where's wally and wenda

As promised, this is the first installment of my 'British Icons' fancy dress costume bonanza.

I'll start with the girls, who chose to be Wally and Wenda from the 'Where's Wally' books (or Waldo for my readers on the other side of the Atlantic!). 

I bought their stripey top and dress for next to nothing on ebay and knitted them both red and white bobble hats, based on this very simple pattern. 

I then used felt to stitch up a soft, cartoon style camera for Wenda and binoculars for Wally, with thick black cord for the neck straps and stuffed them with foam.

Rather than buy them plastic glasses to wear, I decided it would be much more fun to try and recreate Wally and Wenda's own cartoon eyes. I stitched up the eyes and glasses in black and white felt and glued them to cardboard, before mounting them on wooden skewers and gluing more felt to the back. I was really delighted with the result and the girls looked so funny!

 

They had such a lovely time at the party, dancing away at the disco and scoffing party food- they're now sound asleep, snoring away in their comfy beds.

Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend. I'll be back tomorrow with the second installment!