hippolyta
Below you’ll find my blog posts about my Queen Hippolyta (Wonder Woman) costume, constructed in 2011.
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Queen Aelsa… (not Elsa) Donna Noble, Fires of Pompeii. This needed a photoshoot since I redid the trim and fixed a few problems earlier this year – then I took no photos of it at Dragon Con. Queen Hippolyta, long overdue for a white backdrop shoot Hippolyta could use a big overhaul. Repainting, fixing some broken parts with more than…
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Dragoncon 2012 Recap!!
My 11th Dragoncon is in the books and it was another great year! So here’s my little report/pics/whatever you want to call it. We got into Atlanta Wednesday morning, got checked in and unpacked. Keep reading:
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2011 Costume Wrap-up
It’s that time of the year! Beginning of this year these were my plans: Enchantress – done! Alternate Wonder Woman – aka Hippolyta – done! Lady Blackhawk – done! Rogue – done! Marie Antoinette – done! Charlotte (Princess & the Frog) – no 🙁 Ms Marvel red suit/Moonstone – done! Disney character – no 🙁 TV character – no 🙁…
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Dragoncon 2011 Costume Recap
First up, Supergirl. My plan was to wear Supergirl all Thursday night; I ended up wearing it for about 20 minutes because I wanted to put on Donna. So now that Supergirl was out of the way (LOL) I wore Donna the rest of the night – there were so many Doctor Who people around and with K9 out, it…
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Hippolyta and Emma Frost…
Heres my new Hippolyta crown: My Emma Frost cape: (the rest of it was packed and I didn’t want to dig it out) Finishing up a few last things tonight. I’m hoping to have nothing to work on tomorrow but finishing my packing, and the last of this embroidery.
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Enchantress and Hippolyta Updates
Here are the updates I did to Enchantress & Hippolyta. Enchantress: New crown – taller, slightly different shape, should hopefully be easier to put on than the old one. New wig – at least, the one that I was supposed to wear at ECCC and couldn’t get it on with the crown. Works now. Updated Bodice – added some more…
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Sneak Peeks: Lady Blackhawk, Donna Noble, etc
Here’s a few pics I took of stuff I was working on fri-sat. Trying on Lady Blackhawk. My hat is huge! LOL. I will always have that problem because I have a tiny head. Hippolyta embroidery. It’s not perfect, but it’s going to show up a LOT better than the original drawn on lines. It’s a pain and taking longer…
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a few more MidSouthCon 2011 pics
Here’s some pics I found from friends from this past weekend. (pic by Glenn) my hair looked great friday. too bad it didn’t stay that way. I was really surprised by how many people knew who I was supposed to be – better than at Anaheim or Dragoncon, even. (At dcon people kept asking if I was a steampunk person.)…
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Hippolyta thoughts
Only got 3 pics of Hippolyta at the con and I look dead on my feet in everyone of them LOL But anyway – I’m really surprised it came together as well as it did, considering Chase didn’t finish the tiara, shoulder pieces, gauntlets and chestpiece until the night before, and we had to figure out the attachments in the…
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Hippolyta build
I fell in love with this costume back in October I think it was, and told Chase I wanted to do it for MidSouthCon. I started working on stuff back in January, and when I needed a break from Enchantress I’d go back to work on Hippolyta. I started out with a halter top made of the chiffon, and a…
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Hippolyta progress, Enchantress pic
First, work: Bodice: finished!! Made the belt and got it attached. Cape: finished!! Drape: not even. Waist wrap: finished!! Shoes: started on them, finishing tonight. Skirt: making progress. I hated the way I was doing the skirt detail and ripped it all off and had a bout of frustration last night, but then found an alternative and was happy with…
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Hippolyta panels
I spent pretty much all morning embroidering the front of this corset, then decided I didn’t like it, ripped it out, went and bought a grey pin and drew the design on. It’s not great but I think it’ll look better with some shadows added – the grey on silver is a little muddy, I think with a thin black…
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Hippolyta Progress
I got the upper part of my bodice cut out of my leather and put together, and started doing sketches on it. I’m going to finalize the sketches today and draw them on tonight. I just barely had enough leather. Chase tried to tickle me while I was walking away from him in the kitchen last night. I jerked away…
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like a boss
I got my skirt panels patterned, cut and dyed tonight.
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Enchantress skirt and boots!
As a costumer, I hate that moment when you see someone say, “I’ve never seen anyone do this costume well.” And you’ve done that costume and all you can think is, “omg, did they see mine and think it was crap? Is it crap? maybe they never saw it. or maybe they did and they think it’s crap!!” LOL. Anyway…
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Starting Hippolyta
Starting working on stuff for March – Enchantress for Emerald City Comic Con, and a surprise for MidSouthCon. The surprise is actually going to end up being pretty easy on my sewing side. Enchantress is going to be fairly easy as well – I got my fabric samples for her yesterday and I’m excited 🙂 Here’s what I have going…
