padme lake 3
Below you’ll find my blog posts about my Padme (Star Wars) Lake Gown costume, constructed in 2006. These particular posts only concern the 3rd version - I have made five total.
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animal crossing, some art, and not much else
I mean I don’t think I need to tell you guys how shitty the world is right now so I won’t whine here. Let’s just jump right into Padme stuff. When I left off last week, I was still trying to disassemble the last bit of the nightgown. Or, I think I’d just finished it? Either way it was in…
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Padme’s Lake Dress Hair – a Sort-of Tutorial
A friend on instagram asked how I did my Padme lake dress hair, and I thought it would be way easier to answer over here where I could type everything out and post pictures easier than trying to type on my phone on instagram. I’ve never done a full tutorial on how I did this hair, BUT I have drawn…
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Revisiting old Padme Photos
I spent the weekend at my grandma’s, avoiding coping, doing some retail therapy and working on some old photos. I’ve mentioned it before, but I’ve been working on this project for almost a year now – replacing all my old costume pictures with larger, better versions. It’s a long project when you have as my costumes and costume photos as…
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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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Dragoncon 2006 wrap-up: everything else
All the non-new costumes, and how the held up. I wore classic Leia friday morning at the RL table. That was fun! I had planned on doing that last year, but ended up wearing the metal bikini instead. Got pics with PsychoShinji… yay! I missed her when she was in Robin and I was in Starfire last year. I also…
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Dragoncon2006: Saturday pics!
Saturday morning was the parade! I had to iron that monster of my lake dress, and we didn’t really get my hair on right – we were in a hurry because we were running late! Neither of us went to the 501st pic, but by the time we got to the staging area, the parade was just starting, so that…
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Mando updates, and SDCC pics
When you starting dreaming about your costume to-do lists…. well, it’s just plain silly. Yesterday I focused on stamping and almooooost got the thing done. Chase still won’t let me show the secret. But here’s a few other pics I took over the weekend. Stitch’s nose fell off after the Big Scoop. It was inevitable, it had just barely been…
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Padme Lake dress wrap-up
Whew! A quick trip down memory lane. My first & second versions, in 2002 for Dragoncon, and 2006 for MidSouthcon: My first version, I still very much love it and wouldn’t get rid of it for anything, but as time went by I realised more and more how inaccurate it is, and really wanted to remake it properly one day.…
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Hello from Comic Con 2006! (Again)
For the first time ever… I got called “Vader” while wearing ANH Leia today. I’m about to go upload a few more pics – just the ones from yesterday morning – in my flickr account (see the link in my previous entry). I’ll work on some more of them tomorrow. Yesterday morning I wore the new Lake dress… it went…
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Dyeing the Lake Dress
Here’s the outer piece dyed and drying!!
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Lake dress updates!
It’s almost theeeeere!!
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Nearly there
The X for Rogue is done. She’s packed… The Padme brooches are done (although the casting didn’t work; we’re going to try it again after the con, so I’ll be wearing the sculpey ones there) and packed. Lake dress is not done. It’ll have to go with me on the plane. Yesterday was NOT a good day. I won’t go…
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Lake dress & Mustafar updates
Danielle’s lake dress is nearly done; I spent the afternoon dying the chiffon. Interesting experience… i did it a different way and for the most part i’m pleased with the results. The only thing i was disappointed in was the blue… it faded a LOT, especially at the bottom, so when I dye mine tomorrow I may put the bottom…
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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 and Lake Padme Progress
Mustafar: I just kinda tossed the hair up for the picture so it’s not right, but here’s everything but the jewelry. Hopefully Chase will be casting those for me tomorrow night. I’m going to make another pregnancy pad – I don’t like that one… it’s just a pillow and it won’t stay put. Those are pants #2. They’re too light,…
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Rogue, Mustafar and Lake Padme updates!
I finished my Rogue straps, the boots and all the little straps that go around her wrists, upper arms and top of the boots! Whoohoo! All I have left to do on her is sew some velcro on the legs and top of the boots so the boots will freaking stay up. And get Chase to finish the center X…
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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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Fabric & SDCC 2006 Schedule
My main brooch for mustafar padme is almost done; I’m a bit stuck on doing the little flowers on the sculpey. Everytime I tried to just carve the shape it ends up not looking right. I got tired of thinking about it yesterday so I haven’t looked at it since. I went to the fabric store friday – got my…
