The making of the Lands coat.
Jojo finally got me to come to Lands in Exile. Something I had been planning to do for quite a while now, but never got round to it due to time and money restraints.
A new LARP character ofcourse needs a new outfit. My character will be a (rather naive) Druid. So we needed lots of browns and greens. As I would be spending a lot of nights in the forest, the costume also needed to be warm. I could recycle some old costume parts. I had some generic pants and a shirt that were sturdy enough, and I had a green wool sleeveles jacket thing left over from Silverleaf.
That was most of the costume assembled. But the character would need something to make it unique. We dicided on a coat made of brown and green leftover pieces of cloth.
A couple of weeks ago, Jojo came over to help me make the cloth for the coat. We both had scavenged our fabric pile and gathered all those leftover pieces of brown and green.
We sewed the pieces of fabric together to make a large piece of cloth that was big enough to cut the pattern from. From two seperate pieces of fabric, we cut the sleeves:
Sewing all the seperate pieces of cloth together was quite a challenge, but the result looked great.
Putting the pieces together was easier, altough my sewing machine didnt like the places where to seams met. Its a good machine, but not very good at handling thick fabric.
Soon: the coat took shape:
For extra warmth, we lined the coat with fleece. It would be cheap, warm, and easy to wash. I would also be able to get rid of that horribly coloured leftover fleece I had been saving.
Last weekend we finished the coat, putting in the lining and sewing it all together.
I am very pleased with how the coat turned out. The coat is warm and sturdy, and I look like a homeless persone. 3 out of 3 mission objectives complete!
I am forever greatfull that Jojo came to help. It would have been an impossible project with just one persone.
Lands in Exile, beware, here I come!
A new LARP character ofcourse needs a new outfit. My character will be a (rather naive) Druid. So we needed lots of browns and greens. As I would be spending a lot of nights in the forest, the costume also needed to be warm. I could recycle some old costume parts. I had some generic pants and a shirt that were sturdy enough, and I had a green wool sleeveles jacket thing left over from Silverleaf.
That was most of the costume assembled. But the character would need something to make it unique. We dicided on a coat made of brown and green leftover pieces of cloth.
A couple of weeks ago, Jojo came over to help me make the cloth for the coat. We both had scavenged our fabric pile and gathered all those leftover pieces of brown and green.
We sewed the pieces of fabric together to make a large piece of cloth that was big enough to cut the pattern from. From two seperate pieces of fabric, we cut the sleeves:
Sewing all the seperate pieces of cloth together was quite a challenge, but the result looked great.
Putting the pieces together was easier, altough my sewing machine didnt like the places where to seams met. Its a good machine, but not very good at handling thick fabric.
Soon: the coat took shape:
For extra warmth, we lined the coat with fleece. It would be cheap, warm, and easy to wash. I would also be able to get rid of that horribly coloured leftover fleece I had been saving.
Last weekend we finished the coat, putting in the lining and sewing it all together.
I am very pleased with how the coat turned out. The coat is warm and sturdy, and I look like a homeless persone. 3 out of 3 mission objectives complete!
I am forever greatfull that Jojo came to help. It would have been an impossible project with just one persone.
Lands in Exile, beware, here I come!