Well first, Donna progress: I've gotten quite a bit done on the lower half since my last update. The upper left side is almost done. I'm hoping that by the end of the week all of that section can be finished and I can focus on the lower "big triangle" bit. On the original, I'm like 99.9% certain all of this beading was done on organza and it's an outer layer ...
I finally finished the beading on the top (except for the upper band)! I got to move on to the lower half last night. I decided to pin it onto my dressform this morning for a better picture. My dressform is currently at the lowest measurements for getting things off and on easier, so she's a little (ok a lot) smaller than I am right now, causing the dress to ...
I allllllmost got the top finished last night. I probably won't be able to work on it much tonight (taking Kev out for his bday!) but hopefully can have it finished it up tomorrow (except for the upper band, of course - haven't really touched that) Luna discovered I have fun things in my work box. I throw empty spools to her to play with all the time and she ...
I'm alllllllllllmost done with the top section. I think if I really push tonight I could have it pretty much done. I need to finish doing the circles on the right (hate doing those), bead them, finish that one middle piece on the right, do the beading along the top edge and the rest of the large beads.
Monday I focused on getting the bottom half of the dress patterned out. Chase printed it for me Tuesday -- but we had to go help with moving some stuff at my grandma's that night, so by the time we got home i was too tired to do anything with it. So yesterday I got my quasi-light table set up again and got the pattern transferred over: It's not perfect; ...
Saw Jurassic World twice this weekend and now I am a velociraptor. Chase was out of town Friday and Saturday and I tried to get a lot done but I didn't really. I started on the circles underneath the points. Not crazy about how the beaded ones looked so I stopped beading them and just focused on getting the basic circle done - but they are a pain in the ...
Crap, I had a long-ass post written out about crazy stuff last night and Donna progress and wordpress just had an error when I went to post and didn't even save the draft. WTF :\ So, short version: 1. Bad migraine day yesterday 2. Cath came over and we made a bunch of capes for her summer camp 3. Chase locked himself out of his car 4. Cath called Triple A and they came and ...
Didn't get to do a lot on the Donna stuff over the weekend, so finally got to jump in again last night. I started doing some of the light purple points. Got all but one done on one side - didn't feel like rethreading because I wanted to go to bed LOL The interior of my new car gets HOT! The bug would get hot but the rubberized steering wheel ...
More beading progress from last night: I got the base of the "spikes" on either side done, the rest of them I'll do by hand. More general beading, too. Monkeyed around with the top line parts a little, too. FABRIC! My spandex order came! My Captain Marvel fabric! I'm actually doing it!!!!! I was going to do it 2 years ago, had the costume breakdown in my head and bookmarked fabric ...
Discovered rifftrax was on hulu last night so I got a good bit done. Unfortunately, those straight line stitches at the top I wanted to take out? Half-way through removing the first one I realized it was damaging the fabric. UGH! So I stopped and left what was there and just went over the top of it with my embroidery floss. It's not going to look great, but at this ...