Costumes

[dancerjodi]

As already mentioned, we'll be working on costumes for DragonCon. We'll be doing:

Gendo Ikari and Misato Katsuragi (pretty simple to pull together, though must sew dress and jacket and order a red had and pick up a black&blue wig, I saw a good one at Newbury comics of all places).
http://www.angelfire.com/anime4/gendoikari/images/card1.jpg
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/Juzzam/NGE/MisatoNERV.jpg

Zechs Merquise (or is it, Miliardo Peacecraft) and Lucrezia Noin from Gundham Wing (yeah, I'm sure I butchered the spelling of those names). These should be interesting, we'll be making the uniform coats, I'll need to get boots somewhere and I'll have to find a good short purpley-blue wig that's in anime chick style.
http://www.geocities.com/honor_of_sphinx/pics/z8.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/instructornoin_pics/noin151.jpg

And the most scary one of them all, Anakin and Padme from Episode II - I'm going to attempt to make the picnic gown. The only thing that really scares me is the bodice - I'll have to figure out a way to do it and make it look OK without doing crazy amounts of embroidery.
http://www.padawansguide.com/promo/pages/anakin1_promo.htm
http://www.padawansguide.com/padme/flowered/padme_flowered_promo1.jpg

Any tips anyone? I'm not trying to be perfect here, these are all costumes I thought would at one point be fun to make and I could wear parts of them elsewhere later on.

And, would any of you sewing people be up for a stich-n-bitch? I have a paper due on May 20 and after that, my leisure time will be spend sewing (both for me, and for Swanstage, once they need me).

Comments

[devina.livejournal.com]

Does crochet count as an acceptable activity during a stitch n bitch?

(You are a brave, brave woman. Yikes. That's a lotta sewing.)

Yup!

[dancer.livejournal.com]

"Does crochet count as an acceptable activity during a stitch n bitch?"

Of course it does! :)

"(You are a brave, brave woman. Yikes. That's a lotta sewing.)"

The only thing really scaring me is the Padme outfit. I figure, if I'm not able to pull it off I'll throw together something like the white outfit that I wore to Ceremony last month (but I'd really like to try) :)

Re: Yup!

[devina.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun, I'd love to join in! (I'm working on a good date to host brunch at my place, too. busy busy. Ugh.)

[dawntreader]

aw crap!! i have a garb pattern that looks almost identical to the padme dress. i don't know how expert of a seamstress you are, but with some slight modifications i think it would work perfectly. it would at least get you in the ballpark.

i can't find the pattern online to show you a picture, tho. i'll see if i can scrounge it up at home and at least tell you what brand and pattern # it was.

Padme dress

[dancer.livejournal.com]

"Aw crap!! i have a garb pattern that looks almost identical to the padme dress."

I actually have one - the website that I got that pic from has some GREAT resources and suggestions for making it and I picked up some patterns this weekend.

I haven't done too much work with stand-alone corset things (I've made lightly boned bodices that were a part of a dress or made crappy quality bodices to wear to fair). This will be a challenge!

[electricsoup.livejournal.com]

there are so many good web sites for the star wars pattern ones. I've seen a few people do that same dress with varying degrees of success - i'm guessing you could get a lot of good info from where they failed, at least :)

i'm going to try to do padme in the gunmetal silver skirt and black velvet top from ep II myself. woo! :)

[mizdarkgirl.livejournal.com]

Stitch-N-Bitch? Sounds fun. I used to go to a crafty nite...

Picnic Gown

[fieryredhead.livejournal.com]

Looks like Im going to be making a picnic gown for a little girl so I feel your pain. Here is a link to a discussion forum with 33 pages of stuff!

http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=8158555&replies=801

Re: Picnic Gown

[dancer.livejournal.com]

"Looks like Im going to be making a picnic gown for a little girl so I feel your pain. Here is a link to a discussion forum with 33 pages of stuff!

http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=8158555&replies=801"

Thanks! I think this is referenced in thepadawansguide.com, that's an awesome website!

I was actually mourning the fact that you were in Texas, if you were still around I was going to see if I could commission you to make the corset for me (no embroidery, but cheating to make it look so) :)

I know you were planning on making that black/corset thing (and maybe one of the blue dresses too) at one point . . . any plans to do this soon?

YAY! We'll get to see you in August :)

Re: Picnic Gown

[fieryredhead.livejournal.com]

Im definately making the Fireside dress for DragonCon; still scouting for the perfect skirt material as I already have the pleather for the corset.

Hmm... how would I go about 'cheating' on the embroidery?

Re: Picnic Gown

[dancer.livejournal.com]

"Hmm... how would I go about 'cheating' on the embroidery?"

I was hoping to find similar appliques myself and just sew them on (and again, I'm not going crazy or uber-accurate - I'm not that cool) :)

[innocenti.livejournal.com]

stitch-n-bitch sounds fun. count me in for sometime after june 1.