see all my patterns available, check here: https://www.ravelry.com/designers/stephanie-pokorny>
If I'm not mistaken crocheting is fairly time consuming, this is awesome!
It is time consuming and really easy to mess up if you don't know what you are doing. Crocheting skills level = Pro.
My friends grandma showed me a basic pattern ages ago. I made like three rows and quit haha
it is very hard, my grandmother taught me how to crochet and I love it so much but it takes a lot of time.
I'd be worried about the kid undergoing a growth spurt and being too big for the costume by the time it was finished.
It can happen, but usually people who crochet always check to see where they are with the work.
I love all of them, I also love how they keep the child not only comfortable but warm.
Yes! It was always disappointing as a kid when most of October would go by and it was still warm, still pretty warm, BAM last few days of October and it's cold and snowing and we had to go out with coats over our costumes. With this, you can bundle up and THEN put the costume on! No one can see what's under the costume and the kid is warm & still showing off the amazing outfit. I love it.
the year before my family moved to MN, they had a massive snowstorm Halloween night- like 5+ ft of snow. We just before halloween, and all the neighboors were telling us horror stories about it.
Those were such disappointing days - I remember those, too!