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Dye test
Dye tests on my Peggy Carter fabric:
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A few more Momocon pics
Here’s a few more pictures that I didn’t have uploaded yet when I posted last. Kevin’s absolutely epic take on the classic “help I’m falling down the Marriott” photo: I loooooooooove these photos of my Belldandy Chase took. I TRIED to be good and wear sandals with Belldandy (I’ve gotten in trouble with hotels for not wearing shoes with it).…
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Peggy Carter fabric
I picked up fabric for Peggy while in Atlanta this weekend! Color is not 100% – but it matches up pretty well, both in texture and weight, to the actual fabric of my grandfather’s WWII jacket, and since that’s my main inspiration, I’m very pleased with it. Will probably do a test dye sometime soon and see if I can…
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A bunch of questions
1: What was your first cosplay? Depends on how strict you want to get with the definition. I generally point to my Halloween costume of 1998, when I did a closet costume of Britan from my comic, SunDowner. If you say OCs don’t count, then my 1999 Halloween costume of Quistis which was my first foray into sewing. Or if…
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DRAGONCON COMETH
Now Momocon is out of the way I get to dig into Dragoncon stuff. On our way out of Atlanta, we stopped by Gail K Fabrics, and I found some fabric I’m happy with for Peggy Carter. I’m beyond myself excited to tackle Peggy and Anne Boleyn – so I’ll be jumping on those, first. I’ve really got to figure…
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Meg thoughts
or, How to make your Uncomfortable Costume Comfortable in Two Easy Steps I was pretty well pleased with Meg, at the end of the weekend. But, the first time I wore it on Saturday, I made a huge, rookie mistake. I should have known better. I put my Meg wig on and everything felt fine. The problem with the wig…
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Momocon Pics – Round 1
Here’s the pics from my camera and my phone, and a handful from Chase – haven’t gotten all of his uploaded yet. We had a fantastic time! It was definitely a different crowd than we’re used to at a convention, but Kevin was in Kevin Heaven. We were up before the sun on Friday and the trip in went really…
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FAQ Friday: Foam in Wigs
Today’s question is… When you say you “built the wig up with foam,” what do you mean? What kind of foam are you using? I just throw “foam” out there without really thinking about it, don’t I? The kind of foam I use can be found at Joann’s or Hancock, etc – it’s a thick block of foam meant for…
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One last Meg update
Last night I finally got to try everything on. Of course, I’m STILL tacking pleats…. but other than that the dress is done in that pic. I was testing out shoes so I was actually standing in one heeled shoe and one flat shoe LOL I was hoping the flat shoes looked best, but unfortunately, the more uncomfortable heeled sandals…
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Meg Wig
I dug in last night and finished it. Well, almost, I’m going to recurl a couple of pieces tonight, but I’m calling it quits otherwise. Also, check out the snazzy new wig-working space I have, LOL. I was tired of having to work in the kitchen – our kitchen counters were the only place in the house that my wig…
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More Meg
Wow two posts on the costume in one day. I went home for lunch and experimented with tacking the pleats down. I don’t care for the “pucker” it creates but it does keep the pleats closer to the body, so it may be a tradoff I can live with.
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Meg
I’ve got 3 more nights to work — I’ve got to finish the wig, and finish tacking down the pleats. And paint my medallions and get them attached. I’m tackling the wig tonight – I’m hoping to FINISH it tonight, fingers crossed. Then Tuesday and Wednesday, tacking pleats, washing and restyling my Belle wig, and fixing one thing on Belldandy.…
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Pleats
If I EVER say I want to do something with pleats EVER again, please slap me.
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MomoCon Plans!
I’ll be at Momocon weekend after next! I’ve never been before so I am excited! At the moment I’m planning on bringing Donna, Belldandy, Belle, and Meg (which is new! I’ve got progress in my blog…). Since I’ve never been I don’t know when I’ll wear what, exactly. I will hopefully wear each of those costumes at some point between…
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MEG! Progress. Finally.
So I finally feel like I make some headway on Meg. I finally figured out the pleats – but I stopped working on them and focused on other parts of the costume. I started working on the sashes: I cut the base out of some really nice lavender satin I had in my sash, then layered the chiffon on top.…
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Dragoncon 2014 Song
Every year I end up picking out a song that is my “dragoncon song” for the year. A song gets to be a “dragoncon song” by either being something I’ve played a lot over the summer while working on costumes, or just because it makes me think of dragoncon. I thought I’d put together a playlist of my dragoncon songs.…
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Meg
Argh. I feel like I’ve basically gotten nothing done last night…. I started sewing down pleats again last night after starting over…. and I got through four of them when I, again, decided I didn’t like how they looked. So I ripped them out. And this is officially the last time I can do that, the fabric is starting to…
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To-Do List
To-Do List: Meg: Finish pleats. I started over. Ugh. Be done with this by Saturday evening. Sew in wig wefts. Create foam base for ponytail, sew it in place. Sew in ponytails/ curl. Get the bangs sprayed up the way I want. <- finish wig by next sunday Insert interior support system for dress/attach straps <- finish by this sunday…
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New Belle Photos
A couple of weeks ago, I had planned to do an outdoor location photoshoot with Chasing Photography of my new Belle ballgown. Well, we got rained out. So, to make up for it, we did a white backdrop shoot of four of my Belle costumes! I’ve updated each of my portfolio pages with some of my favourites 🙂
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On talking smack
If you’re going to talk smack about someone’s costume, you need to at least be familiar with the thing you’re talking smack about. I made a Sana Kurata costume back in the day, based on the anime/manga “Kodocha.” It’s never been ALL that well-known here, but I very much enjoyed it, had fansubs of the later seasons that were never…
