So what did we accomplish as a group?


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We all sew in here, right? That means you all know how it is with us - our own projects always come in dead last when it comes to prioritization on a timeline. Same story here.  Now that my niece and sister were solidly on their way to finished dresses, I had to start my own ( Read more... )

So now we had fabulous headdresses that were beautiful and drew comments from every random stranger we passed by [i]: clearly the pressure was on to produce gowns to match.  And that was when my sewing reality hit me like a ton of bricks ( Read more... )

So, taking up where my prior entry left of; how did we make those Mucha things anyway?

We started with the headdresses.

This seems simple enough, until you try to find flowers the size of the ones in the inspiration images, or at least my inspiration image:


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You know how you sometimes think, "Why don't all my people know each other more?!? My friends are the greatest and my family rocks! We like the same things! Costumes! Booze! Adventure! How can we all spend more time doing that stuff together...  I have a brilliant plan!"

And thus CoCo 2013 was born.*

claughter713 and I were lazing around on the interwebz one ( Read more... )