darth vader
Below you’ll find my blog posts about the Darth Vader costume I made parts of (cape, suit, under cloak) for my husband in 2006.
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2023 Costume Wrap-Up
All rightie it’s that time of the year when we compare last year’s to-do list and see what I got done. At the end of 2022, here’s what I said I wanted to accomplish in 2023… 1. Finish Wedding Leia — YES! I did finish wedding Leia! 2. Rebels Leia — YES! I have been saying I was going to…
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Dragoncon 2023 – the costume recap
Ok so to keep my Dragoncon recap free of long paragraphs about costume minutiae, I decided to just make a separate post. 1. 18th Century Barbie Like I said in the main recap post, it was really nice to get to bring this costume back after it had such a disastrous debut at Dragoncon 2015. Literally I nearly had a…
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it’s dragoncon eve
I really don’t have much to post today, no real costume updates to mention. This past week has mostly just been slowly packing, and helping Chase finish up Vader: He finally got to try it all on last night. The only thing that didn’t work was his shinguards, so after this pic we replaced the strapping with something different that…
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i’ve achieved a state of clear
It feels really good to be almost done with 6 new costumes + soft parts for 2 costumes for Chase nearly a month before Dragoncon. Ok so I’m just gonna go through my pics in order. We finally made our own badge ribbons to hand out this year! Obviously I’ll be handing out the Space Bun Club ribbons LOL And…
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the truth is out there
Did I mention before I’m doing an X-Files rewatch? I was going to watch all of Voyager after finishing TOS, but instead I got sucked into one of my OG fandoms. Fond memories of scouring the 90s internet for X-Files fanfics… Oh and did I mention I’m doing a Scully costume for Dragoncon? LOL Just a cheap quick thing. Using…
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these violent delights
Let’s start out with Seven progress this week because looking back at my last post… dang I finished a lot since then! It didn’t feel like that much but it was. I did finish getting all of the HTV sewn on and FINALLY got to start sewing everything together. The back panel It took me a minute to remember how…
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a whole lotta nothing
I don’t have much of anything to post this week. Spent most of the last week trying to get the HTV for the Seven yoke to work. Basically everytime we’d do a test it’d come out backwards. Chase was definitely sending it mirrored – backwards. Then not mirrored – backwards. We’d finally get a test square that was right, go…
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Star Wars Summer Camp Pics
My cousin is the head of a summer camp and has for the couple of years had me come out for one of their theme weeks in costume (last year did Wonder Woman for Superhero week and Belle (and Stitch) for Princess week). This year she had Star Wars week, so last week I went up as Leia to talk…
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Big Scoop Troop Pics!
Big Scoop pics are up in my 2007 Trooping Gallery. I was so worn out after it, to the point we didn’t even get to go see the Simpsons movie last night like we had planned. 🙁 Here’s one pic of Chase.
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Heart of an Empire premiere
This weekend was an odd mix; not sure I enjoyed the trip, but all in all I’m glad I went, since the movie was good. We set out Friday as soon as Chase got home from work — after several stops (gas, dinner, snacks, stretching legs, changing drivers, etc — you’d think it was a 9 hour drive the way…
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2006 in review
At the beginning of the year I said I wanted to do: 1. Hoth Leia 2. Darth Vader 3. Padme’s Lake dress 4. Bespin Leia 5. Finish Yuuko 6. Padme’s Funeral Dress 7. Wonder Woman 8. The Bride 9. White Witch 10. Dorothy 11. ANH Leia 12. Team Zissou outfit So what did I finish? Hoth Leia? Yes, plus Bespin…
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Vader sneak peek!
Chase’s Vader is all done!! Here he is doing a fashion show for everybody.
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Lake Dress and Rogue progress pics!
Padme Lake dress 3.0: The base dresses are put together, and dyed. Haven’t hemmed or put the snap in at the top. Doing that today. I got the chiffon overlay cut out for Danielle’s, and I’ve started edging that. Looks good so far… Tonight I’ll cut my overlay fabric fabric out and start on it. I’m hoping to dye them…
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Mustafar Padme brooches
Well this weekend was fairly productive. My Padme Mustafar brooches are done! Well, almost, we finished the sculpey part. They look good! I’m really happy with them! I left them with Chase, he’s going to cast them in resin this week for me. Tonight going to do the straps, finally. I got new pants, since I ruined the other ones.…
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Goals, and Vader progress
Goals for this weekend: Finish Padme Mustafar jewelry Get Vader sleeves done, cape pinned up in the right place so I can sew/hem them when I get back Get muslin of the outer drape for Padme lake dress finished. Fix Padme lake necklace, repaint it? Buy rest of material for padme lake dress Make the center section of Rogue’s chest…
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to-do list 7/5/06
Mustafar Padme: -Finish the straps -Bake the sculpey pieces -cast them -paint them -redye pants Vader: -Put the sleeves on the shirt -Do the satin edge on the bottom of the cape -put collar on shirt Rogue: -Make chest straps -Finish boots Padme lake: er everything! haha I did go pick up some cheap fabric today to mess around with,…
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Rogue and Vader updates
I got started on my Rogue gloves today, and my boots got here, yay 🙂 And remember the drama with the broken mannequin? I got my replacement parts for her today! Got Chase’s Vader shirt parts cut out today. I’m about to go start working on my Rogue boots…
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Vader, Padme and Rogue updates
Got my Padme tunic finished – the collar looks good! I’ll try to take pics this weekend. However dying the pants did not turn out good – they turned kinda yellowish. So back to the drawing board with that. Got Chase’s Vader pants nearly finished, the elastic straps for his feet are partially put on, got the velcro put on…
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To-Do List 6/21/06, plus Mustafar progress
To-Do List for Comic Con (for my own personal info) TK: attach belt boxes ab buttons try to get my voice amp in the helmet attach elastic permanently on that one spot that keeps coming undone Slave Leia: Fix part that came undone at free comic book day – make sure it’s on there good fix busted boot piece –…
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SDCC 2006 Prep
Now that COSI is behind me, here’s what I need to focus on for Comic Con: Vader Chase has pretty much got everything done. The pants still need some tweaking, I need to hem his cape, and get the shirt started. The shirt won’t take long (at least I hope it won’t). Now that he has his shoulder armor I…
