marie antoinette
Below you’ll find my blog posts about my Marie Antoinette costume, constructed in 2011. This also includes the first TARDIS variation, also from 2011, and the second TARDIS variation, from 2014.
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Marie Antoinette wig progress
Last night was Project Runway night, so I worked on my embroidery a bit, so otherwise not a lot of pics to show. I did try on my Antoinette wig: It’s amazingly well balanced. Didn’t need a single bobbie pin to keep it on my head. Of course I’ll put some bobbie pins in when I wear it at dcon,…
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Marie Antoinette Progress, and Valkyrie stuff
less than 2 weeks now… The wig is done. I wanted to curl the leftover sections a bit more than they are, but everytime I tried on my test piece, the curling iron just straightened it! LOL I could have kept trying, probably, but decided to leave well enough alone. I’d like to add a few more pearls if…
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Wig Progress: Ms Kim is drunk
I’m finally happy with this thing! Here it is with the main wig sewn onto the base, starting to cover the base… I wanted the curls on top to be much less structured than the base look was… a little wilder, so they’re just lightly pinned in place, they’ll move around a bit. All that’s left is to curl the…
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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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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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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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I tried to sew with my feet and it didn’t work out so well
(recap: July 2nd I caught the side of my foot on a broken, bent sewing needle stuck in my carpet in my sewing room. 7/6 went to the dr and was put on antibiotics and got a tetanus shot.) So my foot got a ton better last week. I had finished the antibiotics Wednesday, and by Friday I was walking…
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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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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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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…
