I have not felt like working on Edith at all, but on Tuesday I had a major freak out when I realized it was only 3 weeks til we leave for the con. AHHH! So much left to do!!
So I started jumping into the other stuff I needed to make for the trip, but that would be quicker.
Last weekend I bought some new fabric to make a new Luke Tatooine tunic for Kevin. Super nice fabric, can’t remember what it was exactly but it had a beautiful drape to it. Much better than the cheap quilting cotton I used in 06 for his first version! At first I was going to try to make this without a pattern, but then I was like, nah man and pulled out the old Simplicity Jedi pattern. I used this for dad’s Qui-Gon costume back in 05, so already having cut pattern pieces would just go faster. Unfortunately I discovered this:
What the flipping flip…
I have no idea what happened to that piece. How in the world does it look like something chewed it up?? Thankfully there was enough of it left that was able to still use it… somehow.
It was a quick project, started it and mostly finished it last night. I wanted to try to get it as done as possible while Kevin was with us (he goes home today). While trying it on him at one point I realized it kinda made him resemble someone else…
The dude abides.
Anyway, while I threw this together quickly, it’s so so so much better than his old tunic. I still need to press it and finish the interior seams but it’s wearable for now:
I didn’t feel like digging out his belt so ta-da, tape measure belt!
For reference, his old tunic:
I have no idea what happened to his old belt, he’s been using dad’s Qui-Gon belt the last few times he’s worn it, which isn’t right. Chase is in charge of figuring that out, though.
So I am finally caving into the temptation and doing a Disneybounding costume. Disneybound costume? Disneybound outfit? I don’t know what the right terminology is. I’m old. Anyway. When we first planned this trip I was like ah yeah we can go to Star Wars weekends! And then they announced no more star wars weekends. Then I was like ah yeh Memorial Day, they’ll do the 24 hour event where you can wear costumes and Kev and I can wear Luke and Leia, that’d be so neat! And then no 24 hour event (AND stricter costume regulations.) So then I decided, well, we’ll just Disneybound as Luke and Leia.
Buuuuut everything I came up with for a Luke costume for Kevin either looked like generic frat boy or cult member. Or they were going to be dark/hot (didn’t want him wearing all dark colors for a jedi Luke look in the sun all day). So Kevin’s Luke Disneybound is just going to be an X-Wing pilot t-shirt. He’ll enjoy it all the same.
I am moving forward with mine, though! I designed a fabric on spoonflower for my shirt – I have one panel already here that I got for testing it out, just waiting on the second panel and extra fabric to arrive now. I wanted to make something similar to this blousey tank top I already had:
That shirt has a imprinted symbols down the front, and I kinda mimicked that with my fabric I designed on spoonflower. I was going to wear grey shorts, but then I found some white shorts I liked so I got those, and I’ve got a silver belt I’ll be wearing with them (I think I’m wearing it in the photo above — yes, yes i am)
I got some simple white canvas shoes last weekend – not like keds (I don’t like keds) or converse (I don’t think I could last all day in converse), but they are similar to boat shoes I guess? And I bought a rebel necklace on etsy.
And thennnnnn… I was like, I’m going to be wearing all white. In a Disney park. All day. While eating at a breakfast buffet, and eating dole whips and mickey bars and everything… I need something to cover up with. I really wanted something like the Captain America dolman shrug I got from WeLoveFine at Dragon Con last year, but I didn’t want to spend that much on buying one of their Star Wars ones — that, and the two Star Wars ones didn’t really go with what I was doing. So I got some fabric last weekend and made one based on the Cap one.
The fabric I got was a light grey knit with silver metallic stripes running through. The basic shape of the shrug was really easy to duplicate, and I finished the whole thing in just about an hour:
(Ignore the video-gaming-playing husband behind me)
For the back, I found a big version of the rebel symbol online, printed it out and used it as a pattern to cut some leftover red heavy spandex (from Captain Marvel!). Then I hand-stitched it into place:
All that’s left is to machine-sew it down — just need to find time to switch out my machine’s threads to do it.
YAY! Making things!
Tonight and almost all day tomorrow will be sewing like the wind!
(why don’t I have a gif of that….)