The ombre dyed silk..and my foot
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Semi busy day
Petticoat is together yay, that was a huge pain, as I decided to put a zipper in it and have the zipper between the outer layer and inner yoke and between the lining, all with the tulle getting partly in the way. It just needs a waistband and the hem evened and then the hem, hemmed.. not sure how I want to hem it yet. I don’t think I’m going to put a waistband on it until I get the sheer layers on it, I think I’ll have them attached to the petticoat just to make it less layers to mess with.
Got a corset pattern partly scaled up, it came out smaller then I expected so I have lots of messing with it to do, but at least I have a base for it now.
Velvet skirt needs to be sewn but holding off on that until I decide how I want to sew it, leaning towards cutting down the seam allowances and doing a narrow zig zag stitch as a way to seam it and take care of the edges in one pass without messing with the drape of it. I wish I had a serger it would make this so much easier.
Need to test the fusible on a scap of velvet to see how much it will change the hand of it, if it doesn’t work out well then I’ll flat line it with some cotton.
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headdress horn mock up
Needs to be a touch smaller
note to self: extend back of headdress base by about 3.5ish inches at least
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Progress
Yay the storm has turned, no rain here oddly enough as the radar says we should have rain but ah well. Headaches from the constant change in pressure as not so fun, and impend my ability to do basic math. Such as how wide and how many layers should I make a pleat when trying to pleat down 7 yards of tulle into 26 inches? (I most likely will be sensible later one when my head has stopped trying to kill me and just do several layers of tulle at 3 yards each…)
Early BBC monster…I got part of the petticoat cut out for the Evil Disney Queen dress. I going to have to sit down and figure out how to cut out the lining layer for it, as I have random lengths of fabric left and it is going to take some tweaking.
Almost done hand sewing my doublet, I think it needs to be let out a bit more, but won’t know for sure until I have the hooks and eyes on. Trim wise after being on the fence about the gold lace, and then liking it. I realized that it was just a bit too wide to look proportionate on me. So the hunt for trim starts again. I saw some perfect trim at Joann’s but I didn’t check how wide it was and at 8 or 9 bucks a yard it was put back as I need 10+ yards. Oddly enough they had the same trim just a bit narrower for only 4.99 a yard. Bah.
Trim hunting thus far, as a reminder to myself.
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Letting things evolve
Went shopping for costume supplies and talked about what direction the costume should go in, so I did a bit of a redesign of the concept art.
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Material test
Multicolored flora wrap fused to some scrap leather, the top one is just one layer that was wrinkled, flattened and then fused, the second square is two layers of it
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More Maleficent/Nerissa pondering
Corset: Right now I am thinking pleather, if it can be found, or a cotton velvet. I like the look of external boning cases and have read the entry in corsetmakers about them.The outer fashion fabric casings I’ve seen are cut on the bias, however one thing that isn’t clear is if the strength layer of the casing is as well?Can anyone shed a tiny bit of light on this?Skirt: Petticoat made of nylon netting sandwiched between 2 layers of lining fabric. Over that various layers of sheer fabric in blacks, mauves, purples and so forth. In between some of those layers the softer tulle just for poof and texture.Debating if I should make the skirts as 2 different ones, or have it all attach at one point to a yoke to reduce bulk under the corset.
