A lot of thoughts, discussions, and purchases this weekend. Here's a breakdown of everything I have going on. 1. Meg - still sewing pleats. Good grief. I took my dress, my pins, needle & thread, scissors and my ironing board and dressform to my grandma's this weekend. I got out of my car and warned her, "You're going to think I'm crazy when you see all that I've brought," and she ...
*looks at my costume to-do list for the next 3 1/2 months*
Today's question is... How do you pick out a pattern to use for a project? What pattern did you use for this costume? I get a lot of people asking me what patterns I use for projects - and I try to mention it on my build pages, and I have a whole pattern index of my collection over on my pinterest! The thing is, I can count on one ...
Last night I pulled out my Meg wig stuff and started playing with it to get ideas. Just slapped together to see how everything is looking. I need to sew my wefts into the wig cap before I actually do anything - the wig I got wasn't made for up-dos, so I need to add some extra hair to cover up the places that aren't working. Then I'm going to ...
First off, many thanks to my husband who has been dealing with Joann Fabrics for me trying to hunt down more of this fabric. Secondly, a lot of this post is just me venting frustration. First off, why would you ever manufacture a fabric only 45" wide. This needs to stop. The shortest should be 60". So, to recap, I found a decently good fabric for my Anne costume at Joann in ...
Ever so vaguely crazy. I can knock the basic dress out in a day or two. But I want to bead/embroider the whole thing. Will I manage this before Dragoncon while also doing my other projects? Stay tuned to find out.
I've been entranced by WWII uniforms ever since I tried my grandfather's Air Force uniform jacket on several, several years ago. The construction of it was just so beautiful. So, I thought this would be fun to do. I've got a wig picked out. And I've been hunting fabric. The problem with the fabric, though, is cost. I found something very nice but it was going to be way way ...
So, I decided instead of Marie Antoinette, I'd do Anne Boleyn. A few reasons: 1. Marie Antoinette would be a rehash of the one I made in 2011. I wanted to make a dress I dreamt about - and it was basically the same thing as the blue one, just a different colour scheme. Same wig, too. I still want to do it one day, but not this year. 2. Anne Boleyn I ...
I've got to get a better photo of it to post, but for now, Chase got me this for an anniversary present: It's me in my Belle ballgown, as drawn by our friend Jon Wollack! I'm really excited to have a piece of his artwork. I can't wait to get this up on the wall in my sewing room - so now I've got two things I gotta get framed! ...
I checked the weather last week and this weekend was supposed to be fine, but we woke up Sunday morning to a very overcast sky and impending thunderstorms. I got dressed and we tried to get down to the location before the bottom fell out, but by the time we got there it was already raining pretty good. There was no waiting on it to pass either - it stormed ...