Lake Dress and Rogue progress pics!

Padme Lake dress 3.0: The base dresses are put together, and dyed. Haven't hemmed or put the snap in at the top. Doing that today. I got the chiffon overlay cut out for Danielle's, and I've started edging that. Looks good so far... Tonight I'll cut my overlay fabric fabric out and start on it. I'm hoping to dye them on sunday. Rogue: Finished, except for a couple of little things: ...

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Rogue, Mustafar and Lake Padme updates!

I finished my Rogue straps, the boots and all the little straps that go around her wrists, upper arms and top of the boots! Whoohoo! All I have left to do on her is sew some velcro on the legs and top of the boots so the boots will freaking stay up. And get Chase to finish the center X part! I got my Mustafar Padme straps cut out, they ...

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Mustafar Padme brooches

Well this weekend was fairly productive. My Padme Mustafar brooches are done! Well, almost, we finished the sculpey part. They look good! I'm really happy with them! I left them with Chase, he's going to cast them in resin this week for me. Tonight going to do the straps, finally. I got new pants, since I ruined the other ones. I finally finished getting all the fabric needed for the ...

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Goals, and Vader progress

Goals for this weekend: Finish Padme Mustafar jewelry Get Vader sleeves done, cape pinned up in the right place so I can sew/hem them when I get back Get muslin of the outer drape for Padme lake dress finished. Fix Padme lake necklace, repaint it? Buy rest of material for padme lake dress Make the center section of Rogue's chest straps start padme lake jewelry pieces/jewel on the ...

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to-do list 7/5/06

Mustafar Padme: -Finish the straps -Bake the sculpey pieces -cast them -paint them -redye pants Vader: -Put the sleeves on the shirt -Do the satin edge on the bottom of the cape -put collar on shirt Rogue: -Make chest straps -Finish boots Padme lake: er everything! haha I did go pick up some cheap fabric today to mess around with, make a sort-of muslin for the outer part of the ...

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Rogue boots progress

My dress sold! Very exciting. I've only ever sold one of my costumes on ebay once before, and that didn't turn out well, so I'm glad this time has gone so smoothly (and that it went for more than my buy-it-now even was! whoohoo!) I'm still at the beginning stages of my Rogue boots. I decided that while I work on them, I'm going to take pics so I can ...

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Rogue and Vader updates

I got started on my Rogue gloves today, and my boots got here, yay :) And remember the drama with the broken mannequin? I got my replacement parts for her today! Got Chase's Vader shirt parts cut out today. I'm about to go start working on my Rogue boots...

Vader, Padme and Rogue updates

Got my Padme tunic finished - the collar looks good! I'll try to take pics this weekend. However dying the pants did not turn out good - they turned kinda yellowish. So back to the drawing board with that. Got Chase's Vader pants nearly finished, the elastic straps for his feet are partially put on, got the velcro put on in the front and the waistband hemmed. Tomorrow i'll get ...

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Fabric & SDCC 2006 Schedule

My main brooch for mustafar padme is almost done; I'm a bit stuck on doing the little flowers on the sculpey. Everytime I tried to just carve the shape it ends up not looking right. I got tired of thinking about it yesterday so I haven't looked at it since. I went to the fabric store friday - got my yellow spandex for Rogue. (Also finally got that order for ...

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To-Do List 6/21/06, plus Mustafar progress

To-Do List for Comic Con (for my own personal info) TK: attach belt boxes ab buttons try to get my voice amp in the helmet attach elastic permanently on that one spot that keeps coming undone Slave Leia: Fix part that came undone at free comic book day - make sure it's on there good fix busted boot piece - AGAIN! ANH Leia: Take up hem a little bit Rogue: ...

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