Chase took some photos of my finished Belle dresses last night. We just set them up in the hallway (under the Belle portrait!) on the dressform. The blue dress: After I sent it in for a final try-on, I found out I was going to have to lose about 4 inches of length when I hemmed it. I tried to keep as much length tucked into the hem as possible (in ...
Yay new projects to talk about! I'm currently working on two Belle costumes for a production of Beauty and the Beast! My mom is doing the 3 dresses for Gaston's silly girls, and I'm doing the Belle village dress and ballgown. Week before last, we went shopping... starting with a disappointing trip to Hancock Fabrics. 4 in the afternoon, lines four people deep at the cutting table and the register, bolts laying ...
A couple of weeks ago, I had planned to do an outdoor location photoshoot with Chasing Photography of my new Belle ballgown. Well, we got rained out. So, to make up for it, we did a white backdrop shoot of four of my Belle costumes! I've updated each of my portfolio pages with some of my favourites :)
I've been adding a lot of new photos over the past few weeks! I've got new pics for Batgirl, Ripley, Utena, and Belle's blue dress! And I finally finished adding pics from Halloween to that set in the events section.
So at the beginning of 2012, this is what I said I wanted to get done: Romana II - did it! Donna Noble Silence in the Library outfit - did it! remake Belle (maybe… had this one on my list several times and have never gotten to it) - did it! (finally!) Wasp (been suggested several times so I might finally do it) - did it! Cinderella (maybe) - nope! Had ...
I hope everyone had a very fun & happy halloween this year! Ours was rather low-key. At work, my team decided to be Mad Scientists, so I threw together a last-minute Dr. Forrester costume. Kevin was our creature! He stayed in character all day, too. We stayed home last night to hand out candy, and sadly did not have near as many trick-or-treaters as we have the past few years, ...
So here's some progress pics. Still need to: make hatband find white shirt (this one is my old Hermione one, it's in bad shape) socks (the ones I bought aren't working) tighten hat strap and sew in combs Still need to: fix a grommet on the back get a new wig!
This post is useless without pictures, but ah well. I finished Belle, finally, with the exception of the hairbow. I bought some ribbon that's fairly close and I'm hoping to just make a bow and glue it to a barrette, instead of having to tie it on everytime like I've done in the past. Romana is almost done, too. I've decided to go without the blazer for now since it's ...
I haven't had anything to work on recently so I've been working on Belle again. I got the apron made and the sleeves done. All that's left now is attaching the collar. I've also got to figure out a hairbow, since I threw away the scraps of the blue material when we moved from the apartment. But - who knows, I may have it done by this weekend. Going fabric ...
Got the bodice rehemmed last night, and had to fix a seam on the back, but it's done now. Got the other sleeve put in, and cut out a collar, too. I still need to hem the shirt, finish the sleeve edges, attach the collar and make the apron. This fabric is some of the worst wrinkling stuff I've ever had. That skirt has been neatly folded and sitting on ...