Somehow last week I used up my entire month's internet data allowance in 4 days - I think something in the background was constantly refreshing and as I was home sick my netbook was on and thusly byebye data.  I have 5Gb and 2.7 went on a Kickstarter steampunk episode that I forgot to download in December.  Silly me!  though the other 2.3 just went ( Read more... )

I had so much fun with poisonedkitty and before we'd even got to the train station we'd been recognised by a fan of Game of Thrones.

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On the way home tonight (Monday) I'm buying a long colour appropriate invisible zip, elastic and maybe bias binding. When home I'll do the zip and sew the last 2 panel seams.  Then start the hobbit bodice. I'm using 2 layers of putty green canvas, and plastic boning the crap out of it and use some flat steels I have if they're the right length. In ( Read more... )

today I went to the sewing guild and took along a few essentials. My 2nd toile of the bodice for catelyn's dress and the 2nd toile of the hobbit bodice ( Read more... )

So yes I got an extra-long zip from the stash TICK, and sewed together Catelyn's mockup bodice TICK and have an idea how it needs to be altered TICK.  On the way to the tub-o-white fabric, I looked in teh costume fabric cupboard and LO, BEHOLD there was the unbleached voile TICK.

Not even on my ticky-list was preshrinking the unbleached voile ( Read more... )

Just to make sure I don't forget something essential over the next 3.5 weeks.  Strike through = done

Hobbit
wig - must get a wig comb & tidy it up
chemise - need to cut, stitch
bodice - need to 2nd toile, cut, sew. (ooh, must order grommets)
bag
skirt 1
skirt 2
apron
shoes

Catelyn
wig - have 2 being commissioned into 1. dye or spray my hair dark ( Read more... )

Eep, I just realised that I've made zero thought as to what shoes Catelyn Stark wears.  Or maybe she wears boots.  I'm looking at my shoe collection and wonder what I can wear that's comfortable and closely appropriate - given that I have freakishly wide feet and can't just go out and buy shoes ( Read more... )

Hmm, it looked like it would be a lot darker, but after washing this is the result. It's darker than the season 1 & 2 dress, but nowhere near as dark as her new dress. What I think I'll do is sew the dress with a darker thread, (but don't yet hem) and then just dye the dress and see what happens.


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ugh, the interwebs just ate my post as I went to post. Lets see what I can remember ( Read more... )

At the Popcorn taxi evening, Michelle Fairley said how happy she was to get a new dress for Season 3 ... she had the least amount of costume changes compared to the other women ( Read more... )