The first step in the costuming process has been accomplished for two outfits...Fabric has been purchased! I was getting worried that i wasn't going to have time to work on any costumes with all of my travels, but i'm finding things i can do here and there. This evening involved a second trip to Mood in NY. I could move in there, such beautiful things. I was super happy to hear that they had an LA location as well, so i don't have to start flying here to buy fabric. Everything was beautiful! Everything had a match-ish silk taffeta, oh my kinda place ; )
Set One - The first is a beautiful Silk Taffeta with Deep Emerald Green horizontal threads. A matching emerald shimmer solid Silk Taffeta was purchased for trimmings, bias', and other incidentals...oh god i want to make hats!!! The project is the new corset and mystery bottom that i've been thinking about to give me a more appropriate "Day" Steampunk outfit with a bit of class. Most of the costumes this year are going to be geared towards the Steampunk in an effort to have a decent wardrobe for the con in October up in Seattle. The Mystery Bottom is leaning towards reasonably fitted bloomers and maybe fabric covered buttons up the cuff? Who knows! It was a skirt...prior to finding the perfect fabric. I'm just not getting skirt from the voices in the fabric. Planning the stripes to be vertical, instead of Horizontal, and with 60" fabric i think i'll be okie.
Sorry, sketches to follow...
Set Two - The second is a gorgeous Silk in Midnight Blue with Black horizontal thread groups to create small squares on both sides of the fabric. A coordinating Black Silk with small slubs horizontally in the fabric was purchased for contrast, and again...hopefully a hat? This will be in a version of the Past Patterns style #904: 1880's Polonaise with Walking Skirt. The Polonaise will be in the Midnight Blue fabric and i've already started to look up knit and crochet lace patterns. Crochet or knitting lace is a *perfect* NY airplane project, and i've got tons of those in my future! The skirt is totally getting changed to a standard 6 or 8 gore skirt in the black silk and with a large ruffle along the bottom in the same fabric as the Polonaise. Haven't decided if it's two ruffles or just the one will be able to hold the hem line...
Here is an image of the set as is from Past Patterns. Not sure what changes, apart from the skirt, will be made for sure. Planning the stripes to be vertical, instead of Horizontal, and with 60" fabric i think i'll be okie here too.
Set One - The first is a beautiful Silk Taffeta with Deep Emerald Green horizontal threads. A matching emerald shimmer solid Silk Taffeta was purchased for trimmings, bias', and other incidentals...oh god i want to make hats!!! The project is the new corset and mystery bottom that i've been thinking about to give me a more appropriate "Day" Steampunk outfit with a bit of class. Most of the costumes this year are going to be geared towards the Steampunk in an effort to have a decent wardrobe for the con in October up in Seattle. The Mystery Bottom is leaning towards reasonably fitted bloomers and maybe fabric covered buttons up the cuff? Who knows! It was a skirt...prior to finding the perfect fabric. I'm just not getting skirt from the voices in the fabric. Planning the stripes to be vertical, instead of Horizontal, and with 60" fabric i think i'll be okie.
Sorry, sketches to follow...
Set Two - The second is a gorgeous Silk in Midnight Blue with Black horizontal thread groups to create small squares on both sides of the fabric. A coordinating Black Silk with small slubs horizontally in the fabric was purchased for contrast, and again...hopefully a hat? This will be in a version of the Past Patterns style #904: 1880's Polonaise with Walking Skirt. The Polonaise will be in the Midnight Blue fabric and i've already started to look up knit and crochet lace patterns. Crochet or knitting lace is a *perfect* NY airplane project, and i've got tons of those in my future! The skirt is totally getting changed to a standard 6 or 8 gore skirt in the black silk and with a large ruffle along the bottom in the same fabric as the Polonaise. Haven't decided if it's two ruffles or just the one will be able to hold the hem line...
Here is an image of the set as is from Past Patterns. Not sure what changes, apart from the skirt, will be made for sure. Planning the stripes to be vertical, instead of Horizontal, and with 60" fabric i think i'll be okie here too.
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*Drool.*
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