megara
Below you'll find posts about my Megara (Disney's Hercules) costume, which I made for Momocon 2014.
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MidSouthCon 2015
This weekend was MidSouthCon of course! (Warning: there is puke in the upcoming story.) It ended up being kind of a strange weekend. Our plans were to take Kevin and let him enjoy the convention while I was doing my panels and whatnot. We picked him up Thursday and he spent the night, then Friday I ran home at lunch…
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New pics!
I’ve actually already got these uploaded on their individual portfolio pages, but I was waiting til I had the Anne pics uploaded for making a blog post… but I want to post them now and it’s my blog so I do what I want. Megara: It’s not like I didn’t already have nice pics of this costume (I love the…
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2014 Year in Review – 2015 Plans
It’s that time of year!! Time to look back at what I accomplished and what I… didn’t accomplish. So last year, I said I was going to make… 1. Willow – Buffy the Vampire Slayer Nope. Even though this would have been easy I just never got to it. 2. Johanna’s Interview Dress – Catching Fire I DID THIS ONE!…
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Dressform Pics
Here’s everything so far. I’m only missing 3 actually so maybe I should have waited, but our server is down at work and I’m bored. Belldandy and Urd from 2003 and 2002, respectively. These two costumes have really stood the test of time. I knew Belldandy was in good shape since I wore her to Momocon earlier this year, but…
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Dcon 2014: Megara
I wore Megara for a couple of hours Saturday afternoon. Nothing major. It was more comfortable than half of my other costumes and I almost put it back on Sunday, but decided I didn’t feel like messing with the sandals. I wish I’d had time to fix the pleats on the dress before Dragoncon but alas – I’ll have to…
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A few more Momocon pics
Here’s a few more pictures that I didn’t have uploaded yet when I posted last. Kevin’s absolutely epic take on the classic “help I’m falling down the Marriott” photo: I loooooooooove these photos of my Belldandy Chase took. I TRIED to be good and wear sandals with Belldandy (I’ve gotten in trouble with hotels for not wearing shoes with it).…
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Meg thoughts
or, How to make your Uncomfortable Costume Comfortable in Two Easy Steps I was pretty well pleased with Meg, at the end of the weekend. But, the first time I wore it on Saturday, I made a huge, rookie mistake. I should have known better. I put my Meg wig on and everything felt fine. The problem with the wig…
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Momocon Pics – Round 1
Here’s the pics from my camera and my phone, and a handful from Chase – haven’t gotten all of his uploaded yet. We had a fantastic time! It was definitely a different crowd than we’re used to at a convention, but Kevin was in Kevin Heaven. We were up before the sun on Friday and the trip in went really…
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One last Meg update
Last night I finally got to try everything on. Of course, I’m STILL tacking pleats…. but other than that the dress is done in that pic. I was testing out shoes so I was actually standing in one heeled shoe and one flat shoe LOL I was hoping the flat shoes looked best, but unfortunately, the more uncomfortable heeled sandals…
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Meg Wig
I dug in last night and finished it. Well, almost, I’m going to recurl a couple of pieces tonight, but I’m calling it quits otherwise. Also, check out the snazzy new wig-working space I have, LOL. I was tired of having to work in the kitchen – our kitchen counters were the only place in the house that my wig…
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More Meg
Wow two posts on the costume in one day. I went home for lunch and experimented with tacking the pleats down. I don’t care for the “pucker” it creates but it does keep the pleats closer to the body, so it may be a tradoff I can live with.
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Meg
I’ve got 3 more nights to work — I’ve got to finish the wig, and finish tacking down the pleats. And paint my medallions and get them attached. I’m tackling the wig tonight – I’m hoping to FINISH it tonight, fingers crossed. Then Tuesday and Wednesday, tacking pleats, washing and restyling my Belle wig, and fixing one thing on Belldandy.…
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Hercules
My fav aspect of Disney’s Hercules has always been the character design. Here’s a great link of Gerald Scarfe’s awesome concept character designs for the movie.
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Pleats
If I EVER say I want to do something with pleats EVER again, please slap me.
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MEG! Progress. Finally.
So I finally feel like I make some headway on Meg. I finally figured out the pleats – but I stopped working on them and focused on other parts of the costume. I started working on the sashes: I cut the base out of some really nice lavender satin I had in my sash, then layered the chiffon on top.…
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Meg
Argh. I feel like I’ve basically gotten nothing done last night…. I started sewing down pleats again last night after starting over…. and I got through four of them when I, again, decided I didn’t like how they looked. So I ripped them out. And this is officially the last time I can do that, the fabric is starting to…
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To-Do List
To-Do List: Meg: Finish pleats. I started over. Ugh. Be done with this by Saturday evening. Sew in wig wefts. Create foam base for ponytail, sew it in place. Sew in ponytails/ curl. Get the bangs sprayed up the way I want. <- finish wig by next sunday Insert interior support system for dress/attach straps <- finish by this sunday…
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Round-up
A lot of thoughts, discussions, and purchases this weekend. Here’s a breakdown of everything I have going on. 1. Meg – still sewing pleats. Good grief. I took my dress, my pins, needle & thread, scissors and my ironing board and dressform to my grandma’s this weekend. I got out of my car and warned her, “You’re going to think…
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Hair & Wigs
Last night I pulled out my Meg wig stuff and started playing with it to get ideas. Just slapped together to see how everything is looking. I need to sew my wefts into the wig cap before I actually do anything – the wig I got wasn’t made for up-dos, so I need to add some extra hair to cover…
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Anniversary stuff + Meg
I’ve got to get a better photo of it to post, but for now, Chase got me this for an anniversary present: It’s me in my Belle ballgown, as drawn by our friend Jon Wollack! I’m really excited to have a piece of his artwork. I can’t wait to get this up on the wall in my sewing room –…
