bespin leia
Below you’ll find my blog posts about my Princess Leia (Star Wars) "Bespin gown" costume, constructed in 2017. This costume has been in various stages of construction since 2006. I finally completed it in 2017 for Star Wars Celebration.
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Bespin Leia cost breakdown
So I posted a silly video on my tiktok yesterday about why I don’t do commissions and I used Bespin Leia as an example of an incredibly in-depth costume project that I’d NEVER EVER do on commission – I mean, I’m not gonna do anything on commission but in particular THAT ONE – mostly because 95% of people who ask…
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welcome to 43
I guess this means I’m entering year 25 of blogging. I started when I was 18, before the word “blogging” was even around. i called it “free talk” at the beginning. Anyway not much to post this week – again – except birthday stuff. Didn’t do much on my birthday. Chase had his dates off and thought my birthday wasn’t…
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and we’re back
This morning was the first time my feet HAVEN’T hurt going up and down the stairs in our house, and I’ve regained feeling in the little toe on my left foot. Unexplained bruise, scrape on my ankle, and spots of eyeliner i still can’t get off are still hanging around, along with a non-stop migraine I’ve had since before dragoncon.…
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YAY it’s done!
Despite that title, I’m starting with art today just because I have a bunch to untangle from last week. Including a HOUSE INTRUDER, a LOT OF SEWING, some MOVIES, and DOG-SITTING! Since last post I’ve only focused on knocking out Clone Wars stuff. Here’s what I kept calling “Loyalist Committee Lite” I totally just used the skirt embellishment from my…
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It’s not a big post, but it’s a good one
I’ve been down with a migraine since tuesday… which especially sucks because I’m working overtime this week so I can be off friday so my work days are extra long. I basically come home from work, eat, have a bath, and go to bed at like 9 because I’m so tired from the migraine. Hopefully it goes away today. Tuesday…
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2017 Year in Review
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…
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MCFC, ‘Tis the Season, a lost ID, lost power, and lost my mind
This weekend was nuts. But let’s ease into it with a picture of Luna. Friday was a normal Friday at work, just steadily busy, until around 2 it was like the world went mad and like 10 hectic problems developed at once. And I had to leave on time because I was on a tight schedule. I ended up leaving…
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dragoncon 2017
Uggggggggh I’m back at work today and feel like a zombie. Came back to a TON of stuff too so double Uggggggggh. BUT! It’s time for this year’s Dragon Con recap. So Chase had originally planned to be doing a scooter trip that weekend, so we were both going to be out of town – but Hurricane Harvey put a…
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in which I think about dragoncon
Didn’t get a whole lot done last night. Well maybe kinda. Finished painting my shoes, got the lowest ruffle sewn on. Got the sequins sewn onto the straps and got the first line of sequins sewn across the top of the bodice. Had to handsew those so it took a little longer – I have to do one more line…
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To-Do List
My to-do list for this (4 day!) weekend: Bespin Leia: -Repleat the front so the front embroidery shows better -take tunic apart, take up, shorten, sewing trim back on Pink thing: -Get bodice lining pieces cut -Get bodice basically put together -Make panniers -Get skirt panels put together -Start piecing out organza Mon Mothma: -Do embroidery floss through braid pieces…
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Photoshoot Stuff!! Part two
I got the rest of my photoshoot stuff uploaded over the weekend! First up is Bespin Leia. Some thoughts. I took the length up of the tunic a bit for the photoshoot but it created too much fabric at the waist/belt-line and looked sloppy 🙁 I think I just need to take the whole thing apart and go back to…
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a weird weekend
I made a to-do list friday, let’s see what I accomplished… Amidala: 1. Clean the dress. 2. Redye the lower petals. 3. Remake or fix current tiara. 4. Make a new hairpiece. Bespin Leia: 1. Shorten the tunic! 2. Fix my pleating. I guess half isn’t bad. Friday is when I got most of that done. I hand-washed the dress…
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a to-do list
I have a to-do list even though we’re on the wrong side of the convention, haha. But I have a few things I need to get done over this weekend — I’m doing an event in Amidala next weekend, so she needs some attention. And while I have it on we are going to do a white backdrop photoshoot, and…
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Trip Photos – Round 2
So I wrote the whole trip report out yesterday but of course I only had iphone photos. Today I have our photopass and Chase’s pics uploaded! So here’s a few. Kevin hadn’t met Mr and Mrs Easter Bunny, and we were able to pretty much walk right up and get a photo with them the first day. Honestly I probably…
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Home again
We’re home! And I’m sick with a sinus infection AGAIN. I think I’ve come home with a sinus infection from at least 4 of our Orlando trips in the last year. This one is a real bear, it came on Friday night so all day Saturday and Sunday my face HURT. But I’ll get to that later. Let’s start at…
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it is (almost) time
Half hour til I’m out of work for the next week yeeeeeeeeeees!!! Still got errands to run this weekend, and packing to do, and a little more sewing. Need to fix Kevin’s belt and I need to tighten up the yoke to the collar stitching. I realized my tunic is a little long and looked at trying to raise the…
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IT’S DONE!!
Last night around 8pm I put the last touches on Bespin Leia. It is officially DONE. There’s some stuff that’s not perfect. My chiffon ended up stretching during the embroidery especially on the two front panels, so the front hemmed edges want to be a little wavy. One side is better than the other. I may add weights to the…
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ahhhhhhhhhh
IT’S ALMOST DONE!!!! Ok so wow I haven’t posted in a week. Let me play catch up. I got the lining reattached to the embroidered piece. I pleated and repleated and rerepleated and rerereplealted and rerererepleated it all onto the yoke about 500 times. I got the trim sewn on the tunic Wednesday night. Friday I had the day off!…
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I just can’t do it!!
So, I finished Yoke #3 and it’s all right. It’s not greeeeeat but it’ll do. It’s not like I could try again, there’s no fabric left! After that photo I did take the collar off and inset it into the yoke so there’s no ugly seam sticking out between them. This resulted in a kinda ugly stitch line where it’s…
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I like typing in a subject for my post, waiting on the permalink to create the link with that subject… and seeing how many times I’ve used that subject before. I’ve apparently had 9 other posts also titled “blah” because this is “blah-10”. Today is very blah. Work is stressing me out. I just want to go to Disney already!…
