Guess what finally showed up today?!?! My fabric samples from 2 months ago. The envelope was obviously chomped up on one end so looks like it probably got pulled under a piece of machinery and probably got stuck. I've built the entire costume in the time it took USPS to find these and get them to me. I can finally put the denouement on my Swatch Watch 2017 post. Oh and guess ...
Didn't get a whole lot done last night. Well maybe kinda. Finished painting my shoes, got the lowest ruffle sewn on. Got the sequins sewn onto the straps and got the first line of sequins sewn across the top of the bodice. Had to handsew those so it took a little longer - I have to do one more line of them tonight. Also finish hand-sewing the top ruffle, and ...
OMG I am so tired. Friday I stopped and got more pink thread on my way home, and Friday night I finished sewing the sequins onto all my ruffles. Saturday we had errands to run and Ash came with us down to Joann. I found new TFA Leia underdress fabric. Then we went next door to Toys R Us and I found the Endor Leia Forces of Destiny Doll! OMG. ...
Guess who ruined more fabric with dye and is going to have to go buy more fabric again? I have no idea what happened. This was the weirdest dye experience I've ever had. I'd done tests on this fabric and they'd all turned out fine. I staggered the dyeing -- a few panels of the dress in for 10 minutes, then took those out to dry while I did another set ...
It was a really good work weekend! I got a lot done! Instead of going in order I'm going to go by project... Friday night started off with another round of dye on the TFA Leia linen. Saturday I decided to go one step darker and one step more saturated which really helped. I'm like, 90% happy with it so I let it dry all afternoon and then started putting it ...
Today has been weird. Early this morning somebody in one of the offices in our building was WAILING... came out in the hallway just sobbing. Crying went on for several minutes. It was unsettling and got my hackles up. Obviously something awful happened. I brought a change of clothes with me to work - because I cannot get myself up early enough to dress like an actual functioning human being, ...
I don't have a lot to post about this weekend. Sewing-wise, I was mostly working on a commission if I was in my sewing room and I don't have anything to show of that. I did finally get my linen cut and dyed -- Nice colour fresh out, but it dried much lighter -- but it's a good base so I'll do round 2 this week. Fingers crossed, I'm getting tired ...
I got my Misato pics uploaded! This is now officially the oldest costume we've shot on the white backdrop - beating out Lum by a couple of months. Like I said in the last post, I shot with my natural tone wig first. And then switched to the original purple wig. I decided to wear these black combat boots from the 90s instead of my original brown shoes. I never ...
Hi everybody! I'm back from my four day weekend. Did I do everything on that to-do list? HA. Of course not. The point of a to-do list is to look back and see everything you DIDN'T do. But I'll get to all that. As usual, let's start at the beginning... Friday night I picked up Kevin and we ran to the fabric store. I got the new linen for TFA ...
My to-do list for this (4 day!) weekend: Bespin Leia: -Repleat the front so the front embroidery shows better -take tunic apart, take up, shorten, sewing trim back on Pink thing: -Get bodice lining pieces cut -Get bodice basically put together -Make panniers -Get skirt panels put together -Start piecing out organza Mon Mothma: -Do embroidery floss through braid pieces -play with wig TFA Leia: -Buy new fabric -wash new fabric ...