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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

I got a lot done last night! Got the skirts attached to the bodice, got the eyelets put in, and got the sleeves put together. Tonight I’ll put the sleeves in, and then start working on the hem. I’ve got to figure out what I’m going to do on the stomacher so I can get it finished and get it…

Sorry I haven’t posted in a week! This week was all just working – got a good chunk of the sewing done on surprise costume #1. I need to sew some snaps on, and finish the boots, and get a wig ordered. Beyond that it’s pretty much Chase making parts. I took a break from Marie, because I just don’t…

everything just kinda pinned on. It’s nice to get to that moment where you can finally “see” it taking shape. still got a ton to do… taking a break from it tonight to finish up my donna belt, and do some work on enchantress.

Some Marie updates… (my panniers were riding a little low here) This was right after I got the petticoat pieces cut – I had just pinned it all on to see how it was going to look. It’s finished now, you can kinda see it in the next pic. This pic kinda sucks, I took it on my way out…

and then we’re back to our regularly scheduled programming. Decided to keep the too-dark fabric, which worked out well since they couldn’t exchange it for me. Redesigned the dress, and I like it better than my original design. So – yay! And the fabric is gorgeous, I love the colour – probably like it better than what i would have…

and it’s absolutely NOT what I wanted. I’m so freaking disappointed, I don’t know what to do. I guess it’s my own fault for not getting a fabric sample; but I’ve ordered from this store dozens of times and never had an issue with the picture online not looking like the real thing. This fabric is MUCH MUCH darker than…

I forgot to mention my hoop story yesterday when talking about my marie panniers. I bought some hooping last year for Lady Gaga that I intended to use for the hoops all around her. Week before dcon last year we decided they were too heavy which caused a lot of last minute drama. So I’ve had all this hooping getting…