Princess Leia – Star Wars (Medieval-inspired variation)

Made for: Dragon Con 2017

Background: I thought this would be a fun mash-up.

Journal Entries: Read more at my MedievalLeia tag

Patterns Used: McCalls’s M5155 (dress portion), Simplicity 9891 (cowl neck and sleeves).

So this costume was a little idea I’d gotten while looking through houppelande images for a different costume (that I still haven’t done). I thought it would be a quick, fun little project for Dragon Con. Not trying to be historically accurate or anything!

Dress: I used a white cotton/linen blend fabric from Dharma Trading that I really liked; it was really great to work with (though it wrinkles like crazy, as you can imagine)! I had the two above patterns in my stash, and the cowl neck from 9891 fit easily onto 5155 – so I was able to tape the pattern pieces together to cut out the whole piece in one go.

I do wish that I’d been able to get a little more width in the body of the dress, and a little more fullness/length in the sleeves, but I ran out of fabric! (Nothing but scraps left of the 10 yds I bought!). At the very least – it ended up being much longer than I expected, but I always love a good train so no problems for me there 🙂

For the fitted sleeves I added an outer layer of the white netting I’d bought for the bun covers, since I had enough leftover.

Headgear: I wanted to do a simple silver crown with a white veil attached at the back – I headed to the craft store to see if I could find something to use as a tiara base, and found a pack of 3 silver headbands. I joined these 3 together, sewing them to an interior headband to keep them steady in the back, and added some rectangular beads I had in my stash. I really like how it came out. The veil fabric was some I had leftover, I just hemmed the edges and then sewed it into place on the back of the crown.

The bun covers I made out of some white netting (with sequins!) – I used a dinner plate as a pattern to cut out the round shapes, then hemmed the edges and threaded some elastic through the channel left by the hem. Pretty quick and simple.

Etc: I bought this silver/white ribbon on etsy, and sewed it down to a scrap piece of belting so it would maintain its shape. It closes with a hook and eye at the back. Since I had so much of the ribbon leftover, I added some length draped down the back.

The necklace is the same necklace I used for my Disneybound Leia – I just put it on a different necklace and added some silver beads around it. I ended up using my “Ever After” shoes just because they’re sparkly and fun (and comfy).

Fabric! Front panels Front, back and sleeve Ribbon Belt

Nearly done Trim? Test run Necklace Netting

Crown/Veil Bun covers Belt? Sleeves


                       

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