the final frontier

So I know it probably doesn't look like I got a ton done this past week based on how few pics I have to post this week... but I did! It just wasn't on the exact things I wanted to work on LOL I ended up getting stuck on the Breha vinyl pretty much the whole week. Didn't start legitimately printing them until late Saturday. So in the meantime I ...

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its boots day

Last part of my Nadja costume arrives today - my boots! Yay! I could finish Nadja in a couple of hours at this point - 1. Finish and sew on sash 2. Sew on hook and eye at back 3. Sew hat onto the headband But I'm now knees-deep in Breha construction so it'll wait. My goal is to have Breha done in the next 2 weeks - and then spend the last week ...

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happy june

It's June which means we are now FULLY into Dragoncon mode. But first Kevin's room. I talked about the trim colour last week but I took this pic with the swatch of the colour and I SWEAR how are these the same? They do look closer to each other in non-direct light, but here in direct light in the window they are completely different. But I'm not freaking redoing it ...

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dragoncon ahoy

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 ...

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