Han Solo vest

I was not just sewing for myself for this trip to WDW! My family gets involved in my Disney bounding ideas, and as we planned our wardrobe back in the spring, I had purchased a number of RTW garments for my daughter (the last time we went, back in 2016, I sewed princess dresses for her). It was harder to find things we liked for my son, so I decided to sew him a couple garments for this trip. On the first day, since we were going to Hollywood Studios, we all embraced our love of Star Wars.

this Magic Shot is so fun!

I was dressed in an R2D2 ‘bound, my daughter was ‘bounding Leia, and my son ‘bounded as Han Solo. We altered a pair of navy blue shorts he already had by adding strips of a red iron-on patch down the outer seamline. Over a plain white T-shirt, he wore a vest I sewed from black denim in my stash.

To make the vest, I used the (free) Melly Sews “Punk Vest” pattern with pockets that are from the Bookworm Button-up pattern (aff link). Since we knew it would be warm (and actually, this particular day had “feels-like” temperatures in the low 90s, so it really was hot and humid!), I chose to line the vest with some thin black cotton that was also in my stash.

This particular day was filled with amazing moments, and one of them was when my son got to interact (at a distance) with Chewbacca.

Periodically, Galaxy’s Edge/Star Wars characters come out onto a rooftop stage and wave to the crowd. My son and I had caught a glimpse of Chewbacca earlier but just missed him. A bit later, we were nearby and noticed that the characters were making another appearance. We were a little ways off, so we started moving forward. Chewie spotted him RIGHT away, even before we got fully into the open, and he pointed right at him and roared like he was seeing his old friend Han!  It was SO SO awesome.  Becker was waving and Chewie posed with his arms up in the air for photos behind Becker.  It was about as perfect as you could get without being able to go up and hug them.  Once again, major kudos to the Cast Members for really making these distanced interactions feel personal.