Super cute Elmo costume!!

My son saw a very furry and red Elmo costume in a magazine we received.  He immediately picked it out as what he wanted to be for Halloween.  I did some searching online to see if I could get it for a good price and I couldn't find a nice furry costume for under about $30.  With my husbands support I decided to try and make him one!  This was my first big sewing project using a real brown paper pattern.  All the materials for the jumpsuit including the pattern cost me about $23 after tons of coupons at JoAnns.  I already had all the yarn I needed for the hat. I spent about three hours making the jumpsuit from cutting the fabric to sewing it all together.  I just finished the hat last night and wanted to share :) 

I'll have a fun Halloween post later this week after we've gone trick-or-treating!  I've heard they are holding Halloween on the 28th in our town since Halloween weekend is a big football game.  I'm a bit bummed to not celebrate on Halloween, but the kids will not know the difference.  I'm not quite done with Halloween... I'm planning on making their treat bags too with some cute kiddy Halloween fabric I have on hand :)