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More Meg
Wow two posts on the costume in one day. I went home for lunch and experimented with tacking the pleats down. I don’t care for the “pucker” it creates but it does keep the pleats closer to the body, so it may be a tradoff I can live with.
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Meg
I’ve got 3 more nights to work — I’ve got to finish the wig, and finish tacking down the pleats. And paint my medallions and get them attached. I’m tackling the wig tonight – I’m hoping to FINISH it tonight, fingers crossed. Then Tuesday and Wednesday, tacking pleats, washing and restyling my Belle wig, and fixing one thing on Belldandy.…
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Hercules
My fav aspect of Disney’s Hercules has always been the character design. Here’s a great link of Gerald Scarfe’s awesome concept character designs for the movie.
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Pleats
If I EVER say I want to do something with pleats EVER again, please slap me.
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MomoCon Plans!
I’ll be at Momocon weekend after next! I’ve never been before so I am excited! At the moment I’m planning on bringing Donna, Belldandy, Belle, and Meg (which is new! I’ve got progress in my blog…). Since I’ve never been I don’t know when I’ll wear what, exactly. I will hopefully wear each of those costumes at some point between…
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MEG! Progress. Finally.
So I finally feel like I make some headway on Meg. I finally figured out the pleats – but I stopped working on them and focused on other parts of the costume. I started working on the sashes: I cut the base out of some really nice lavender satin I had in my sash, then layered the chiffon on top.…
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Dragoncon 2014 Song
Every year I end up picking out a song that is my “dragoncon song” for the year. A song gets to be a “dragoncon song” by either being something I’ve played a lot over the summer while working on costumes, or just because it makes me think of dragoncon. I thought I’d put together a playlist of my dragoncon songs.…
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Meg
Argh. I feel like I’ve basically gotten nothing done last night…. I started sewing down pleats again last night after starting over…. and I got through four of them when I, again, decided I didn’t like how they looked. So I ripped them out. And this is officially the last time I can do that, the fabric is starting to…
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To-Do List
To-Do List: Meg: Finish pleats. I started over. Ugh. Be done with this by Saturday evening. Sew in wig wefts. Create foam base for ponytail, sew it in place. Sew in ponytails/ curl. Get the bangs sprayed up the way I want. <- finish wig by next sunday Insert interior support system for dress/attach straps <- finish by this sunday…
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New Belle Photos
A couple of weeks ago, I had planned to do an outdoor location photoshoot with Chasing Photography of my new Belle ballgown. Well, we got rained out. So, to make up for it, we did a white backdrop shoot of four of my Belle costumes! I’ve updated each of my portfolio pages with some of my favourites 🙂
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On talking smack
If you’re going to talk smack about someone’s costume, you need to at least be familiar with the thing you’re talking smack about. I made a Sana Kurata costume back in the day, based on the anime/manga “Kodocha.” It’s never been ALL that well-known here, but I very much enjoyed it, had fansubs of the later seasons that were never…
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Round-up
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…
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My Costume List
*looks at my costume to-do list for the next 3 1/2 months*
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FAQ Friday: Finding a Pattern to use
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…
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Hair & Wigs
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…
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Adventures in Fabric
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…
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Donna – Unicorn and the Wasp Thoughts
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.
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Peggy Carter – Thoughts
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…
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Anne Boleyn – Thoughts
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…
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Anniversary stuff + Meg
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 –…
