Project: Worm Bum – Upholstering Insect Ends

“Project Finish My Halloween Costume Before Halloween” is moving along smoothly. Party prep is in full swing on this fine Halloweek. The decorations have been up for weeks, all we have to do is switch out some light bulbs for spoooky ones and set up the epic number of Jack-o-lantern candle holders I bought at Dollarama. Grocery shopping for various secret ingredients was done on Sunday and baking will commence on Thursday.

As for the Worm Bum, the costume has been fully assembled and now only needs several dozen layers of paint. I just realized that with my poor understanding of color theory, I neglected to buy yellow, but I’m going to see if I can make do without it.

After finishing the bottom armature, we started on the top piece. This came together quickly and efficiently, if I do say so myself:

Then there was the rather lengthy process of covering the entire thing, featuring many emergency trips to Fabric Land for more creepy synthetic batting. I have a poor understanding of math as well as a poor understanding of color theory:

At one point, Punky hopped right in. I think she thinks my Halloween costume is her new cat bed. Wrong you are, Punky! Although… maybe you can have it after Halloween. After all, what am I going to do with a massive worm bum.

We finished covering it with batting and Stark held it all together to test how it would look. Rather wormy, if I do say so myself.

Thus began the upholstery process. Side note: I have no idea how to spell “upholstery,” and every time I try, I spell it so badly that no spellchecker can even theorize as to what I meant. I end up having to Google my random spellings and hope that someone on the Internet will have also spelled it that badly and that someone else on the same page will have spelled it correctly. Considering the state of spelling on the Internet these days, this usually works. I find this whole process depressing, as I pride myself on my good spelling and decent grammar, but right now I can still see the search bar in the corner of Firefox and it is assaulting my eyes with my attempt to Google “apulster.” Gah. But I digress. Anyway, here is Stark being properly scared of my wormy bum.

And here I am taking the costume for a test drive. Still to be completed: Graboid arms. But, I think I am getting the scary face down, no?