padme nightgown
Below you’ll find my blog posts about my Padme (Star Wars) nightgown costume. I began this costume in 2006 and FINALLY finished it in 2020.
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make the friendship bracelets
I don’t have a lot to chat about this week EXCEPT costume stuff. I worked on Honeymoon Leia every night last week and almost all of that was me monkeying with the back zipper. It took me forever to get it installed without it pulling at the bottom weird. TBH I don’t know what I was thinking doing the zipper…
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2020 wrap-up
I always looking forward to doing my end of the year costume wrap-ups. This year is sad. I really didn’t think a year could get worse than 2019 and that 2020 would be a great year. Instead we got a dumpster fire. I’m angry, sad, depressed. All I want is to get eat pizza in a restaurant. Anyway. I did…
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hooked on a feeling
Today I have the last bit of photoshoot stuff to post! And I’ll also say the website is fully updated, 2020 projects added, new photos added (except Hera, she was the last set, I’ll get her added soon.) Hera photos! Very happy with these. Padme nightgown shots! I did some with and some without the baby bump. I like the…
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a 4 day weekend and nothing to show for it
Like seriously I don’t have much of anything to post today. I had big plans for the weekend… I took Thursday off, and had Friday off. Pretty much everything got derailed. One of the main projects I wanted to work on this weekend was redoing my closet. I didn’t get to do that because… oh wait. Did I ever mention…
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constant state of irritation
that’s me lately. no chill. just constantly, constantly irritated at EVERYTHING. Except cookies. And potatoes. Those are the only good things in life. I really don’t have much to post this week. I DID get my domain name moved Friday. At least, I thought it was over and done with but the new company this morning said my old one…
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hurry boy it’s waiting there for you
Another week of quarantine. Been doing ok. As long as I stay off news sites, reddit front page, facebook and twitter I’m ok. Although instagram yesterday said “hey, you’ve liked 3 posts tagged #quarantine this week, would you like to follow this hashtag?” Getting down to only “emergency” rations of food so put in a giant shipt order for today,…
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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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if I just ignore everything…
… then everything is ok? Seriously as long as I stay off reddit, facebook and twitter I’m not in a spiral of anxiety. But then I go to something I thought would be safe and BAM hi here’s a reminder that everything sucks. Fun podcast? We’re going to open with a super serious statement on COVID-19. Instagram? Here’s everybody who…
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boredom sets in
So I have nothing to work on – I finished my other puzzle, we can’t finish painting… so I pulled out a couple of old projects I never finished. First up was Belle, my 3rd version of the village dress. I thought this was in pieces, but when I got it out and looked it over, it was really close…
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2007 in review
Well since I’m mostly done for the year – outside of my little secret project – I’m gonna go ahead and post this. I’ve had it done for a while actually LOL At the beginning of the year, this is what I wanted to accomplish… keeping in mind that when I wrote this, Chase hadn’t proposed yet and changed a…
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Halloween and Belle updates
I’m hoping to go pick up fabric for my new blue Belle dress this weekend. I’d like to go ahead and get started on it, despite how burnt-out I was feeling right after Dragoncon. With no internet on my laptop, I keep looking for other things to do — and with Chase working on new helmet sculpts in the work…
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The sewing machine is back..
The sewing machine is back, because my mum forgot to drop it off at the store. D’oh. Tomorrow I’m going to get the main pieces cut out for the dress of the Padme water gown. I really need to do some experimenting with the velvet for outer cape. I may put the nightgown away again for a while, because I’d…
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Padme Nightgown & Ewok Leia progress!
I ran out of thread for the Ewok dress Tuesday night, so I pulled out the Padme steel blue nightgown again. I finally hemmed the other wing (which was starting to fray pretty badly after just laying around in a box since October), and got them pinned on to the back of the dress…. only to decide I didn’t like…
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Costume & Convention Plans
Weekend after next is St Patrick’s Day; we’re planning on going to Atlanta again for their big parade, with the 501st/RL. I’m – hopefully – wearing Queen Amidala, the parade dress. After the mixup last year I’m a little skittish about things falling through again. On top of that, a bunch of our local members have decided not to go.…
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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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New Vibro-Ax! Leia Photoshoot, and Christmas Parade Pics!
First off, my new toy came today! oh heck yes… New Leia pics we took a while back– I want to do the Rebel Legion trading cards this time around, so I needed better pics of some of my costumes. Next up – padme lake dress — stormtrooper — imperial officer — maybe the parade dress Although, speaking of that,…
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Various Costume updates!
Well I haven’t gotten much done lately – been working on the website, or some art stuff. I’ve got about four projects I’m working on currently– Ceremonial Leia v.2 – Since the pattern I bought back in August has apparently disappeared into the black hole that is my sewing room, I bought another one and got it cut out, and…
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Hoth Leia, Padme Nightgown and Dorothy updates
This weekend is Horrorfest; I’m trying to get Hoth Leia finished for it. I worked a little bit last night, but the sewing machine was being horrid to me so I quit (I swear, the needle came unthreaded three times in the space of, like, 5 minutes. The last time I just quit. I had been up since 5:45 yesterday,…
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Padme Nightgown and Hoth Leia progress
Making a quick post of my progress from work, because I realised I won’t be home to do this until at least tomorrow night! (Going to my grandmother’s tonight 🙂 The vest as it was yesterday evening: Just pinned together, and inside out. The vest as it is right now: Still need to turn the front, the sleeves, make the…
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Padme Nightgown, Dorothy, etc
I worked for a while tonight, and got some good stuff done! Padme’s Nightgown – Got the basic thing put together. I really don’t like this McCall’s pattern – it’s strange. I used it for the basic pieces, made it larger to take out the fitted aspect of the bodice, and completely eliminated the bonig. The way they had the…
