Daniel Boone

For about 6 months now Weston has loved everything Daniel Boone. He even used 20 dollars of his own money to buy the complete Season 1 with Fess Parker. It also happens to be in black and white, but Weston doesn't seem to mind :) Of course he HAD to dress up as Daniel Boone for Halloween.
After checking out frontiersmen costumes online I decided to try to make one using a brown turtleneck, a glue gun and some fringe. Little did I know that just the fringe was over $6 per yard and it would have taken several yards to do it right! Scratch that idea. On our way out of the store I noticed some brown suede-ish fabric that already had the fringe on the edge. I bought one yard and figured I could come up with something.
The shirt turned out surprisingly well considering I didn't have a pattern and I'm definitely not a perfectionist. I did figure out you can't just start sewing the sleeve on and go all the way around one direction. The sleeve ended up halfway down the back. I also did a fair amount of ripping out and re-sewing. It probably would have been smarter to buy a costume online, but Weston is thrilled and I gained some confidence to jump in and try new things. You never know....they might just turn out!