It's that time of the year again... time to see what I accomplished this year, what I didn't get to, and what I did instead of doing the things I said I was going to do. So last year I said my goals for 2017 were: 1. Georgian Belle – as I said above, finish it up for Visioncon. Did I?! Not really. I redid the wig, twice - once for Visioncon, and ...
Wednesday night, I focused on getting the sleeve mock-up finished up: Pretty happy with the shape. Somewhere I have a bag of tulle I want to stuff them with but I didn't have the energy to look for it. I also got the trim along the neckline quickly sewn on, though last night I went back and tightened it up a little. Chase helped me get my stencil cut out ...
Last night Chase helped me boil a ton of water and put it in a bin (because I don't have a pot big enough to properly do the stove top method) so I could dye all of my fabric. The dye took pretty quick. I did leave it in for about 30 minutes, but there wasn't anymore colour change between 5 minutes and 30 minutes. Chase hung a line up on the back ...
So back to the saga of my Rapunzel's mom costume (ok I Just googled it and apparently the king and queen finally have names thanks to the upcoming cartoon series? King Frederic and Queen Arianna. Thank goodness, that's so much easier to say than "my Rapunzel's mom costume.") Friday night I went and dug out the pattern I wanted to use for it, to see if the scrap of fabric ...
Chase & I bought our Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party tickets yesterday... ya'll don't understand, I have wanted to go to this for AGES but with it falling right after Dragon Con every year, it was just a no-go, money-wise and vacation-time wise. Since we're severely cutting back on Dcon this year, we are finally going to be able to go !! We've known what costumes we've wanted to do ...