I never did come back with a picture of the wig because I forgot to take one. So I took one this morning. I need to brush the wig out really well. It has been manhandled a lot recently so I need to get it looking nice again. I'll probably rebraid the front, too, and I'm going to find some kind of ribbon or trim to glue around the base ...
Breaking today's post up into 2 posts because my car post got a little long. I got a decent amount of work done this weekend! First off, on Friday, I had the sudden realization that I had my dates for Memphis Comic Expo mixed up. I thought I had 2 weeks to finish my costume. Turns out it's NEXT weekend. Yikes! In all my years of going to cons I have NEVER ...
So, with all of the craziness of this week (I had to go pick jury duty dates yesterday morning. SO LOVELY after having my grandfather's funeral the day before. F jury duty.) I ended up making some decisions about my projects for this summer. I'm pretty sure both of the big projects are out the door. The Georgian dress is still on the edges of my mind, and if my ...
It's that time of year!! Time to look back at what I accomplished and what I... didn't accomplish. So last year, I said I was going to make... 1. Willow – Buffy the Vampire Slayer Nope. Even though this would have been easy I just never got to it. 2. Johanna’s Interview Dress – Catching Fire I DID THIS ONE! OMG. 3. She-Ra No :( 4. Donna Noble – Partners in Crime Well, I kinda did this. ...
UGH! Flickr changed their layout AGAIN and now I can't find everything I use. I hate flickr. Anyway. Didn't get a lot done last night since the girls were over, but I did draw out my guide for my Donna embroidery. (Last weekend I mostly did testing different threads and beads). This is the back side, my guide for doing the embroidery on the front. What I didn't realize while ...
So I finally started my embroidery last night. I drew up my patterns for the main front piece Wednesday night,and yesterday I transferred that to the back side of my fabric. I did a few test runs to see which thread I liked better (I had a non-metallic gold, and a metallic gold to choose from), and which bead size I liked better. Then I started on the front. ...
So last night I got all of this done Yes, that's right, I cut out four squares of black fabric and pinned them to my dressform. Man that was a lot of work. Actually I spent most of the evening researching the costume and gathering up my references into one folder, and then I went and cut out the fabric for it. I had a dress already shaped very similar, ...
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 ...
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.