Despicable Me Family Costume

#1 comment by Chase November 17, 2011

I love it! The Minions are very cool and I love Gru and Vector! Some of the best Despicable Me costumes I have seen! Great Job!

#2 comment by Lindsay September 14, 2012

Very nice! are you interested in selling these?

#3 comment by Annie September 18, 2012

HEY, I am AMAZED at your work on the Vector costume. How did you find that orange track suit? I have three girls who will be the girls from the movie, my husband is Gru, and I will be Vector. I'd love your advice.

#4 comment by Megan September 19, 2012

Annie, I made the track suit, I bought orange sweats from walmart (they sell the orange right before halloween). I cut the top down the middle and added a white zipper, then fashioned the collar from and extra oranget-shirt I had that was the same color, and white fabric and very stiff interfacing. I used wonder-under to iron white bias tape to the sleeves and legs of the pants. I had to take the pants in some, taper them a little to give them a more fitted look like Vector. Honestly this costume took the least time out of all of them!

Lindsay, I don't know if I could sell them...make me an offer...

#5 comment by Mama2two September 24, 2012

How did you make the minion heads?

#6 comment by Megan September 27, 2012

To make the minion heads I used a round pop-up clothes hamper ans covered it with upholstery foam, I cut holes for the arms, and then I cut through the foam but not the hamper for the mouth so the boys could see through them. I covered it in yellow fleece that I stitched up the side and added a round top to. I added some stuffing to make the top of the head round. I used a foam ball that I cut a slice out of and then covered with white t shirt fabric for the eyes, I put a mason jar lid around it for the goggles.

#7 comment by Sandy Nichols October 9, 2012

What about the hair?? How is it standing up straight? What did you use for that?

#8 comment by Melissa October 9, 2012

Would u be willing to sell the minion heads? Or one of them at least? Please email me at gardners61811[at]gmail.com

#9 comment by jujuil October 13, 2012

Love your minion heads. I am going to try and duplicate? Anything tricky need to know? Thank you for sharing such a creative costume.

#10 comment by Ashleen October 23, 2012

how did you make your husbands nose??

#11 comment by Annie November 28, 2012

Megan, I just wanted to share with you our finished product. Thank you so much for your helpful ideas. I ended up making my Vector costume from scratch because I couldn't find an orange sweatsuit locally. Can i send it to your email?