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Round-up
A lot of thoughts, discussions, and purchases this weekend. Here’s a breakdown of everything I have going on. 1. Meg – still sewing pleats. Good grief. I took my dress, my pins, needle & thread, scissors and my ironing board and dressform to my grandma’s this weekend. I got out of my car and warned her, “You’re going to think…
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My Costume List
*looks at my costume to-do list for the next 3 1/2 months*
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FAQ Friday: Finding a Pattern to use
Today’s question is… How do you pick out a pattern to use for a project? What pattern did you use for this costume? I get a lot of people asking me what patterns I use for projects – and I try to mention it on my build pages, and I have a whole pattern index of my collection over on…
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Hair & Wigs
Last night I pulled out my Meg wig stuff and started playing with it to get ideas. Just slapped together to see how everything is looking. I need to sew my wefts into the wig cap before I actually do anything – the wig I got wasn’t made for up-dos, so I need to add some extra hair to cover…
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Adventures in Fabric
First off, many thanks to my husband who has been dealing with Joann Fabrics for me trying to hunt down more of this fabric. Secondly, a lot of this post is just me venting frustration. First off, why would you ever manufacture a fabric only 45″ wide. This needs to stop. The shortest should be 60″. So, to recap, I…
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Donna – Unicorn and the Wasp Thoughts
Ever so vaguely crazy. I can knock the basic dress out in a day or two. But I want to bead/embroider the whole thing. Will I manage this before Dragoncon while also doing my other projects? Stay tuned to find out.
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Peggy Carter – Thoughts
I’ve been entranced by WWII uniforms ever since I tried my grandfather’s Air Force uniform jacket on several, several years ago. The construction of it was just so beautiful. So, I thought this would be fun to do. I’ve got a wig picked out. And I’ve been hunting fabric. The problem with the fabric, though, is cost. I found something…
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Anne Boleyn – Thoughts
So, I decided instead of Marie Antoinette, I’d do Anne Boleyn. A few reasons: 1. Marie Antoinette would be a rehash of the one I made in 2011. I wanted to make a dress I dreamt about – and it was basically the same thing as the blue one, just a different colour scheme. Same wig, too. I still want…
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Anniversary stuff + Meg
I’ve got to get a better photo of it to post, but for now, Chase got me this for an anniversary present: It’s me in my Belle ballgown, as drawn by our friend Jon Wollack! I’m really excited to have a piece of his artwork. I can’t wait to get this up on the wall in my sewing room –…
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Belle photoshoot
I checked the weather last week and this weekend was supposed to be fine, but we woke up Sunday morning to a very overcast sky and impending thunderstorms. I got dressed and we tried to get down to the location before the bottom fell out, but by the time we got there it was already raining pretty good. There was…
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FAQ Friday: 120 Cosplay Tips
A few weeks ago I did a post on “tips for new cosplayers” – and I was asked if I had any others. So I thought, I’ll try to think of every tip I can, and as a result, here are my 120 Tips. 1. Do your research Find & save as many photos of the costumes you’d like to…
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Momocon thoughts
I still can’t completely decide what to take to Momocon. So thinking “outloud” here. I’m definitely taking Meg, since it’s new and I should have it done in the next couple of weeks. I don’t think I’ll have time to also finish Johanna. It’s was planned for Dragoncon anyhow so no big deal. I was planning on taking Belle –…
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Luke & Leia
Mooooooom how come Luke gets a lightsaber and I don’t??
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FAQ Friday: Dressforms
Today’s question is… What kind of dressform do you have? My dressform’s name is BooBooHead. I don’t know why, for some reason mom and I started calling her that when we first got her. But I’m guessing you probably didn’t want to know her name. She’s a Prym-Dritz My Double dressform. I got her in 2004. I like her ok…
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sewing vs sleeping
Last night we went out for my mum’s birthday, then I ran by the fabric store to pick up some seam tape. I was planning on working on my pleats, but Chase wasn’t feeling good, and I had the beginnings of a migraine, so we both ended up in bed and asleep by 8:30. wow. Had weird dreams all night…
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Old pics
So as I’m going through my old hard-drives and uploading new versions of my old pics, I’ve been coming across a LOT of stuff I’ve never uploaded before. So of course I’m uploading it just to have it available, though not really using it for anything. So, here’s my Quidditch uniform on my dressform, for some reason I never used…
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Updates
So, Saturday I got my base dress cut and sewn together: And the interior support cut out and pinned together. Got my chiffon dyed: And cut, and started playing with pleats: I stopped because I really don’t have a thread that matches very well, and if I’m going to be sewing the pleats down, I need it to match.
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MomoCon
Yeah! We just booked our hotel room for MomoCon in Atlanta! I’m super excited to visit a new (for me) con, in one of my fav cities. It was up in the air if we were going to go, but now it’s more than likely; so I’m entering panic mode in trying to finish up a couple of new things…
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FAQ Friday: Costumes I Never Did
Today’s question is… Are there any costumes you started but never finished? Oh yes. I actually made a post about this a while back on my blog, so I’ll just expound on that first list. Now, there’s plenty of costumes I planned on making and never did – too many to list (but I’ll touch on a few at the…
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Random costume thoughts
I was hoping to get a lot of sewing done this past weekend but hardly did anything. I couldn’t wrap my head around where I’d left off on Johanna. I cut out the gores for the skirt and that’s about it. So I’m hoping to jump back in this weekend. I’d like to get the main bulk of the main…
