I found some inexpensive white fabric and basically made a dress by cutting a neck hole, adding a loose mock-turtle style collar and a hood (ala Princess Leia’s), and sewing some side seams. I got a motorcycle helmet for $5 because it had a broken face plate, which I spray painted white and then used some window black-out plastic for a new face shield.  I never did figure out how to use some el-wire to make her blue eyes.  It’s still (in 2015) on the “to do” list so that I can learn how it works.

Stephen was supposed to have a full “box” for Wall-E, but both of us kept getting distracted and I just couldn’t figure out how to make it work.  I later saw how to do it at a Halloween party, where someone was dressed as a wrapped present!

I had made a new costume for faire about a month earlier, because I wanted a dress even if it looked like 2 pieces.  I had about a yard of scrap fabric with a nice woven pattern and decided to use it for the bodice, and got some mid-weight twill in a complementary green for the skirt and bodice lining.  The bodice is a double-side-lacing arrangement, based on my old duct-tape pattern.  The skirt is pleated in to the front and back, and the openings at the side are filled with pockets.  The proportions are loosely based on one of the Margo Anderson patterns.  The chemise is from the Margo Anderson pattern set The Elizabethan Lady’s Wardrobe.