dragoncon2011
Below you’ll find my blog posts and photos about our tenth trip to Dragoncon in 2011. This includes planning, costume construction, photos and trip reports. For this year my new costumes were Marie Antoinette, Donna Noble, Valkyrie, Shi'ar Rogue, Emma Frost, Ms Marvel and Lady Blackhawk, so construction posts for those costumes are included.
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Marie Antoinette wig Progress
So here’s some more on the Antoinette wig saga. In my last update post, I posted a pic of it and said I wasn’t happy, ripped it all apart and cut down the foam insert. Honestly, besides feeling it was a tad taller than I wanted, I’d also gotten the wig cap too small. It was hard to fit on…
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Sneak Peeks: Lady Blackhawk, Donna Noble, etc
Here’s a few pics I took of stuff I was working on fri-sat. Trying on Lady Blackhawk. My hat is huge! LOL. I will always have that problem because I have a tiny head. Hippolyta embroidery. It’s not perfect, but it’s going to show up a LOT better than the original drawn on lines. It’s a pain and taking longer…
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im in love… Marie Antoinette finished
Some “real” pics finally. They still just don’t show how sparkley it is. All I have left to do is finish attaching the hook & eyes along the front (finished them once, but switching them out to black), and to finish my wig, which is giving me fits right now because I’m not sure what exactly I want to do…
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Lady Blackhawk is done!
It’s a crappy pic, sorry LOL I got my patch blanks earlier this week, and got the hawks embroidered last night, and sewed the patches on this morning. I’m pretty pleased with how they turned out; they’re not perfect, especially since I realised about halfway through the first one that I’d reversed the symbol when I drew on my guide.…
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Making my Marie Antoinette Wig
(I’ve edited this post since finishing the wig so I have the full build process in one post!) So here’s my fumbling around with wigs. I really hate styling wigs – I wish I’d had it in my budget to buy a really fantastic custom piece off etsy or something, but, well, obviously I didn’t! So here’s what I did.…
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some pics
Finally uploaded some pics from my phone. Here’s the dress as it was last week, I think it was: I had the lower sleeves and stomacher just pinned on there – I’ve since gotten them sewn in and, well, it’s pretty much done. Once I try it on I might find something that needs to be tweaked, so I’m calling…
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Lots of Updates, Still no Pics
I need to break out the real camera and take some pics to post. My blog is awful bland with no pics. I’ve been working on “Pink Barf” – got the suit picked apart and cut the legs off. Got new front pieces cut. I had to go back and re-dye them because the chunk of leftover material I dyed…
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Rogue Pink Suit & Emma Frost Updates
This post isn’t going to be very interesting, because it’s about 2 of my surprise costumes. We’ll refer to them as “Pink Barf” and “Fur Monster.” I started on “Pink Barf” about two weeks ago and initially made great progress. I didn’t care for the shade of pink of my fabric though, even though it’s what i picked out from…
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that moment…
that moment you get your costume to the point of finally trying it on. isn’t it fantastic? Sorry I haven’t posted in a few days; been busy at work and busy sewing every night. Over the week I’ve finished the beading on Marie (although I have a handful of beads leftover I may go back and toss on), finished the…
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FOOT! Follow Up
Went in for my post-op appt this morning. He took all the bandages off (YAY! Felt amazing to finally get all that stuff off.) and looked it over. Said it looked great, I don’t need to come back in. Just put peroxide on it everyday, keep a bandaid on it, keep taking my medicine. He said it should be back…
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i can’t concentrate
being on the pain meds makes me feel slightly drunk and drowsy, and also all over the place, I can’t concentrate on anything. which results in this: honestly she wouldn’t stay out of my way while I was working on it yesterday (see? wouldn’t get out of my lap.) So I think she must think it’s for her! I’ve gotten…
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FOOT! Updates and beading
I dozed off an on yesterday, got the beading on my dress mostly finished (want to go back and add a few more to the top, but technically it’s finished), and did something wasn’t supposed to do: unwrapped the bandages on my foot. They told me not to, that the doctor wanted to do that at my follow up tomorrow…
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Marie Antoinette Progress Updates
Ash and I went shopping sat morning – then I spent all sat afternoon and most of sunday beading Marie. I can’t believe it but I’m over halfway done. on my schedule I thought I’d still be doing this well into August. After the beading I just need to finish the sleeves – I need to put together the other…
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So Many Choices
I can’t decide between 3 costumes for my last dcon costume. I’d been considering an alternate Scarlet Witch Costume, since I could reuse my boots, gloves and wig. That’s been my #1 choice for a while. Also thinking of doing a Shadowcat costume, the basic X-Men uniform suit. I’ve always liked the suit and could reuse it for other characters……
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Marie Antoinette progress pics
here’s the dress as of last night: And a couple of detail shots, The detail along the bottom: and the sleeves: None of that is done; I get to sew on all that trim tonight (its just pinned on) and I’ve got more work to do on the sleeves.
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FOOT!
Last night started making the blue trim for the dress. I like how it’s coming along. Today I had the doctor’s appointment. I hated to go but this was one instance where I wanted to be there and get this taken care of. It was really hurting this morning, to the point after I made it to the bathroom to…
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Marie Antoinette Progress
got a good bit of work done this weekend, mostly getting all the silver trim done. It’s all just pinned on here: And starting on the lower sleeves too, obviously. I started on my blue trim last night, but it’s taking a lot longer than the silver did. It’s hard to get a pin through the blue fabric, and my…
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huzzah! Rogue Shoes
So didn’t work on anything last night. went on a really lame quest to 3 different fabric stores in search of silver fabric that didn’t look cheap, so I wouldn’t have to order it online, and didn’t find a thing. Then cleaned the house. So for the next costume I’m about to start on, I needed some shoes to mod,…
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Marie Antoinette & K-9 Progress
posting updates without pics is useless, isn’t it? Hem is pinned, sleeves are in… but I think I may take the sleeves out (which is a pain, because they were awful to put in) and see if I can squeeze some extra space out of the shoulder hem. I feel like the bodice is sitting up too high, thus the…
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Marie Antoinette updates
Didn’t mess with the sleeves last night. Instead went through and replaced the non-matching ribbons on the inside of my hoops, put a hook and eye in on the waist, re-hemmed my petticoat (it was too long) and trimmed the netting. Pleated and hemmed the false front of the underskirt, finished the edge of the top of bodice and spent…
