Dead Famous - Part 1 (Rob bin Laden)

As posted about here, we had a 'Dead Famous' birthday party for Rob on  Saturday.

He'd come up with the idea while we were visiting my family in South Africa over Xmas, and had obsessively diligently been working on the playlist ever since. His playlists are amazing. Anyway, we sent out the FB invites to the usual suspects about 6 weeks before the day and then the mayhem started.

Rob, of course, had to dress as someone controversial. There are no 'normal' fancy dress costumes in my husband's repertoire (in fact, I think I'll do a post about that soon, as most if not all our fancy dress gigs have been thrifted/vintagey/handmade). So, his choice was either Jesus or Osama Bin Laden --- mostly because they both involved having a beard - which he had (until Monday - but that's another story) - and a simple costume.

LONG story short, he picked Osama. We decided to make the costume as simple as possible, so we found a white king-sized sheet in the local charity shop and he bought a US army jacket on eBay. Unfortunately, I had a bit of a glitch with my self-drafted tunic pattern ... well, not that pattern so much as the idiot who thought she'd found a piece of fabric big enough for the front collar facing without realising said piece of fabric was actually the tunic back. D'OH!!!! Several minutes of frenetic piecing & decorative top-stitching later, we ended up with quite a pretty (if basic) result. Huzzah!

Great big chunk of tunic back missing :(

Tunic kinda pieced back together
(I'll show you the close-up in Part 2!)

Just in case you were worried it didn't work out, here's a teaser ...

(Just in case you were worried it didn't work out, here's a teaser ...)
GRRRR. I'm well hard, me.

Yes, that was a liquid latex bullet hole. It kept moving around his forehead all night, a bit like Prince John's mole in Robin Hood: Men in Tights.