Chase & I bought our Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party tickets yesterday… ya’ll don’t understand, I have wanted to go to this for AGES but with it falling right after Dragon Con every year, it was just a no-go, money-wise and vacation-time wise. Since we’re severely cutting back on Dcon this year, we are finally going to be able to go !!
We’ve known what costumes we’ve wanted to do for a couple of years, too: Rapunzel’s parents (The King & Queen) from Tangled.
With the more recent costume restrictions, it put a little bit of a kink on our plans. Mine should be fairly easy to work around – I’m making it all one piece, zipper back, and make it shorter (one of their bans this year was hems on the ground). I plan to make it as long as I would normally want it, and then just hem it to the length I need for Disney – then afterwards, I can take the hem out and rehem to the length I wanted originally. Voila.
Chase’s is a little more difficult with the ban on “layered costumes” and “capes longer than waist length.” While the King doesn’t have a cape, I’m afraid a surcoat that goes to the knees may get called a cape, and it is definitely not layered. It’s a tunic/long shirt, surcoat and pants – I could dumb down the shirt and surcoat to all be one piece, but then if they don’t like the surcoat, he’s out the entire top half of his costume. I think I will make everything normally, and then we’ll just pack the surcoat in our bag for going through security perhaps. Fingers crossed. This is a lot of money and time going into a trip/costumes that if they don’t let us in over it, it’ll be pretty devastating for me.
But anyhow, since I don’t have anything else to sew on right now, I decided to start thinking about these. I don’t have any money budgeted towards fabric right now, so I dug through my stash to see if I had anything that might work for any of it. And that’s when I remembered this:
Back in 2006, I had enough purple fabric I’d bought for stuff and not used that I thought I’d make a purple version of Sleeping Beauty. This was as far as it ever got, and I knew it was still stuffed somewhere. I dug for it last night and found it! PLUS — I found what was left of the fabric the skirt had been cut out of! It’s not a lot, but hopefully between that, and what I need to cut off the hem (it has a long train), it’ll be enough for the bodice pieces and sleeves.
The lighting in my sewing room is making it look pink; the old photo above is a better idea of what the colour of it actually is.
And I’ll likely use the wrong side as opposed to the super shiny right side:
My plan is to take the skirt apart, flip it, put the panels back together (leaving an opening for whatever fabric I get for the faux underskirt), cut it off to the right length, and see what I have left for bodice and sleeves. Tomorrow I’m making a quick fabric store run (there is a pattern sale…) and I plan to pick up some polyester dye and see if I can edge the purple a little more towards the blue side of purple – right now the colour is definitely more a true “Rapunzel” dress than her mom’s dress tone. I tested some regular dye on it but of course it did not take on this shiny stuff. I think I’ll be able to shift the tone enough with some polyester dye — I’m excited to try RIT’s new polyester dye anyhow. (I like IDye Poly well enough, but I like having my dye come in bottles so I’m not wasting a whole package if I don’t need it).