![]() While it’s been mean, nasty and cantankerous for me before, like all machines, it’s always been good for Geoff. That was all very noble-minded, but I hadn’t factored in an outright rebellion by the sewing machine. Come hell or high water he was going to have his Vector suit! Geoff at the sewing machine. Whatever! This was not about ego and doing it all myself. This is what the hero’s journey is all about, isn’t it?! Along with the role of a parent! There are times you just have to front up and have a Nike moment. Lacking dressmaker’s chalk, Geoff used SR Flour to mark the fabric. Indeed, if it wasn’t for Mr 18’s wavering tone when he said he didn’t have a costume or a present and couldn’t go to the party, I’d never have been sewing any kind of costume! A dummy run measuring up the wings. Indeed, I even have a doctor’s certificate to prove it along with multiple scrapes on the car. There was another hitch which I’ve already alluded to… me!! I have very limited dressmaking experience along with zero spatial awareness. The beginning and might I add that clearing everything off the kitchen table was challenge in itself.īy now, you’re probably thinking we were on the homeward straight and we could just whiz the whole thing up on the machine in no time. You beauty! They stopped off there on the way to conference and Geoff returned home with white and orange fabric for the wing suit and white ribbon for the stripe. There was an orange prison jumpsuit for around $21.00 at our local Spotlight store. Then, just when I was close to conceding defeat, Google came to the rescue. Who wants to spend that on a one-off orange tracksuit? Besides, by now it was too late for anything to be posted in time. Moreover the cheapest orange tracksuit I could find online was $43.00. ![]() Orange was never the new black despite what the fashionistas preached a few years ago. After all most of us wouldn’t be seen dead in an orange tracksuit and doing the rounds of the charity shops confirmed that. Understandably this was a challenge in itself. ![]() The first step was to source an orange track suit. Yet as we’re found on previous occasions, we somehow rise to the occasion and exceed our meagre expectations in leaps and bounds. So, all of this takes us back to plucking a rabbit out of a hat when we’re not magicians. He was volunteering on sound for three days at the church conference. Added to this mix, was the fact he was totally unavailable to assist. Indeed in hindsight a classic quote from The Castle comes to mind: “Tell ‘im he’s dreamin'”. Yet with only three days to go his expectations were even more unrealistic. Not have the wings sewn on backwards or have it fall apart as soon as he arrived at the party. What’s more he had absolutely no doubt that Geoff and I could just pluck this suit out of thin air and not only make it for him, but do a decent job. Not on your life! He had a grand vision of being Vector with all the bells and whistles and almost being able to take flight in that wing suit. Of course he could’ve gone for an orange tracksuit and made do. Making this Vector costume posed an extremely steep learning curve. Moreover, despite over ten years as an active dance mum, I’ve never had to sew a costume and have only ever been asked to sew ribbons on shoes. Trouble began when we couldn’t buy a Vector costume and had to make it ourselves!! Panic stations!! While there are those parents who seemingly whip up book week costumes out of thin air year after year, that’s not us. ![]() While Mr 18’s villainous ambitions initially didn’t seem too lofty, complications soon escalated and there was no chance of pulling a rabbit out of a hat or a seamless transition like Clark Kent into Superman. He also wears a white helmet with an orange stripe down the centre, black rimmed glasses and has a rather nerdy bowl haircut. He’s decked out in an orange track suit and flies around in a wing suit, which could be described as a modern incantation of the traditional superhero cape. In case you haven’t heard of Vector, he’s the son of bank president Mr. Perkins and an aspiring supervillain voiced by Jason Segal. He looked amazing and was grinning from ear to ear like the Cheshire Cat. Although we’d almost busted a gut, I was thrilled. His friend was having a villain theme for her 18th birthday. Last night the prodigal son flew through the front door and in a miraculous flash, he was transformed into Vector from Despicable Me.
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