Cardamom Twist Bread Take 2 is proofing. Time to surf the web...
And look! Another con photo of the Chase Dress, from here, taken by a guy in a... Babylon 5 uniform? Something like that? I can't quite recall. Anyway, sorry I don't know your name.
That gallery also has a shot of me in the full There and Back Again ensemble (complete with silly headdress!) at the Friday Night Social. I lack puppets and the rest of the group, but at least it's a full-length shot of the costume.
I should have thought to turn around and show the back, because the back of the long vest is nifty. I guess I'll just have to take a picture of it myself...
The back of the vest. This is the Greek Long Vest pattern from Folkwear's #126 Vests from Greece and Poland. I've wanted a vest from this pattern for a long time. (I still want one that isn't quite so glitzy.) The inverted V at the top is a change I made to incorporate more of the paisley corduroy around the shoulders since I wanted a lot of color and pizazz in that area. Also, I figured smaller pieces of the corduroy would be easier and cheaper to bead than the relatively vast expanses down near the hem.
Close-up of the shoulder. I had a terrible time getting the velvet to like flat across the upper back. I only got it to look smooth the Sunday before CC26, after having worn it in a more rumpled state through two masquerades during the previous year.
Beaded. Rainbow. Paisley. Corduroy. Yum.
The upper front. I cut the pattern and pieced in more corduroy here, too. The pleated inner collar was also an addition. Witness the awkward transition between said collar and the front binding.
The weird, curvy, underarm patch-thingy. (I don't know either. No one said ethnic costume was entirely logical.) I used a slightly different color/texture scheme on the beading in these areas - more ornate and with more gold and less red.
Red heart and bead tassel between the curvy underarm-thingies and the gores below.
Each tassel conceals a little metal ring. There's a gold hook sewn partway down the back of each of the long sleeves on the shirt. By attaching the hooks to the rings, I can bustle up the sleeves for situations where I don't want them swinging around or catching on anything. (I have to remember to unhook them before I start to undress, though, or I end up in the world's most ornate straight jacket.)
Below the hearts, as the corduroy gores widen, the beading peters out to nothing.
The piping was made from an interesting quilting calico printed with a pattern of rainbow colored ropes edged in metallic gold.
I had an interesting time figuring out how to bring the binding around the corners in the front. The binding was cut from a quilting fabric printed with roses in shades of purple. I appliqued the snazzy trim to the front side and combined it with a row of piping.
The inside. This was taken the weekend before CC26 when I'd opened up the hem to fix the velvet across the upper back. The lining is one of those lame/cotton blends. Applying the zig-zag applique down the front shrank the lining along the front edge in the vertical direction. (Either that or the velvet stretched in that one place.) The result was a gap between the bottom of the lining and the top of the binding from the front edges around to the side seams. I had it very crudely covered over originally, but I dug out my7 scraps of the zig-zag fabric and took the opportunity to add a horizontal applique to each side of the front to bridge the gap.
Okay, that's enough - even though that was only one garment! I'll have to show off each of the others separately.
That gallery also has a shot of me in the full There and Back Again ensemble (complete with silly headdress!) at the Friday Night Social. I lack puppets and the rest of the group, but at least it's a full-length shot of the costume.
I should have thought to turn around and show the back, because the back of the long vest is nifty. I guess I'll just have to take a picture of it myself...
The back of the vest. This is the Greek Long Vest pattern from Folkwear's #126 Vests from Greece and Poland. I've wanted a vest from this pattern for a long time. (I still want one that isn't quite so glitzy.) The inverted V at the top is a change I made to incorporate more of the paisley corduroy around the shoulders since I wanted a lot of color and pizazz in that area. Also, I figured smaller pieces of the corduroy would be easier and cheaper to bead than the relatively vast expanses down near the hem.
Close-up of the shoulder. I had a terrible time getting the velvet to like flat across the upper back. I only got it to look smooth the Sunday before CC26, after having worn it in a more rumpled state through two masquerades during the previous year.
Beaded. Rainbow. Paisley. Corduroy. Yum.
The upper front. I cut the pattern and pieced in more corduroy here, too. The pleated inner collar was also an addition. Witness the awkward transition between said collar and the front binding.
The weird, curvy, underarm patch-thingy. (I don't know either. No one said ethnic costume was entirely logical.) I used a slightly different color/texture scheme on the beading in these areas - more ornate and with more gold and less red.
Red heart and bead tassel between the curvy underarm-thingies and the gores below.
Each tassel conceals a little metal ring. There's a gold hook sewn partway down the back of each of the long sleeves on the shirt. By attaching the hooks to the rings, I can bustle up the sleeves for situations where I don't want them swinging around or catching on anything. (I have to remember to unhook them before I start to undress, though, or I end up in the world's most ornate straight jacket.)
Below the hearts, as the corduroy gores widen, the beading peters out to nothing.
The piping was made from an interesting quilting calico printed with a pattern of rainbow colored ropes edged in metallic gold.
I had an interesting time figuring out how to bring the binding around the corners in the front. The binding was cut from a quilting fabric printed with roses in shades of purple. I appliqued the snazzy trim to the front side and combined it with a row of piping.
The inside. This was taken the weekend before CC26 when I'd opened up the hem to fix the velvet across the upper back. The lining is one of those lame/cotton blends. Applying the zig-zag applique down the front shrank the lining along the front edge in the vertical direction. (Either that or the velvet stretched in that one place.) The result was a gap between the bottom of the lining and the top of the binding from the front edges around to the side seams. I had it very crudely covered over originally, but I dug out my7 scraps of the zig-zag fabric and took the opportunity to add a horizontal applique to each side of the front to bridge the gap.
Okay, that's enough - even though that was only one garment! I'll have to show off each of the others separately.