My youngest daughter announced that she’d decided she wanted to be a pirate with her friends for Halloween and I couldn’t be happier. It also happened to coordinate perfectly with the Peony’s tester call for Character Week (an annual tradition that works well timing-wise since Halloween/trick or treat isn’t such a big thing in Australia from my understanding, but we still get the pattern sales). We did the pirate thing years ago when my oldest was in preschool. Even my husband, who must be Australian at heart because he doesn’t dress up either, was willing to get in on it (just kidding—he’s 6’10” and doesn’t need costumes to draw extra attention to himself and also, they don’t fit him). Of course this meant I had to make him a custom ruffly shirt. It was totally worth it because we looked amazing of course. Since that was all before Juliet was born, I was happy to get to create a pirate costume for her. She wanted me to also make costumes for all of her neighborhood friends, but si