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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a bit of everything
new magic bands! I’m Jyn, Chase is Cassian, Kevin is K2SO. I may wear this new one instead of my Haunted Mansion band… my Haunted Mansion band will always kinda be my “AP Year” magic band. Speaking of which, our APs officially expire tomorrow. Anyway, Kevin got to open the box with me, he’s excited! This is our first time…
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to-do
I finished my pants last night!!! Like I said last time I’d done the mock-up Saturday so I had a good idea of what I was doing, got the pieces cut out that night but then spent all day Sunday on the tunic. So when I got home from work yesterday I jumped into the pants… haha, jumped into the…
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you old sew-and-sew
So let’s see where did I leave off? Friday after work I went and got Kevin (he’s staying with us for about 2 weeks) and we went down to midtown to see dad’s St Patrick’s band play! After that went home and I worked on a mock-up for my collar but realized I really needed some plain cotton to get…
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it’s dooooooone
So I got home yesterday and instead of jumping into the last little bit of embroidery I needed to do, I decided I was mentally ready to dye my shoes and lining. Shoes were first and took to the dye beautifully: After they sat and dried for a while, I put them back in again during round 3 of dyeing…
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I’m almost there
Last night I got alllllllmost done with the big spires. I could’ve stayed up another half hour and finished the last one but I was tired, so I’ll finish it tonight. Then I have that one little yellow bit to finish, and then I have to figure out the shadow Xs in the upper spires — I didn’t trace them…
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I hate everything
I had Friday off so I worked solid Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Didn’t go anywhere. Just stopped to eat, sleep, bathe, find new thing to watch/listen to. The stupid weather being crazy made me have a migraine the ENTIRE TIME and it’s still on-going today. I’m ready to rip my head off. I’m so so so sick of embroidering. On…
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i can see the light at the end of the tunnel
…and hopefully it’s not a train. I worked pretty much non-stop on Bespin all weekend. From the time I got home Friday through around 10:30 last night. Stopped Saturday to run to the bookstore and dinner with my parents. And for a couple of naps. Again not a great photo of it, the lighting in our bedroom is awful and…
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go, and never darken my towels again
I’m breaking this up into sections so I don’t forget everything I need to talk about because my brain is fried. 1. Art I’ve done a few more in my little Star Wars project since last week. Here’s Kylo Ren: whatever Here’s Lando: meh not happy with how his clothes turned out. Heres Ahsoka: Pretty happy with her! I started…
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Bespin Leia stuff
So at this point I’m almost done with all of the yellow spires… I have to finish the upper center, and I’m probably going to redo the middle left upper spire too – it was the first one I did and it doesn’t look great. The bottom section with the flowers is totally done. Once I finish the spires all…
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My life is nothing but embroidery
I embroidered all weekend long. Like all day Friday non-stop while I had the day off. Found Unsolved Mysteries (the old Robert Stacks episodes!) on Amazon Prime and just dug in. All day Saturday, just stopped to run out to breakfast with my parents and a few errands (needed more embroidery floss). Sunday morning I took a break to start…
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Some art and some embroidery and a day off
I misspelled embroidery in the title and it was “broidery” which I think is the manly bro version of embroidery. So I finished a couple of other art things recently, in that Star Wars series I’ve been doing. First up is Luke I’m pretty happy with how he turned out. And then Han Pretty happy with this one, too. I…
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I am a train
Trying to think of another post title that’s not “monday again” or something and I typed the first thing that came to mind. “I am a train.” OK. (I’m pretty certain that’s due to having Arlo Guthrie’s “The City of New Orleans” stuck in my head the past couple of days thanks to it playing in the grocery store on…
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1 step forward, 3 steps back
So this morning I realized I did some of my Bespin Leia stuff in the wrong colour over the weekend. I dunno if I’ll be able to fix it since the needle leaves holes in the fabric. I guess I can try to unpick the wrong part (some of the interior petals within the flowers) and put the needle back…
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Sewing McSewerson
Originally I named this post “work work work” but then the permalink came up as “work-work-work-5” which means I’ve named 4 other posts at some time or another “work work work” so I changed it to Sewing McSewerson. Even though I didn’t actually do any sewing this weekend but I did a lot of embroidery so that counts. We stayed…
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she’s a total blam blam
We had to buy a new printer. Ours kicked the bucket. Boo! I’ve got a ton of stuff to print for VisionCon so we ordered a new one and it should arrive tomorrow. Yay. I got two nice 8×10 display portfolios for Christmas that I’m going to print off a lot of my costume photos to display on my table…
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the good & the bad
So Friday we got snow! Not a lot but it was enough to make driving a little scary. Unfortunately we didn’t get a snow day 🙁 I worked all day, Chase most of the day. So besides that I have two sets of costume updates – Bespin Leia (AKA the bad) and Dolores (AKA the good). Which do I start…
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Happy New Year!
Back at work and with my first migraine of 2017… UGH. In fact it was so bad that I typed that first sentence… sat here and stared at it, then just closed the window and saved it as a draft. Couldn’t wrap my head around actually typing out everything it was so bad. Went home for lunch, took some more…
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Rogue One
more like Rogue FUN! First up, finished up Glinda and got it sent off, it fit perfectly, yay! Now I REALLY need my dressform back from mom. I finally made a little bit of progress on Bespin Leia. I really wanted to transfer one of my patterns over to some junk fabric so I could see how the spacing was…
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Bespin Leia progress
I got my main fabric last week, and over the weekend I pulled it out and tested to see how it was going to look, opacity-wise. It’s going to be a little less see-through than I’d like if I want to not have so much of the red chiffon lining show through it, but it’ll work. I got my embroidery…
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some more art
Last night I sat down, turned on netflix, got my tablet plugged in, ready to finish up my Bespin embroidery design… but I opened and realized it was pretty much done. Hooray! So since I was already there, I did some rough sketchy drawings of Leia and Rey. Added some colour. I’d like to do some more like this. They…
