Belle progress!
So I got some work done on the costume this weekend. I'd been making roses all last week:
I now have about a dozen more of the sparkly yellow ones. I'm still unsure if I'm going to end up using the orange-y ones. I like the color, but they didn't turn out very uniform and I'm not sure I have enough. The original plan was to use the roses to hold up the gold swag thing that runs around the skirt, but... okay, so the skirt.
I'd originally planned for 8-9 panels (art/toys/whathaveyou usually show her with anywhere from 7 to 11 panels, when I've counted). When I got my fabric and the crinoline and did the math, I realized I underestimated how long I'd need to cut each panel to do the gathering, and did not have enough fabric to cut it the way I'd intended. But no problem. I'd just cut 10 panels in an attempt to use as much fabric as possible, that should be fine.
It was not fine. Gathering up the fabric like that makes the widest part of each panel much less wide than I'd counted on, so 10 panels wasn't going to cut it. I went out to the fabric district the next day, thinking I was super lucky that I'd had to charge the skirt fabric and so had a record of which store it was I needed to find, and a quick search on google even gave me the address. In good shape so far!
The store never opened. I went all over the fabric district with a little sample of what I needed to find but found nothing exact. I eventually settled on something close enough (it's the same texture and weight at least, and ALMOST the same color, but the yellow is shot with brown instead of white, which makes a subtle difference in some lights). But I can live with it. Anyway, this now means that I'll have 14 panels on the skirt instead of the 8 I'd originally planned on, so I gotta make way more roses or perhaps alternate between the orange and the yellow. I haven't decided.
It also means I gotta glue on another thousand sequins or something. Maybe I will make it two thousand so you can actually see them.
I have 10 of the panels sequined and gathered, and 5 sewn together so far (and Karen is awesome enough to let me use her dress form to get the length right):
The work actually goes really easy, it's just the sequins that take time. Hoping to get those all glued to the new panels tonight so I can get the skirt finished this week.
Then also hoping the rest of the wig stuff I ordered turns up today so I can get going on that.
I'm hoping the rest will be pretty easy, so I can finish by the end of next weekend with no problems. I'll be wearing this to Disneyland on the 30th and I kind of can't wait!
I now have about a dozen more of the sparkly yellow ones. I'm still unsure if I'm going to end up using the orange-y ones. I like the color, but they didn't turn out very uniform and I'm not sure I have enough. The original plan was to use the roses to hold up the gold swag thing that runs around the skirt, but... okay, so the skirt.
I'd originally planned for 8-9 panels (art/toys/whathaveyou usually show her with anywhere from 7 to 11 panels, when I've counted). When I got my fabric and the crinoline and did the math, I realized I underestimated how long I'd need to cut each panel to do the gathering, and did not have enough fabric to cut it the way I'd intended. But no problem. I'd just cut 10 panels in an attempt to use as much fabric as possible, that should be fine.
It was not fine. Gathering up the fabric like that makes the widest part of each panel much less wide than I'd counted on, so 10 panels wasn't going to cut it. I went out to the fabric district the next day, thinking I was super lucky that I'd had to charge the skirt fabric and so had a record of which store it was I needed to find, and a quick search on google even gave me the address. In good shape so far!
The store never opened. I went all over the fabric district with a little sample of what I needed to find but found nothing exact. I eventually settled on something close enough (it's the same texture and weight at least, and ALMOST the same color, but the yellow is shot with brown instead of white, which makes a subtle difference in some lights). But I can live with it. Anyway, this now means that I'll have 14 panels on the skirt instead of the 8 I'd originally planned on, so I gotta make way more roses or perhaps alternate between the orange and the yellow. I haven't decided.
It also means I gotta glue on another thousand sequins or something. Maybe I will make it two thousand so you can actually see them.
I have 10 of the panels sequined and gathered, and 5 sewn together so far (and Karen is awesome enough to let me use her dress form to get the length right):
The work actually goes really easy, it's just the sequins that take time. Hoping to get those all glued to the new panels tonight so I can get the skirt finished this week.
Then also hoping the rest of the wig stuff I ordered turns up today so I can get going on that.
I'm hoping the rest will be pretty easy, so I can finish by the end of next weekend with no problems. I'll be wearing this to Disneyland on the 30th and I kind of can't wait!