I had an instagram story memory pop up yesterday that this time last year I said "dragoncon season is officially starting for me today." That made me feel really good because I have a huge head start this year compared to last. Rebels Leia is nearly done, and I've got a good chunk of Nadja done now too! So yeah I had a very fruitful sewing weekend. Chase was gone ...
Ok here it is! I didn't put these in my weekly post earlier today because it was already really long and I felt like these deserved their own dedicated post. Took these Sunday before last at my parents' house. Same place we shot Ewok Leia back in 2007 -- but for Ewok Leia we actually went into the woods and wasn't going to do that this time. The front yard's trees ...
I'm just going to start at the beginning of my photos from the last week and work my way through them. First up - my Nadja swatch arrived and looked good finally! I think I finally got the stripe sizing good. So I got my yardage ordered and hooray it was on sale - it was $50 cheaper than I had budgeted for. It's arriving tomorrow so fingers crossed it looks ...
It's dad's bday today! We went out for dinner Saturday night to a new korean bbq place. It was ok. Not like the one we had in NYC. I don't have a lot of costume progress to show this week. I'll chat about it at the end. New pin for the collection! A friend gave us some irises back in 2021 - this is the first year one has bloomed! Hooray! ...
Ok now that Huntsville is behind us, it's time to focus on Dragoncon and the costume progress I've made in the last week. So let's get back to Rebels Leia... Got the sleeves on, and a neckline facing added. Pants time! Decided to do the same thing I did with Wanda last year and use the lower half of a bodysuit pattern so there's no crotch seam. It fit really ...
Hey look I actually titled a blog post what it's actually about. Yeah a couple of days late with this. Wanted to gather up all the pics first including the ones from Chase's camera. So Thursday I get off work and go to take a nap and as I lay down, I get an idea. And I have to go do the idea right then and there. I WAS going ...
Now having (or close to having) 2 new Leia costumes in my repertoire, it's really galvanizing me get moving on the movie canon costumes I'm missing, plus some other EU outfits I want to do. But first let's go through the "probably no" list... (I don't say absolutely no anymore because I know better) 1. No Leia costumes from Kenobi I completely adore her. And I've seen some adult Leia cosplayers pull ...
Yall Picard season 3 is SO DANG GOOD I don't care if it's fan service. It the perfect kind of reunion nostalgia we should have gotten with the Star Wars sequel movies and now we can never have because Carrie is gone :( Anyway. last week I worked on the Nadja mock-up: I felt like the sleeve and upper bodice looked good, but the skirt wasn't quite there. Not the right silhouette. ...
I meant to tell yall about the weird dream I had the other day in yesterday's post, but I forgot. So it's a rare second post within a week from me. I have convention dreams pretty often but they are usually about Dragoncon. This was a rare non-dragoncon convention dream. So, I dreamt I was at the Huntsville Con we are going to a few weeks. For some reason I ...
So my white stretch suede for Rebels Leia came and I am... not enthused. It's actually a really beautiful fabric with a nice drape. Just waaaay thinner than I thought it would be. Just sticking it in the stash for something else in the future. I'm being soo picky about Rebels Leia fabric because I really haven't worn anything skintight like this in ages and I'm definitely not the shape ...