tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148042871757654182024-03-13T09:14:51.581-07:00Diary of a Wandering CostumerDalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-75357359523806746292023-06-19T06:49:00.002-07:002023-06-19T06:49:55.649-07:00Rincewind's luggage<p> After completion of the hat for Rincewind, I decided we needed some representation of T<a href="https://wiki.lspace.org/The_Luggage">he Luggage</a> that follows him. The Luggage is pretty big, but I wanted something that could be carried in stead of pulled behind us with a string. It is just much easier at cons to be able to carry things and not have to avoid hitting people with something pulled. </p><p>I was thinking about a making a wooden box, when I ran across the <a href="https://www.leatherhubpatterns.com/listing/1222221933/mimic-chest-leather-pattern-pdf-by">Mimic chest leather pattern</a> from Leather Hub Patterns. I absolutely love their patterns, they always fit together so well and there is construction video for their patterns if needed. The leather hats (witch and wizard) where also from their patterns. So I purchased the mimic pattern and set about altering it to meet my needs. Some of the alterations were simple, like excluding the horns and eyes since they did not require any changes other than marking out what holes to not cut! Removing the teeth required reshaping the front a little bit and the tongue and the inside detail pieces were reshaped. Adding the feet were harder. The Luggage has lots of feet and they are usually represented as human like. I decided I liked the more clawed version of the mimic chest, but wanted to add at least a few more. I figured I could fit 4 more feet on the bottom pretty easily while still keeping space to hold The Luggage. However, this required pretty significant pattern modifications since the feet for the chest go up the corner sides. So I cut and made the regular foot in craft foam and then played with the pattern till the pieces fit under the chest. I do a lot of my leather pattern development and testing with craft foam. It is cheap but behaves enough like leather to give me a pretty accurate feel for how the pieces will behave. </p><p></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixGmmbvNQN61CVItUWwVKLf4v_B9QeLZe3hbY3KA_11eOa6ZbC-fU8ed7paZtGThQyt0F3KwRXucF1G91myfeC8Gf3uWCKxBOtT2IEZ6IIGTzFYlugZtmKXPXKFg6EgojMuGS9qFIT9_mJyj2xaXm1QmqARE4AH5k0M6DF2tGrLnN1osTlJEawDPbNk3DO/s4080/PXL_20230408_175823954.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixGmmbvNQN61CVItUWwVKLf4v_B9QeLZe3hbY3KA_11eOa6ZbC-fU8ed7paZtGThQyt0F3KwRXucF1G91myfeC8Gf3uWCKxBOtT2IEZ6IIGTzFYlugZtmKXPXKFg6EgojMuGS9qFIT9_mJyj2xaXm1QmqARE4AH5k0M6DF2tGrLnN1osTlJEawDPbNk3DO/s320/PXL_20230408_175823954.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Modifying the leather pattern for the feet<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p>I have always hand punched all my leather with a hammer and a single hand punch, but this pattern has 91 pieces after adding the extra feet! I just could not get through all the punching, my hands and wrists kept hurting so we finally broke down and bought a hand press. The holes went so much faster! </p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilINlxYYRtS0RFVov3hhME6xt2KtZyvHKOURM_dd_S9r-QyrpAqyKZ1r2oTppOrU7AFh2G-m3eT6h6amFREYpLPeNCqeYrVAY94DdByFruUSK_n2VjExu_TeT3a-3YN2PTBc1vij8m6qZxsK6pUPq5n0TnlY72A4iUh8L6BzeDSLkkJxhQgdZ3_ZmrgNyA/s4080/PXL_20230422_195743961.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilINlxYYRtS0RFVov3hhME6xt2KtZyvHKOURM_dd_S9r-QyrpAqyKZ1r2oTppOrU7AFh2G-m3eT6h6amFREYpLPeNCqeYrVAY94DdByFruUSK_n2VjExu_TeT3a-3YN2PTBc1vij8m6qZxsK6pUPq5n0TnlY72A4iUh8L6BzeDSLkkJxhQgdZ3_ZmrgNyA/s320/PXL_20230422_195743961.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My new toy! A leather punch<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiNCi19LkQp2qombTxEO7Upo1ZJrgKu7Fj6NVeJdNwpvS0Q--b5WRdPMuFNtBK_jF4QRS6DjESEAZ7XLo7N20AXfPmYsBO1n52D0hg4F-4BTbU5tjgQ0R7iEERdWSsY_i8Osljf-VXVG5x2XHVIZQssGQy2u4UlgH5pcAZ2JOacYbf-q_B499VjkQjCopz/s4080/PXL_20230423_163030848.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiNCi19LkQp2qombTxEO7Upo1ZJrgKu7Fj6NVeJdNwpvS0Q--b5WRdPMuFNtBK_jF4QRS6DjESEAZ7XLo7N20AXfPmYsBO1n52D0hg4F-4BTbU5tjgQ0R7iEERdWSsY_i8Osljf-VXVG5x2XHVIZQssGQy2u4UlgH5pcAZ2JOacYbf-q_B499VjkQjCopz/s320/PXL_20230423_163030848.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All leather finally punched!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table> Once punched most of the leather required staining. The staining was multilayered to give the leather some texture. The base layer was a very light yellowy brown which I put on with 2 thick coats to get a consistent color. This was then overlaid with a dark brown stain which was streaked on with a brush to give some texture. </p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpYM82z7Vd7pTtBkOtctAtpOKIs3KXBX_07GQ_inTz1wtrHq5xTM4kzGx3TKNKAxbzq0w9M2dd6yF3Lx4sPJzZhRDqIUnlJvfyl-F6Lf7cd9Ue3GBUdefRGDUmbkyffJVv0IsrOG_B9cBgDOHGu5uXWOkUMva7nUNpbPSw-C6v_6yOg3cB4wKYfL7Mo8AS/s4080/PXL_20230513_200101434.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpYM82z7Vd7pTtBkOtctAtpOKIs3KXBX_07GQ_inTz1wtrHq5xTM4kzGx3TKNKAxbzq0w9M2dd6yF3Lx4sPJzZhRDqIUnlJvfyl-F6Lf7cd9Ue3GBUdefRGDUmbkyffJVv0IsrOG_B9cBgDOHGu5uXWOkUMva7nUNpbPSw-C6v_6yOg3cB4wKYfL7Mo8AS/s320/PXL_20230513_200101434.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Staining the leather<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> Next came construction. First I did the feet. You can see the standard feet in the back of this image and the new ones I designed for under the chest in the front. The new ones are shorter and don't have that upper cuff for attachment at the corners.<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7C-WAoFPuZ2M4srrxu7T4WYUgOERST3uR0KEilUtLFXabVcG2kpzSF0c_FEFVsvXTZH_TXKldAj--_oMTzNp-k-KHJ0yQDogJ5MiTchvIaOGe2fsaIFFAVF9Q0aOcMibz1WpmKc7IuqMRuaDD3q1S6CztFoTVf10yKkcRm19Wdr-DRDy401_t-_xpnzWb/s4080/PXL_20230522_032954396.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7C-WAoFPuZ2M4srrxu7T4WYUgOERST3uR0KEilUtLFXabVcG2kpzSF0c_FEFVsvXTZH_TXKldAj--_oMTzNp-k-KHJ0yQDogJ5MiTchvIaOGe2fsaIFFAVF9Q0aOcMibz1WpmKc7IuqMRuaDD3q1S6CztFoTVf10yKkcRm19Wdr-DRDy401_t-_xpnzWb/s320/PXL_20230522_032954396.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">feet!</td></tr></tbody></table><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKuDM-pr_DnvnapK3v2W5p_3HtIPObWnFSOMRs8L7FeY6yldsbLgcJbrq4QDBzJMDjyWopJuWZ7d6rsMcbNQLqQno0uFlx-DjE7y19n_6m8LzA0h0wzW7kdS78KioxAcmOvfOt2WWbYQNJk0X_yptBvUAEbAPv65eC0owu0u9xCp2z1mo2fJFvqyaVPlZw/s4080/PXL_20230602_025717238.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKuDM-pr_DnvnapK3v2W5p_3HtIPObWnFSOMRs8L7FeY6yldsbLgcJbrq4QDBzJMDjyWopJuWZ7d6rsMcbNQLqQno0uFlx-DjE7y19n_6m8LzA0h0wzW7kdS78KioxAcmOvfOt2WWbYQNJk0X_yptBvUAEbAPv65eC0owu0u9xCp2z1mo2fJFvqyaVPlZw/s320/PXL_20230602_025717238.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lid<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Some pieces of the construction were really simple, like the top of the chest. Other parts were pretty tricky, such as the corners and the feet attachment. There were several times that I resorted to a flashlight to see what was going on between the layers when holes did not perfectly line up. While I often dont need them, I am so thankful for the video for this project. There were some unique tricks to getting this pattern together. The video is very clear and made it so much easier to figure out what exactly was going on during construction. This project took me about 3.5 months, but I am happy with the result!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-UEe9F2Bx2Ne61hscWzVEOYAbiesBcJuOk1TPueYfqcKnOcWBt5meKCgsq40_IucnaeimWYiG0tT_W4oK8hKL-WFLeELTrnk6-mHqdOgmwRBE0alkKDS1kRK0zp6dNKyXAKIPshyO0tJWaNRixAuzovM1udCQpDiug8C18kvYsR94D4iV0icLII5z4Si6/s4080/PXL_20230618_035217868.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-UEe9F2Bx2Ne61hscWzVEOYAbiesBcJuOk1TPueYfqcKnOcWBt5meKCgsq40_IucnaeimWYiG0tT_W4oK8hKL-WFLeELTrnk6-mHqdOgmwRBE0alkKDS1kRK0zp6dNKyXAKIPshyO0tJWaNRixAuzovM1udCQpDiug8C18kvYsR94D4iV0icLII5z4Si6/s320/PXL_20230618_035217868.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUvNbWPYlKWhd8N2J7eASlisDOrs-VLGcYotvkxwnIGxaFudLK9cXQIoCH1Wbnk4KzoQoSwuZ0Jp_78O4cKAZVETvOQE1FISyXo3auFZKf61nHASfQ07jBSFnatYn1R6qgT3JM-lMCymAJIyvlJRFUEZlCMGFKuAJJ97hkJ0tl9RWdpHqDHOQlZD2NUSNA/s4080/PXL_20230618_035204438.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUvNbWPYlKWhd8N2J7eASlisDOrs-VLGcYotvkxwnIGxaFudLK9cXQIoCH1Wbnk4KzoQoSwuZ0Jp_78O4cKAZVETvOQE1FISyXo3auFZKf61nHASfQ07jBSFnatYn1R6qgT3JM-lMCymAJIyvlJRFUEZlCMGFKuAJJ97hkJ0tl9RWdpHqDHOQlZD2NUSNA/s320/PXL_20230618_035204438.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhafjOWw9USfTEVkALS0Ts2DCvyGRpFa5YppXe8A5_0jZFlwp1ppkl2rZ4Pf82-qllbJiguIUD29a2YDPwiTDqQLUfPwRKDlJW4iNoK-o8mVx3vppqXHBzRE19s2GTy13Vd9sZhBuWhug3FjdtRm0zek9IeBGMb3fboPlZuot0hz0iJz11gPWVpJSU1GFqO/s4080/PXL_20230618_035153215.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhafjOWw9USfTEVkALS0Ts2DCvyGRpFa5YppXe8A5_0jZFlwp1ppkl2rZ4Pf82-qllbJiguIUD29a2YDPwiTDqQLUfPwRKDlJW4iNoK-o8mVx3vppqXHBzRE19s2GTy13Vd9sZhBuWhug3FjdtRm0zek9IeBGMb3fboPlZuot0hz0iJz11gPWVpJSU1GFqO/s320/PXL_20230618_035153215.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivKwSRfmC_GrKxYXcuJgB5jyJC2kzh2Gi7Vrbq4FUHYyJ-c6-Hi0QjsfwQpiRJhdNy21v1MSPBpX6DGF52-KLh1OLlJrvR_rQpsNlop0_aXDtS5gMlujFWLp9vJo4IpRq2puxCtZN2ri5jZX9o5D23-qoV1Li38WjBpkukLxJskN7QIMm4tvcVYbfrwUHu/s4080/PXL_20230618_035253161.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivKwSRfmC_GrKxYXcuJgB5jyJC2kzh2Gi7Vrbq4FUHYyJ-c6-Hi0QjsfwQpiRJhdNy21v1MSPBpX6DGF52-KLh1OLlJrvR_rQpsNlop0_aXDtS5gMlujFWLp9vJo4IpRq2puxCtZN2ri5jZX9o5D23-qoV1Li38WjBpkukLxJskN7QIMm4tvcVYbfrwUHu/s320/PXL_20230618_035253161.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /> <br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> <br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br />Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-36419122692476745112023-04-22T11:31:00.002-07:002023-04-22T11:31:55.627-07:00Leather witch and wizard hats<p> My husband and I wanted unique hats to wear for cons. He specifically wanted a leather Rincewind hat from the TV miniseries The Color of Magic. I had already made him the robe but he wanted a new hat. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWW4b4ujvGrEKUWjDPMUwximLB8HT7Yzd_-uUlJ1kHtDRbpMprwAq5KBeHht1NAwZsYF1nnqiZVnXP9Tp7L_1dZi4_mv97hbG8JXJ4vEzQ-qcCRf_in_doArtNUO5-eYVtaVt_za7GmObjJkhh4jZ8crQBtM1k1im0tHkLWXDvVu74qkzWwnon_1y9Hw/s600/Rincewind.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="600" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWW4b4ujvGrEKUWjDPMUwximLB8HT7Yzd_-uUlJ1kHtDRbpMprwAq5KBeHht1NAwZsYF1nnqiZVnXP9Tp7L_1dZi4_mv97hbG8JXJ4vEzQ-qcCRf_in_doArtNUO5-eYVtaVt_za7GmObjJkhh4jZ8crQBtM1k1im0tHkLWXDvVu74qkzWwnon_1y9Hw/s320/Rincewind.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rincwind and Twoflower </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>I found a really neat leather hat pattern from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/LeatherHubPatterns" target="_blank">LeatherHub patterns</a> on etsy. This pattern has the strangest looking shapes! Based on the recommendations in the pattern, I used a thin veg tan leather for the base. Once the pieces were all cut they had to be punched. There were so many tiny holes, the punching took significantly longer than the cutting. Once cut and punched, I dyed the leather red and left it to dry for a couple of days.<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJLTeIoAUxoeKLMFlpzDp_Jj8D32FbFXWYr2DqHgCr4TA2PYq1_rjQPzX2AAeG71gDScuhsyoBidtiqPi7Ph1thX9CHfp3fkpNZP2r4526ij5t-ZsYXMojx1DKnCbvWjXfB8qsfzKMu4jSeDpzc0NQoCWVp5zCdO_QQPlMVf8COCufP2jLV5eRw32wwQ/s4080/PXL_20220903_184009333.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJLTeIoAUxoeKLMFlpzDp_Jj8D32FbFXWYr2DqHgCr4TA2PYq1_rjQPzX2AAeG71gDScuhsyoBidtiqPi7Ph1thX9CHfp3fkpNZP2r4526ij5t-ZsYXMojx1DKnCbvWjXfB8qsfzKMu4jSeDpzc0NQoCWVp5zCdO_QQPlMVf8COCufP2jLV5eRw32wwQ/s320/PXL_20220903_184009333.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wizard hat, cut and punched<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqcuhELmGfI1RkCMSvwDpL21SNJOa3QNpd00m421blKYR5Ly-mYmx_v6HsW6qhb4pVx6hwq01Rkjn-EQq84wkv2eWrGIc6LRq5o2ajfAmp_-nLWYHn2Q4odMV9R2kzci2xotfgPC9LpjLk_xWm13qJDB6Fwzmi2oakVJ5jhKWErUqr0jcI-JPJDEsSiQ/s4080/PXL_20220904_143443939.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqcuhELmGfI1RkCMSvwDpL21SNJOa3QNpd00m421blKYR5Ly-mYmx_v6HsW6qhb4pVx6hwq01Rkjn-EQq84wkv2eWrGIc6LRq5o2ajfAmp_-nLWYHn2Q4odMV9R2kzci2xotfgPC9LpjLk_xWm13qJDB6Fwzmi2oakVJ5jhKWErUqr0jcI-JPJDEsSiQ/s320/PXL_20220904_143443939.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wizard hat, dyed red</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><p>LeatherHub patterns has videos to compliment their patterns, which makes it super easy to understand how they go together. The pattern pieces fit perfectly and it went together very easily. I stitched it together with red waxed artificial sinew. <br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIwX619FyAmYAU5olRvAvGznCrBnvhv8hBBcgYgqFmYqzUUbYWpvJ2_btjhaO1RQTfmdiT9_Gvz5LNQ4PVg2eR0OHtTXojzgf7wsIlWFvfnvHhw-kipHPk0MvvRmwMwd1ErT9aH35h2QR8IE6fxEkyc0gBsU00ipt3jPIEmVy37HNy_RqYGKFJy5wizw/s4080/undecorated%20wizard%20hat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIwX619FyAmYAU5olRvAvGznCrBnvhv8hBBcgYgqFmYqzUUbYWpvJ2_btjhaO1RQTfmdiT9_Gvz5LNQ4PVg2eR0OHtTXojzgf7wsIlWFvfnvHhw-kipHPk0MvvRmwMwd1ErT9aH35h2QR8IE6fxEkyc0gBsU00ipt3jPIEmVy37HNy_RqYGKFJy5wizw/s320/undecorated%20wizard%20hat.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wizard hat undecorated</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Once it was finished it needed the word "Wizzard" and a bunch of stars. The text description in the book states some of the stars were falling off, so I did not glue all the corners on all the stars. It also states that the large star on Rincewind's hat is a 7-pointed star, so although the TV show used 5, I went with 7 points on the central star. The stars and letters are cut of a gold patterned leather and glued with leather glue.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5QAnPOJH-iTiQPq3CuTuwzi4DqogcmyHmO2gPpP0Q5SGuKPIDsRiB2E13AYIdbOtZ8Hl3YUQeOBwmzd4o-eEt3JqHglzj9kQCv8iXhQUqRtG8HSVTEabGxOVpbpwXpVyeSAxkrbEbO1ROBqeABvJuN5yWWulOF_jhkgJK8R5YWbKEgTS8tATBR0eJPg/s4080/wizzard%20hat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5QAnPOJH-iTiQPq3CuTuwzi4DqogcmyHmO2gPpP0Q5SGuKPIDsRiB2E13AYIdbOtZ8Hl3YUQeOBwmzd4o-eEt3JqHglzj9kQCv8iXhQUqRtG8HSVTEabGxOVpbpwXpVyeSAxkrbEbO1ROBqeABvJuN5yWWulOF_jhkgJK8R5YWbKEgTS8tATBR0eJPg/s320/wizzard%20hat.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wizzard hat</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>I also made a witch's hat for me using a different LeatherHub pattern, which went together just as easily! For my hat, I dyed it blue, but wanted it to look older, so I underdyed it with some black in streaks first. I then covered the hat with rhinestones before stitching it together. The rhinestones are essentially 2 part snap together rhinestones for leather work that I bought in bulk mixed colors. This makes the hat a bit heavy but really fun to wear. <br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOTNnIB1M25gxIpAQvTjKwVxA8k1-M0nUvwp_F9zD0j2ZiB_YI_aFP3i7Pc69jvX1TfTejg9PvAwzs2gengY8zSP-vSO2YmutAKzOF2NuqgeOAX9pDz_3DUs6hbK8Scos2JxAMb_tEjrddPOnJavtnaPED10C1aw68-0jCazg011F-ViCOva8Nfd_Gcw/s4032/leather%20witch%20hat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOTNnIB1M25gxIpAQvTjKwVxA8k1-M0nUvwp_F9zD0j2ZiB_YI_aFP3i7Pc69jvX1TfTejg9PvAwzs2gengY8zSP-vSO2YmutAKzOF2NuqgeOAX9pDz_3DUs6hbK8Scos2JxAMb_tEjrddPOnJavtnaPED10C1aw68-0jCazg011F-ViCOva8Nfd_Gcw/s320/leather%20witch%20hat.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leather witch's hat<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>I am really finding leatherwork a lot of fun right now and am loving some of the great patterns I am finding online to try out.<br /></p><p></p>Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-11340947235416749122023-04-01T04:52:00.001-07:002023-04-01T04:53:43.453-07:00Tentacle fan and parasol: quick accessories<p> One thing I find I need most at steampunk events is a fan, as the rooms can be very hot. The second most common thing I need is a parasol, since many of our local events involve being outside. So I wanted a matching fan and parasol that would be quick and easy to make, not too expensive and easily replaceable when lost or damaged. So I decided to decorate cheap premade bamboo and fabric fan and parasol with silver and black sharpy. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDa2Z1mAwm-QdXH3xRfWFfoSJ0cyy06uql-HRLCpW2YrPaS88xlUpfVjT7QhQtozUsCKdRa2ce3hk1NeOBrzFtPzciroCDQ9t2wGJJUeaCw6Y4cnXqZJSkIHs-Vt-kk8WK8S56TbxYB8R2OyIjIUNAvD5zLV8F9xJQm4ZlEJPwdMGZKAkGtEHciUdDYw/s4032/IMG_20200229_153340.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDa2Z1mAwm-QdXH3xRfWFfoSJ0cyy06uql-HRLCpW2YrPaS88xlUpfVjT7QhQtozUsCKdRa2ce3hk1NeOBrzFtPzciroCDQ9t2wGJJUeaCw6Y4cnXqZJSkIHs-Vt-kk8WK8S56TbxYB8R2OyIjIUNAvD5zLV8F9xJQm4ZlEJPwdMGZKAkGtEHciUdDYw/s320/IMG_20200229_153340.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgar90gK9EBuWQLQyO9extHrdV_5unh-fHMRcV43UUrPnp7T8vJHrcA06X9IuA9OJ3E-cHsN1C98iCDWm66z8W5aN27BIw8AsmnPXOILti6lfV4Kw2COGOND-PzebQxuOIPaVj7EV_F3VWZmatGX_FDL1kMlFD-dp0xLiU6TJeNCy2u0y0cBypFxOhz3w/s4032/IMG_20190407_195415.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgar90gK9EBuWQLQyO9extHrdV_5unh-fHMRcV43UUrPnp7T8vJHrcA06X9IuA9OJ3E-cHsN1C98iCDWm66z8W5aN27BIw8AsmnPXOILti6lfV4Kw2COGOND-PzebQxuOIPaVj7EV_F3VWZmatGX_FDL1kMlFD-dp0xLiU6TJeNCy2u0y0cBypFxOhz3w/s320/IMG_20190407_195415.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>The sharpy worked pretty well on the fabric surfaces and made a really quick way to decorate a fan and parasol. I was worried these would still be a little plain, so I decided to make a new handle for the parasol, a new topper for the parasol and a decoration for a fan tassel. Keeping with the theme, I used some epoxy sculpt to make some tentacle pieces. I had some brown epoxy sculpt that I figured would make a good base for copper coloring later. I have never worked with epoxy sculpt before and it is really sticky. It also took longer than I expected to get to the stage where it would hold detail. I had to work up the material and then let it sit for a while before molding details. This was very frustrating as I did all the detail to start with and had to redo it after the material set up a bit!<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU5f4Znm6XT0H4cWdDuzhbMH9BrqAHBFsShNRSzKw5xcZgpg4qUc-O64FTbSe5CUw5Z6DEjN_rnoyPCObo9q8hjsA049DpvgsM1DxEGchJgrrI-XBmnLXcGNj-7ymgkt4fyBCK5N6ZvMqYco0in5neiNuUl6KVhtxxOmunkQJC3wmlQoixftiI_qPq0Q/s4032/IMG_20200229_132459.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU5f4Znm6XT0H4cWdDuzhbMH9BrqAHBFsShNRSzKw5xcZgpg4qUc-O64FTbSe5CUw5Z6DEjN_rnoyPCObo9q8hjsA049DpvgsM1DxEGchJgrrI-XBmnLXcGNj-7ymgkt4fyBCK5N6ZvMqYco0in5neiNuUl6KVhtxxOmunkQJC3wmlQoixftiI_qPq0Q/s320/IMG_20200229_132459.jpg" width="240" /></a></div> Once dry however, it took rub-n-buff really well to make a nice copper looking set of decorations.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh0IJV0EH86nt7-F5xB9MzyaAt5wiKezodKwlQVrGkIicKSgJyZmjVHGGiS-E1Vvoc1iQR4C4jukUNAIraX4ykCKmZi10SIjn702-xR2t0z7aslauQtPr9MHYZaBf4VQw1JzGAtWAp2Ere1kDZ5EkUztDFAu_dHR4EDHbOf9WVc2sX--yEEFdsjE5ENw/s4032/IMG_20200229_140140.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh0IJV0EH86nt7-F5xB9MzyaAt5wiKezodKwlQVrGkIicKSgJyZmjVHGGiS-E1Vvoc1iQR4C4jukUNAIraX4ykCKmZi10SIjn702-xR2t0z7aslauQtPr9MHYZaBf4VQw1JzGAtWAp2Ere1kDZ5EkUztDFAu_dHR4EDHbOf9WVc2sX--yEEFdsjE5ENw/s320/IMG_20200229_140140.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>It was really easy to glue the new handle and topper to the parasol, and I think they make the parasol a bit more unique. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHymfofkFCKKM_HmMJGqOwmX-BpBticsjJZn9g3f_zcaK3vDmz_PXL9rWknEbVJUL38E_KJxRgJEzV-llQeemW62dqbqlLLmm8RsG4zRl3HPMQ0aCipMkVRSyOhkptLc6tvuZf9PLunGASA_rM0dyNqO4FGPT-sa-6i4aeEqmKD6AvV86G6ztfd1FHyg/s4032/IMG_20200425_160216.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHymfofkFCKKM_HmMJGqOwmX-BpBticsjJZn9g3f_zcaK3vDmz_PXL9rWknEbVJUL38E_KJxRgJEzV-llQeemW62dqbqlLLmm8RsG4zRl3HPMQ0aCipMkVRSyOhkptLc6tvuZf9PLunGASA_rM0dyNqO4FGPT-sa-6i4aeEqmKD6AvV86G6ztfd1FHyg/s320/IMG_20200425_160216.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU2PmCo1qFOTlWMqDN4169NJ5R70iv0NpZCCXTx4Ki6-yizIjZa_aDrt0jtT6owOqsLRBap6lsRwPSU7T7fIrfDrRYz6Yzoz67lqIXwTJRlpJ3zTfmkpIK5-l7AJ359zfzSACnNBkjqCa7xNkO7DeDPdJD24jUTYl13TKAZsLRBv3rcc9tFkl4SOSuYw/s4032/IMG_20200425_160900.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU2PmCo1qFOTlWMqDN4169NJ5R70iv0NpZCCXTx4Ki6-yizIjZa_aDrt0jtT6owOqsLRBap6lsRwPSU7T7fIrfDrRYz6Yzoz67lqIXwTJRlpJ3zTfmkpIK5-l7AJ359zfzSACnNBkjqCa7xNkO7DeDPdJD24jUTYl13TKAZsLRBv3rcc9tFkl4SOSuYw/s320/IMG_20200425_160900.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>Final details for the fan and parasol was adding a little trim. For the fan, I quickly whip stitched on some black lace and for the parasol, I added some black and silver fringe. These both came from my stash and made a great use of some scrap trim I had laying around. When I sculpted the smaller tentacle above, I used a straw to make a hole so the tentacle could be threaded on a ribbon to add to the fan handle. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha35khuzRwF9rZLub6-BN-yJ1pvrQFn8PDhpOMkVpKibLOni1Fd6gyb6p-fGqm0i3VwGmWJu9zGhNU2YiCDsuKHKZCzjKEFe6qguV7L5vZc6vtkrP8arVkLw1G4HKKKE0VUyPXJsnXDznVYOmwZ7uC2er2g9yBQuRToyTLJ56Td5ZGZAIEv0zZ7RqM0g/s4032/IMG_20200425_155422.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha35khuzRwF9rZLub6-BN-yJ1pvrQFn8PDhpOMkVpKibLOni1Fd6gyb6p-fGqm0i3VwGmWJu9zGhNU2YiCDsuKHKZCzjKEFe6qguV7L5vZc6vtkrP8arVkLw1G4HKKKE0VUyPXJsnXDznVYOmwZ7uC2er2g9yBQuRToyTLJ56Td5ZGZAIEv0zZ7RqM0g/s320/IMG_20200425_155422.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh6cFi4s0esVJcPzbftWcKc2Z5GRaH7acVQ9eYmayaMDa0V4GcZZWyuAuVHBnMPNBZLmXHSDpViezZnln4n6k_YetecxuhVel16bDOa0qBMRP5b2N1J8wmKeeICxHgFIIBrS--n37i8QjvkXo9303IZEb8vq2gPxDoSKb6G2MAYnFdj1zdr-IrCAXrbQ/s4032/IMG_20200425_160154.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh6cFi4s0esVJcPzbftWcKc2Z5GRaH7acVQ9eYmayaMDa0V4GcZZWyuAuVHBnMPNBZLmXHSDpViezZnln4n6k_YetecxuhVel16bDOa0qBMRP5b2N1J8wmKeeICxHgFIIBrS--n37i8QjvkXo9303IZEb8vq2gPxDoSKb6G2MAYnFdj1zdr-IrCAXrbQ/s320/IMG_20200425_160154.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>These items were pretty quick to make and get a surprising amount of use! I am always in need of a fan or a parasol and since these were relatively cheap, I dont worry too much about losing them or breaking them.<br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-82450393924782106042019-09-29T14:41:00.000-07:002019-09-29T14:41:47.086-07:00Labyrinth Masquerade Ball 2019This year I got to attend the Labyrinth Masquerade Ball in LA. This event is beyond phenomenal, the cast did an amazing job of creating multiple wonderful worlds, the entertainment was top notch and the costumes were to die for (I seriously recommend checking out the pictures on the <a href="https://labyrinthmasquerade.com/" target="_blank">website</a> or facebook). The whole event felt so immersive. We opted to attend the preshow, where you tour through the space with various cast members. This was very worth it, the cast members were amazing and worked hard to orient the new people and to show you some of the unique things for the event. We also attended the tea, which was amazing in both food and unique teas designed specifically for the event. I did take at least some pictures, so here are a selection from this magical event.<br />
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First, here is our outfits for the first night taken before we headed down to the ball.<br />
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There were so many amazing costumes, I captured only a handful of them, but here are some of my favorites we got to see first hand. However, just looking at the facebook photos, we missed so many amazing costumes in the crowd! I highly recommend this event for the sheer love of costume and hope to go again some day!<br />
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<br />Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-23787472967847322792019-09-07T13:16:00.001-07:002019-09-07T13:16:04.886-07:00Glinda the Good Witch; LED SkirtOut of this whole costume the skirt took the longest simply due to the fact that I really wanted it to light up and stitching tons of LED wires by hand is really really slow.<br />
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The skirt is 2 layers, the bottom layer is smooth, pink, pearlized, sheer fabric. It is a basic A-line cut gathered into a pink elastic waist band. The simple cut let me stitch LED strings all over this base skirt. The <a href="https://www.adafruit.com/product/1260" target="_blank">LEDs are Flora RGB neopixels</a> from Adafruit, these can produce full 24-bit color, are ultra-bright, can be chained together and can respond rapidly to programmed instructions. Each stand in the skirt is 8 Flora neopixels strung together with clear wire and there are 8 strands. You can use conductive threads for these, but the loss in conductivity over the length of the skirt would be too much, so for this size project, I used wire. Once wired, I stitched the LED strands to the skirt. The stitching pattern was random and the strands were designed to have different spacing between the LEDs to make it a little more organic looking.<br />
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The wiring all runs to a pouch under the bustled overskirt which is high enough that I don't sit on it, but low enough that it is not under the corset. The Arduino controller and the LiPo batteries are held in this pouch. <br />
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The overskirt is much fuller than the underskirt and is made of crinkled, pink, pearlized, sheer fabric. The overskirt is floor length in the front and slightly longer in the back to allow the skirt to be bustled slightly by tapes in the back (you can see 2 of the white ribbon tapes for the bustle in the pouch photo). The ruffle at the bottom of the skirt goes all the way around the skirt. To the front of the skirt, I cut out gear shapes in random shiny fabrics I had laying around. These fabrics were gifted to me and were 1/8 yard strips in 16 colors, I used all the pink tones for this skirt. These two fabrics (the pearlized sheer and the slippery shiny stuff) were horrible to sew and every attempt I had to applique this stuff failed, so the gears are glued on with fabric glue.<br />
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To the back, I added a couple of elements to enhance the bustle, these were based on 1860s fashions were you start to see extra stuff down the back, but the skirts still have fairly round hoop support. The added bits are pretty free form, there are several layers of basically quarter circles with trim added to the back.<br />
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The arduino in the skirt allows the LEDs to have several programs that the skirt cycles through every 30 seconds. The first is a red raindrop effect, the second one is a blue snow shower effect and the last one is a rainbow blinking effect.<br />
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<br />Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-79393984285179636902019-09-02T20:33:00.001-07:002019-09-07T13:16:23.792-07:00Steampunk Glinda the Good Witch: corsetNormally I prefer to make my own corsets, since they always fit better if they are made specifically to your measurements and bespoke corsets out of my price range. However, for this outfit, I needed to get the corset done quickly and did not have a pattern than fit the bill. So I bought one cheaply from Corset Story. Their waist taming corset line allows a 5 inch reduction and are reasonably comfortable. The one I bought was a white satin one intended for weddings, but I really wanted pink.<br />
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The corset satin is polyester, but with the new Idye poly dyes I figured I could get at least a light pink from the white satin. I did not have a pot big enough to keep the heat high (as per the dye instructions) so I boiled the dye and then poured it into a plastic tub and dropped the corset into the heated dye. Since the corset would not be in hot dye for the required time, I bought fuschia dye and hoped for the best. I then swished the corset in the dye until it cooled (about 10 minutes) and rinsed it out with cold water. The inside of the corset was cotton and turned the same fuschia as advertised. The outside of the corset turned a pale pink, basically the color of my pointe shoes as a girl. The corset lace did not dye at all evenly, so I bought gross grain ribbon and replaced the lacing. Interestingly, the corset is pretty color fast. I have worn this corset and danced in it for several hours and it doesn't transfer on to me or onto my white corset liner. <br />
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Once the corset was dyed, I stitched gears all over it and then attacked the corset with rhinestones for bling and little pink skull studs. I decided to use hot fix stones, which do not recommend...... For one, any small slip with the heated tool melted the polyester satin and there are several burn marks from this. Second, not all of the stones adhered well, so I have to re-glue some of the stones periodically. Third, the tool would periodically get too hot and I would have to stop to cool it down or risk burning my fingers just holding the tool. Use of E6000 like on the crown would have been better.<br />
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However, I am happy with the shiny results.<br />
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<br />Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-21804215204943616852019-08-10T21:13:00.000-07:002019-09-07T13:16:35.733-07:00Steampunk Glinda the Good Witch: crownI am basing this costume (loosely at least) on the original Glinda the Good Witch from the Wizard of Oz movie, so I needed a crown. Looking at images of Glinda the Good Witch showed me that her crown is basically as tall as her head! So that meant I needed to create a really tall crown pattern. I basically messed around with butcher paper until I had something I liked. <br />
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I know it is hard to get a guess on size off a picture, but the crown pattern is very tall. The crown in 6.25 inches tall for the base and 11.5 inches tall to the top of the points.<br />
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I am going to apologize now, this next part gave me quite a bit of trouble and I forgot to take pictures of the construction. Since this is a steampunk rendition, I decided the crown should be made of metal, and preferably copper or brass colored. I also wanted it to be lightweight so it wouldn't hurt to wear. I decided to use decorative sheet metal from the hardware store, it has a cloverleaf pattern punched in the sheet metal and a bronze color (<a href="https://www.lowes.com/pd/M-D-24-in-x-12-in-Bronze-Sheet-Metal-Siding-Trim/999959597" target="_blank">link </a>to what I purchased). One thing to note, the bronze color is only on the surface, I found this out when I used a wire brush on my Dremel to clean up the flux from soldering. Once cut, this sheeting is really easy to shape and bend into the crown shape. We then soldered the crown closed in the back using a piece of brass to strengthen the crown (this stuff is really really pliable on its own). Since the metal was a bit sharp, I edged the bottom with leather both inside and out.<br />
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The leather looked kinda plain, and the original crown is really pretty decorated, so I grabbed some rhinestones and went to town.<br />
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Here is the finished crown. The weld in the back is pretty ugly (see the last picture), this stuff was not the easiest to solder. Other than the back seam, I am pretty pleased with the crown, as it is really lightweight and comfortable. My only concern now is how I will manage to fly with it to the event so I can actually wear it!<br />
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<br />Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-49272232526273278212019-08-04T16:39:00.001-07:002019-09-07T13:16:47.353-07:00Steampunk Glinda the Good Witch Hoop Skirt<br />
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My husband and I are planning to attend the Labyrinth Masquerade Ball this year and are in need of costumes. Since time is short and there is not time to do a completely new costume, I am trying to finish up a costume I started a few years ago, a Steampunk Glinda the Good Witch. This costume was wearable, but very unfinished, so this is a good opportunity to finish it up.<br />
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The first issue is that the hoop skirt I originally made for it is 1 inch wide steel bands riveted to leather. While this is really fun to wear, it wont fit in the suitcase as it doesn't fold or bend at all.<br />
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To get a hoop that can fly with me, I purchased a cheap bridal hoop. This hoop can be folded up to fit in a suitcase, but is made out of something that feels like a cheap tent......<br />
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The overskirt to this dress is actually sheer so the hoop will show at
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I made a bunch of strips of the sheer stripe to make ruffles and strips of the PVC to cover the hoops. The hoops were then suspended from ribbons hung from the waist band. This hoop was pretty simple to make but very very time consuming. The PVC is absolutely nasty to sew on, it sticks to the foot of my machine. I have heard there are special feet that can handle this stuff, but none of the ones I have did a good job, so I resorted to the old tried and true method. I covered the PVC with thin tissue paper, stitched through the tissue paper and then tore it off the seams when finished.<br />
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Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-72397194579014230742019-06-01T06:02:00.000-07:002019-06-01T06:02:22.540-07:00Women's dress 13th century: saya encordada and pellote creationThe first piece I needed to create was the underdress with red and blue embroidered sleeves. I decided to do a wider saya encordada and pellote through the chest area based on the saya encordada and pellote of Leonor of Castilla, rather than the lady from the Book of Games. Since the chest area is covered with the wider saya, I did not continue the embroidery onto the bodice. This also helped with the amount of time needed to create the underdress as I only had 2 weeks to complete the whole outfit! I wanted the embroidery to be geometric, as the embroidery in the manuscript image also appeared geometric. I searched the web for simple embroideries that might have come from the rough time frame from Spain and did not come up with anything I could do quickly or simply. I broadened my search and found a lovely set of embroidery charts made from extant items by the talented Miriam bat Shimeon. These are middle eastern and many of them are Egyptian, but the look was right for 2 color geometric. Here is a link to her <a href="https://awalimofstormhold.wordpress.com/embroidery-charts/" target="_blank">website</a> with her amazing charts. I used two of her charts<br />
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The embroidery actually went really fast and I am pleased with the overall look. Samples from Egypt may be a stretch for Spanish dress, but I felt they were good enough for my needs and fit the look I was going for.<br />
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The underdress is rectangular construction made linen. The internal seams were machine sewn due to time constraints but I had sewed the hems of the neck and sleeves since they show.<br />
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The next part was the saya encordada, thankfully this dress has lots of information readily available online. The seam lines have been drawn by Marc Carlson (<a href="http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/cloth/isabel.html" target="_blank">here</a>), making pattern drafting really easy. The gown is made of faux silk, as I had it on hand. The lacing was done as described in the previous post, I hand stitched ribbon to the inside of the gown with channels to allow lacing. The original was laced with cord, but I used ribbon, as I had it on hand. The bodice of my saya encordada is hand sewn and self lined to the hips.<br />
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Overall, I am pretty pleased with this outfit. Unfortunately, I do not have any pictures of me wearing it. I did not get much of a chance to wear it, as my cat was in the ICU the day of the event (he has since fully recovered).<br />
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<br />Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-16549650754332179022019-05-25T16:31:00.000-07:002019-05-25T16:31:06.347-07:00Women's dress 13th century: Saya encordada and pellote planningI planned on attending a Midwinter feast in December, the theme of which was in the 13th Century and Spanish. The actual theme was Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, 1212. In searching for a dress I wanted to create, I was loose with the date, as I fell in love with Leonor de Castilla's underdress and over dress, which are dated 1244. <br />
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Here underdress, the saya encordada, was very fitted, laced up one side and made of beautiful brocade.<br />
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A lovely link from Jessamyn's Closet shows the <a href="http://jessamynscloset.com/Lenore.html" target="_blank">lacing detail</a> from the Saya Encordada demonstrating that the side lacing cord is run through a tape stitched to the inside of the opening. <br />
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Her pellote was also of a beautiful brocade and is sideless. The brocade on this gown is amazing.<br />
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Unfortunately, I had no luck finding anything similar that I could get in time for the event (or in my price range). So I had to come up a plan B.<br />
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A friend of mine told me about <i><b>Libro de los Juegos</b></i>, ("Book of games"), commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile and dated 1283. The pages of the <a href="http://games.rengeekcentral.com/tcintro.html" target="_blank">Book of Games</a> are available online and browsing through them I saw a number of women in the same style of dress. One of them really caught my eye.<br />
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The lady appears to be wearing a white underdress with red and blue embroidery on the sleeves and probably on the bodice. Over this, she is wearing a red saya encordada and a blue sideless gown. She appears to have a pink cloak on as well. These more simple solid color fabrics were possible in the 2 weeks I had to sew an outfit! <br /><br />Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-54465072786757617722019-01-13T19:52:00.002-08:002019-05-25T16:33:25.000-07:00Steampunk Tiki at Gaslight Gathering 2018Here are a couple of pictures of the full outfit as worn at the con with my husband and a good friend. It was so much fun to attend this con again with a couple of friends, this con is so friendly and always a lot of fun. <br />
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<br />Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-90284757299616815922019-01-01T21:03:00.001-08:002019-05-25T16:32:50.391-07:00Steampunk Tiki Part 4: A large knifeIn the Diablo game, the fetishes run at you with giant knives. The effect in the game is actually kind of terrifying and exactly the inspiration for the Steampunk Tiki, therefore I needed a giant knife. I wanted the knife to look handmade and made in a jungle type area, so specifically not modern steel. I decided that the knife blade should look like flint knapped obsidian. While I have flint knapped previously, I am not great at it and it does create really shape knives. Since this is for cosplay, I wanted the knife to look flint knapped but be dull so as to not harm people around me. I decided on resin casting for the blade. To create the mold, I first made paper clay blades halves. I then poured 2 part silicon rubber mold material over the top. <br />
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Pouring over the top was a bad idea, while this is what the instructions recommended, the paper clay is too light and floated within the silicon rubber. I should have pressed the knife halves into the top of the molding material so they didn't float. Due to this mistake, the molds were very deep, and far deeper than the blade needed to be.<br />
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Once the mold was complete, I made a big batch of resin and cast the two halves. Once they were set, I then used a small batch of resin to stick the two halves together. You can see how the edges dont quite match on the two molds in the image below. You can also see how dull the surface turned out due to the roughness of the paper clay. <br />
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To clean up the surface, I first used a Dremel and a belt sander to grind the edges even and clean up any odd cuts or bumps. Then to give the blade a shiny finish, I added a fresh coat of clear resin to the entire blade. To do so without having to lay the blade down, I hung the blade to allow both sides to be covered at once. I did not have anything fancy to hand the blade with, so I used a cheap clamp, some string and stick from my yard. The stick was then stuck on the shelves in my front sun-room. It actually took several layers of resin, with 24hr dry time in between to the finish I wanted.<br />
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I also added an LED into the blade at the top. To set in the LED, I drilled into the blade where it would meet the handle. The hole was drilled slightly larger than the blade and then I used resin to bond the LED to the blade (the wires are sticking out of the top of the blade in the hanging picture). Unfortunately, I accidentally used blue pigment instead of dye so the blade is not clear enough for the LED to have much effect.<br />
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The remainder of the parts were a gear from a bike, a couple of pipe fittings and a big copper pipe.<br />
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The copper pipe had two square cuts made a dremel to allow the blade to sit into the pipe and allow me to add cross lacing with leather to make the blade look tied in with leather. The pipe fittings were chosen to allow the electronics (switch, battery and wires) for the LED to be kept in the pipe but still allow easy access. The larger fitting was epoxied onto the end of the pipe and the smaller fitting can be screwed into the larger fitting allowing access to the stuff inside the pipe. To use the gear as a pommel, we needed to cut it. The dremel was actually able to cut the bike gear, although there were lots of sparks and great need for eye and skin protection. The broken gear was then glued and wired into the smaller pipe fitting.<br />
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Finally, the I covered the pipe with some scrap leather to make holding the knife more pleasant and added the decorative lacing that 'holds' the blade in place. In actuality the blade is epoxied in place. <br />
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Other than using pigment instead of dye, which caused the LED to be less functional than I would like, I am pleased with the knife overall and certainly learned a lot!<br />
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<br />Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-53548042923575543312018-12-27T21:29:00.000-08:002018-12-27T21:29:09.290-08:00Steampunk Tiki Part 3: Skull on a Stick StaffAs part of the evil fetish tiki, I envisioned the skull of an aviator from the airship crash stuck on a staff. This was a very easy prop to make and utilized many cheaply bought parts. First I bought a cheap plastic skull, realistic looking plastic eyeballs, cheap googles and a very cheap aviator's hat. We also purchased some UV LEDs, a switch and a battery pack.<br />
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The googles were a basic silver color, so we spray painted them red to give them a bit of color. To make it look like they had been in a crash, we hit one eye piece with a quick burst of black spray paint to simulate damage. <br />
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We drilled two holes through the skull that would fit a long wooden staff we had lying around. The holes were drilled so the staff would go directly up through the center.</div>
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We then cut out holes in the eye sockets to allow the addition of lights later and glued some plastic eyeballs into the eye sockets. These eyeballs are half globes, not full globes. Since the aviator's cap needed a hole in it as well, I bought a really cheap costume one online. It is very synthetic and would probably be terrible to wear, but for the skull it was perfect.</div>
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To add a bit of a creepy factor to the skull, we cut a hatch in the back to allow the addition of electronics within the skull.</div>
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We then added UV LED lights behind the eyeballs. The lights, switch and battery pack fit neatly in the skull and the UV LEDs shine right through the eyeballs.</div>
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<br />Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-90336739392459092932018-12-25T18:48:00.000-08:002018-12-25T18:48:28.426-08:00Steampunk Tiki Part 2: The MaskAfter creating a simple dress and vest, the most important part was the giant Tiki mask. Since I wanted it to be very big, but not too heavy, I settled on foam for the base. I have never made a prop with foam before, so this was certainly a learning experience.<br />
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The easiest part was creating a paper pattern. I simply drew out what I wanted. <br />
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Once the pattern was done, I cut out a backing piece and each decorative piece out of EVA foam floor mats (the grey colored foam) and thinner teeth out of craft foam. To allow myself to see, I cut out the inside of the whites of the eyes from the base mat. The pieces were then bonded together with Barge's cement. Note: this stuff stinks and must be done in a well ventilated place!<br />
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Once the glue had set, I contoured the overlay pieces with a Dremel tool. This step made a complete mess of the shop, and required safety googles and filter mask. To create the wood grain, I followed an awesome Youtube tutorial from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5lN3iFxQ_s&t=2s" target="_blank">Craft Alchemist</a>. I drew wood grain on the foam with a sharpie (Note to self, dont use red if any of the painting is white.....)<br />
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After drawing on the wood grain, you make a ton of tiny slices in the foam matching the wood grain lines. It looked like nothing was happening with the slices, in fact they were basically invisible. I then heated the foam with a hot air gun and the slashes opened up creating a grain texture.<br />
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To seal the foam and allow the foam to be painted, the mask was coated with 3 coats plastidip spray.<br />
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The mask was then painted with basic acrylic paints. It took 4-6 coats
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Next, I added glued 4 nails to the inside top of the mask and stabilized the nails with a second layer of EVA mat foam. The bones are cheap leg and arm bones from a Halloween skeleton from the craft store are then glued onto the nails. I then wrapped cheap twine around the bones at 4 different heights, using glue to keep the twine stable on the slippery plastic bones. This formed a framework to support the fake ferns. I then wove the fake ferns through the twine and glued the stems to the top of the mask.<br />
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To keep the mask on my head, I used leather straps glued to the mask back. Since the mask is so flat, I had to add a piece of foam to move the mask out from my face. The strapping goes around my forehead, not at eye level.<br />
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Here is what the mask looks like worn and with the staff and knife, which I will cover in the next two posts. There were so many steps to the mask that required drying overnight that while the mask was started first, the other two props went much faster!<br />
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<br />Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-29255724217697914102018-12-24T12:02:00.000-08:002018-12-24T12:02:04.370-08:00Steampunk Tiki Part 1: plans and dressThis year, Gaslight Steampunk Expo had a theme of Tikipunk. I really loved this idea, however, instead of thinking tropical shirts, I was reminded of the evil fetishes in Diablo who used to run at you with creepy masks and big knives.<br />
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Basically I thought what would happen if a Airship crashed and found the natives aggressive rather than friendly. To portray this, I decided my Tiki fetish would use bones and bits from the crash to create a scary Tiki. The bones would be used to create the top of the mask, the skull, googles and aviators googles would be used in a staff and a gear and pipes would form part of the mask. <br />
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First I needed a simple dress. I used some basic cotton gauze the make a sheath dress. The edges are blanket stitched for decoration. I used some scrap monk's cloth to create the fringed edging and knotted it to make a netting simple pattern. In keeping with the found bits for decoration, I used some small gears and paula shell for fringe decoration.<br />
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Once I put the dress on, it felt too plain. I decided to make a quick lace up vest out of some scrap leather. This leather has a embossed scale pattern and a coppery color. There was not enough to use a single piece for the front panels, so I stitched pieces together decoratively. <br />
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The dress and vest took less than a week and were by far the easiest part of this costume. The hardest part was the vest, the embossing and the copper coating made the leather really hard to punch through, yet it was still thin enough that setting the grommets was a pain. <br /><br />
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<br />Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-8642949207603356592017-08-04T16:08:00.000-07:002017-08-04T16:08:43.781-07:00Cthulhu for President, making of some cultists robes and masksI am sorry I have been so neglectful of this blog, I got a new job in January and the adjustment has been slow. The new job is taking almost all of my free time, although I do love it! I have only managed one costume set and one costume event since starting the new job and that was a set of cultist robes, masks, tentacle fingers and campaign signs. You see the theme for Wild Wild West Con was Cthulhu for President 2017. I figured if Cthulhu was running for President there would need to be some cultists running around. <br />
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The robes are really very simple shapes basically just long sleeved robes with hoods. I did not use a pattern for these but Meiljolie of All Things Crafty has a very <a href="http://mieljolie.blogspot.com/2016/09/monk-robe-pattern-with-hooded-cowl.html" target="_blank">good pattern</a> on her site. The robes are made of red linen and appliqued with tentacles in black linen. To the left is one of the hoods. The tentacles were designed free-form to ensure that the robes would each be unique. There are tentacles around the hem, the cuffs and the face opening in both my robe and my husband's robe.<br />
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Next we needed some masks with tentacles. I modified the plague doctor leather mask pattern I used for the<a href="http://wanderingdalbeth.blogspot.com/2015/10/leather-steampunk-masks.html" target="_blank"> Poison Doctor and Sugar Skull masks</a> to create two different looks. For the first one, I shorted the beak and added 2 circular vents. I also cut tentacles along the bottom edge of both face pieces and added a tentacle to the bottom the nose ridge. You can see the cut piece to the left.<br />
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I used very light weight leather, 3 oz, so I could shape the tentacles. The tentacles were shaped with warm water by hand. Below you can see one face piece without shaping and one with the tentacles shaped. <br />
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After shaping, the mask was dyed green, the vents were riveted on as seen to the left. The vents are cut from brass screen. The mask was sewn together with heavy duty thread and the eyes and straps riveted on after sewing the mask together. The eyes were made by doming copper screen<br />
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I wanted the two masks to look completely different, so I spent more time playing with the pattern for the second mask. Unfortunately, I got so distracted making the mask, I did not take any pictures of the construction. Basically I cut off the nose from the first cultist pattern and added a triangle shaped piece to the front to fill the created hole. I then added tentacles to this piece and a triangle shaped vent. The shaping, dyeing and construction were done the same way as the previous mask. <br />
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Here is a picture of the robe and mask one together and my husband's giant wooden hand he was working on.<br />
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The slogans of "Why Vote for a Lesser Evil" were printed on both signs. However, my husband wanted "Make America Green Again" and I wanted "Answer the Call." So the signs are slightly different.<br />
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Next, I wanted tentacle fingers. I used some plastic finger puppets and some scrap leather to make over gloves to hold the finger puppets onto my fingers while letting me retain motion. Finally, I wanted some harnesses that would allow me to carry around some <a href="https://www.tentaclekitty.com/" target="_blank">Tentacle Kitty Little Ones</a> for more tentacle goodness.<br />
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Here are a couple of pictures from the event. <br />
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We had so much fun as cultists we wore the outfits 2 days out 3 of the event. The other day we pulled out the Dia de Muertos and the Plague Doctor outfits.<br />
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<br />Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-37715115683427708732016-12-31T18:17:00.000-08:002016-12-31T18:17:34.762-08:00HSM December: Special Occasion<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Now that it is December, I regret how few of the Historical Sew Monthly Challenges I managed to do. They always help me push my boundaries and get something actually done! This December challenge was no different. Our local SCA Barony was having a Midwinter feast set in 14th century Italy. I had originally planned to just wear something 16th century that I already had. Then a friend challenged me to join him wearing 14th century and I remembered that I could use this for HSM December! So this was a perfect fit! <br />
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First I did some research and decided I loved the gown on the lady on the right in this image. This image is a detail shot of a fresco by Giovanni da Milano in the Rinuccini Chapel in Santa Croce, Florence. This fresco depicts the Life of the Virgin and this detail is from the birth of the Virgin panel. Giovanni da Milano was active from 1345-1369 and this fresco is dated 1365. I absolutely love the leaf detail down the front of the gown! However, I quickly decided I needed to use fabric I already owned as I already have a sizable stash. So this eliminated a true copy as I have no white wool. I did have some tropical weight blue/gray wool gabardine however, so I threw it in the washer and the dryer to felt it up a bit. While the wool was washing and felting, I drafted a quick kirtle pattern and a quick leaf pattern. I then cut the gown and sleeves from the wool and used the leaf pattern <a href="http://cottesimple.com/tutorials/how-to-sew-medieval-buttonhole/" target="_blank">La Cotte Simple</a> and was fairly happy with how they came out! The then used the remaining silk for straight cut binding for the cuffs and collar of the gown. I did this for 2 reasons, one there appears to be some binding at these points in the fresco and two, I have a skin reaction to wool so I wanted to bind the places that might touch around my underdress and shift. The straight binding does not behave nicely on the neckline however, so I will need to fix this in the future!<br />
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Cutting the leaves was a bit tedious, but the effect was worth it! I then searched the stash for a color of silk or wool that would contrast nicely with the blue/gray wool and found some cream colored silk satin left over from an old project. There was not enough to cut the front panels in a single piece so I had to piece the front. Due to the detail of the leaves, I had to hand sew the wool to the silk. I was not sure if the leaves would have been sewn down or left free, so I decided to leave them free. I also decided to add a front closure, as I am usually dressing myself! I used small round metal buttons and hand made buttonholes. Hand done buttonholes make me really nervous, but I felt machine buttonholes would look terrible down the front of a dress like this. Since I had never hand sewn buttonholes from this time period before, I used the tutorial from <br />
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For headwear, I wanted something more than what the lady in the fresco was wearing so I spent some time looking and some favorite blogs of mine for ideas. I decided I wanted a St. Brigitta's cap with embroidery and a D-shaped veil after looking a <a href="https://katafalk.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Katafalk</a>. I am not going to post any in progress picks on these two since they basically followed tutorials from Katafalk, Cathrin has a wonderful guide to<a href="https://katafalk.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/different-shapes-of-veils/" target="_blank">veil shapes</a> and instructions for both a <a href="https://katafalk.wordpress.com/2014/01/16/st-birgittas-cap/" target="_blank">plain</a> and a <a href="https://katafalk.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/embroidered-st-birgittas-cap/" target="_blank">fancy</a> St. Brigitta's cap. I did simplify the insertion stitch since my thread turned out to be too thick for the fancy stitch Cathrin did. I also altered the band embroidery just because I felt like it.<br />
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Here are some images of the full outfit and one event picture! I really enjoyed this style and will likely make more in the future. I also really want a frilled veil!<br />
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<br />Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-29046647742013039812016-12-26T09:32:00.000-08:002016-12-26T09:32:35.379-08:00Alexia Maccon Cosplay Part V: The cape<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Alexia wears this very cute little shoulder cape with her floating dress. Looking at the cover, it appears to have a fancy closure at the neck, either applique or embroidery down the front, some sort of fluffy trim around the bottom and a standing collar. The cape is also a fairly dark shade of blue. Searching many fabric stores I could not find any silk that matched this color, so I settled on a blue poly satin. <br />
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The design on Alexia's cape looked almost like velvet to me, but I was dreading doing the velvet applique and running out of time! So I used heat set flocking material. The idea for this did not come from me, but rather from a blogger I love, Fresh Frippery and her <a href="https://freshfrippery.com/category/lady-tremaine/" target="_blank">Lady Tremaine dress</a>. She used this same flocking to add the lovely accents to her Lady Temaine gown (seriously this gown is amazing)! She used a Silhouette machine to cut out her appliques, I don't own one of these but found this stuff just as easy to work with without the machine. I designed the appliques then drew them onto the plastic backing of the flocking material. The designs were then cut out and the backing material removed by hand. The designs were then ironed on (using a cloth to cover the designs). Once attached the front covering was removed and I was left velvet like appliques! The only down side I have found is that the flocking picks up sooo much cat hair and fuzz! I am forever cleaning them up!<br />
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The closure is a false closure made of a fancy button bought at the fabric store and stitched to a straight piece of the satin (lined and interlined for strength). The cape actually closes with hidden hook and eyes.<br />
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I also added and applique to the back, I dont see one in the reference images but I wanted to add something here. You can also see that the satin stretched and I added 2 small pleats to the back to allow it to fit the collar. The collar is a simple standing collar, cut to fit my neck measurement. <br />
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Here is the front of the finished cape, forgive my messing sewing room backdrop! The only thing I have left for this costume is the parasol. While I did get the parasol to usable before the event, there are still some details I would like to add to really make it match the cover. I hope to finish this up shortly and will post about it when I do!Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-41418591412494048132016-12-25T21:22:00.002-08:002016-12-26T09:10:25.841-08:00Alexia Maccon cosplay Part IV: The bodiceSorry about the really long gap between the bodice and skirt postings, I swear I did not forget, I just got really busy!<br />
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Looking at the cover image, the bodice has embroidery on the front panel, and black detail between the front panel and the side front panels. In the case of the cover image, there is embroidery both at the top and the bottom of the front panel (not always true inside the book). The sleeves are split open, with lace showing from underneath and with black bows facing up the arm and away from the cuff.<br />
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Looking at various black and white images in the book itself, the bodice is often shown with the side front matching the odd drapes on the skirt and different from the front panel. Since I was low on the blue silk from the skirts, I decided to use the silk Dupioni for the main parts of the bodice (sleeves, bodice back and sides) and the remainder of the blue smooth silk for the bodice front. <br />
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I then had to decide what pattern to use for the bodice. Looking at the length of the bodice and basic lines, I decided to alter one of my favorite Truly Victorian patterns, the tail bodice pattern. I love the way the back looks in this pattern and felt it would compliment the skirt well. I was also very easy, due to the dart placement, to make the bodice front into a separate piece. I did decide to remove the collar entirely, due to the presence of the cape. I did a quick mock up and made the pattern alterations and was ready to go. The sleeves I made much tighter. I usually have to tighten the sleeves on Truly Victorian patterns anyway, but I wanted these to be so tight that the sleeve would want to open up at that split and show the lace underneath.<br />
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I then very carefully, and with much squinting at the front cover, designed embroidery that I felt replicated the pattern on the front of Alexia's bodice close enough. Here is the embroidery I decided on. I then flat-lined the silk as it was so thin, I was worried it would not lay flat for the embroidery. Once flat lined, I embroidered the front of the bodice with black silk floss.<br />
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I was now ready to put the bodice together, other than adding the front panel, with black silk piping and altering the sleeves, I followed the instructions from the Truly Victorian Pattern. The sleeves were lined in blue cotton and the bottom 6 inches (until just above the slit) was lined in more blue dupioni. A false cuff of lace was then added to the inside of the sleeve. The white lace was gathered onto a cotton false cuff. Only the bottom row of lace goes all the way around the false cuff, the rest of the lace is gathered only into the area that would be shown by the slit. Here is a close up of the sleeve to give you and idea of the lace placement. <br />
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Finally, here are some images of the finished bodice! Sorry for the slightly wonky photos, the bodice does not fit on the larger dress dummy at the bust (no squish......) and it hangs on my smaller dummy. Oh, and I learned something I truly detest doing, self fabric covered buttons! The buttons are all covered in the thin silk fabric. This fabric shredded easily and made making self covered buttons a true pain, however I think the look nice and am glad a persevered and finished them. Thank you all for reading and let me know if you have any questions! <br />
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Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-85303524897325665522016-10-24T19:36:00.002-07:002016-10-24T19:36:47.141-07:00Alexia Maccon cosplay Part III: The skirt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In the Manga, Alexia Maccon typically wears Victorian style outfits and, although some Lolita style bits have been added, the overall style is Victorian with a bustle. Thankfully, I already have a bustle and a corset that I had made <a href="http://wanderingdalbeth.blogspot.com/2015/10/victorian-mourning-gown-skirt.html" target="_blank">previously</a>, so I just needed to focus on the skirts and bodice. The skirts appear to have either 2 layers or a ruffled white petticoat that is slightly longer than the skirt. The overskirt is teal with black strapping around the front and teal and black ruffles down the back. There are little hip poufs edged in lace either on the skirt or on the bodice. The skirt also appears to be roughly walking length rather than trained, which is amazingly nice for wearing at Conventions! <br />
I decided to make a 2 layer skirt, with the petticoat layer in white cotton and the overskirt in teal silk. Making these things one skirt reduced the number of waistbands I needed to wear and since the petticoat is longer than the skirt, I would never wear this petticoat with any other Victorian since usually I dont have my petticoats showing!<br />
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Once the white underskirt was done, I needed to make the overskirt. I again used the plain TV261-R pattern, but with a bunch of alterations. The back panel is cut exactly like the pattern. Ruffles for the back were made with 3 times the width of the back panel, hemmed both top and bottom and then gathered onto the back piece before assembling the skirt. The ruffles start a few inches down from the top, since I knew the top of the skirt would be covered by the bodice. The ruffles are are the same size, except for the bottom most one which is the same width in the center, but tapered to the sides as the center back of the skirt is longer to accommodate the bustle.<br />
It was in the middle of cutting the skirt ruffles that I realized I had a problem. I had bought 2 yards more silk than I though I needed, but had not realized how narrow the thai silk is! I ran out of silk before I cut the main parts of the bodice or the side poufs! I ordered more silk from my <a href="http://www.bangkokthaisilk.com/100-auth-silk/" target="_blank">Bangkok Silks</a>, but found that there is a lot of batch to batch variability in the color and I could not use any of the other silk that came in for this project! This silk was wonderful to work with, but in the future I will order way more than I need so I dont have this problem again! I really did not want to have any of the ruffles a different color, so the bottom ruffle is really heavily pieced but I did manage to get the full skirt out of the teal silk.<br />
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I decided I wanted to attach the odd lace edged hip poufs to the skirt, but I had a problem, I knew I was going to have to use a different fabric for the hip poufs (and the main part of the bodice) but I was having no luck getting really closely matching Thai silk. In scanning through the manga I noticed that Alexia was often drawn with the hip poufs and the main bodice a different shade (see the image to the left). However the front cover shows the same, or very close color. I decided to go for a very close color but a totally different texture in silk. I picked a very close color match dupioni but of course the dupioni has slubs and the Thai silk is much more smooth. The hip poufs were drape drafted using scrap fabric until I liked the shape. I then cut them out of the dupioni, gathered lace to the edge and lined them in the cotton. At this point I attached the waist band, sewed the openings of the underskirt to the over skirt and added hook closures.<br />
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Overall I really love this skirt, it is so swishy and big! <br />
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<br />Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-82654797600600761822016-10-23T12:35:00.002-07:002016-10-23T12:35:44.773-07:00Alexia Maccon Cosplay Part II: The Hat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Close examination of the cover art and images on the inside of the manga shows that for floating, Alexia wears a teal top hat with ear covers that are embroidered and edged in lace and with a short veil hanging down the back. The teal of the top hat matches her sleeves and main dress fabric pretty exactly, so I decided that using the same fabric for both would be a good idea. The main fabric I purchased for the dress was Thai silk from <a href="http://www.bangkokthaisilk.com/100-auth-silk/" target="_blank">Bangkok silk</a> and while this silk is absolutely gorgeous and wonderful to work with, it is very thin. So I decided the hat should be made of 2 layers of millinery buckram, wired and mulled in flannel. <br />
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I also decided that the embroidered ear covers should be interlined in cotton to help hold the shape and hand embroidered in black silk. Now I needed to pick the embroidery pattern, as with almost every drawn character I know, there is variability between frames as to exactly what the embroidery looks like. I used the image to the left to design the embroidery. I first drew the embroidery onto paper and then used a light box and a pen to transfer the image the thin silk. In this case the thin silk worked to my advantage as I could trace the pattern directly onto the silk using the light box. My interpretation of the embroidery is visible to the left. I flat lined the silk with cotton and then embroidered the design in silk twist thread. I felt the silk needed to be flat lined before embroidery as it was so thin. These ear covers were then lined in silk and edged in gather lace. They were then set aside until the hat was finished.<br /><br />
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I apologize in advance for the lack on photos, I was so worried about getting this costume done that I did not take enough photos during the process. However, I will share what I can, and I am happy to answer any questions people have.<br />
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<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-12-a9p62H74/WA0MCjU83LI/AAAAAAAAB1s/ZAiVYsZ1rgI3eBReq4ZHNOCVFc14EIUOQCLcB/s1600/IMG_1851.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-12-a9p62H74/WA0MCjU83LI/AAAAAAAAB1s/ZAiVYsZ1rgI3eBReq4ZHNOCVFc14EIUOQCLcB/s320/IMG_1851.JPG" width="320" /></a> The hat was made using a pretty standard top hat pattern I had previously drafted. Basically, I have an oval that is fitted to the crown of my head (not designed to sit down very far onto the head) for the brim. The top of the hat is a circle rather than an oval simply because I like the shape more for the top of my hats and it seemed Alexia's hat was also likely a circle at the top. The circle has the same circumference as the oval. The hat side is a single straight piece that is slightly longer than the circumference of the circle to allow overlap at the back. The brim and the oval were wired with millinery wire by zigzag stitching the wire to the edge of the buckram. To support the buckram, both the inside and the outside edge of the brim was wired. The side piece the seam allowance clipped and then hat was hand stitched together. The image to the left shows the stitching and seam allowances on the inside of the hat. Once The buckram was stitched together, I mulled the hat with some scrap blue flannel, the flannel mulling is simply used to smooth out the shape and disguise the wire. The silk was so thin, I was worried the wire would show. The flannel was cut using the same pattern as the buckram for the brim and the sides, but the crown had a seam allowance added. I cut 2 copies of the brim, one for the bottom and one for the top of the brim to smooth both sides. I then stitched bias tape around the outside edge of the brim to further smooth the edge. <br />
At this point, the silk cover was prepared. For the brim and the crown, a seam allowance was added as there was none present on the buckram. First the brim pieces (one for the top and one for the bottom) were machine stitched together along the outside edge. The seam allowance was clipped and the brim fit to hat and hand-stitched into place. Care was taken to hide the seam allowance on the brim either inside the hat or up the side of the hat on the outside. The crown also had seam allowance added. The crown was machine stitched to the hat side piece, seam allowances were clipped and then fit to the buckram form. The seam allowance for the side was tucked under and then the stitched to the buckram form. This means that the side neatly covers the seam allowance from the brim. <br />
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<br />Last was the addition of the decorative band and the black veiling. The seam between the side and the brim is then covered by the velvet ribbon and the black veiling was simply a very long rectangle gathered to the back of the hat. Since the veiling is a tulle like material, I did not need to edge any of it. I added a velvet bow to hide the gathering stitches on the veiling and add a small detail. I then stitched really long ribbons the ends of the ear covers to allow the hat to be tied to my head.<br />
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<br />Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-57170379760025301102016-10-17T16:57:00.000-07:002016-10-17T16:57:38.913-07:00Alexia Maccon Cosplay Part 1: wig and goggles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As I mentioned in my Gaslight Gathering post, I made a replica of the floating dress Alexia Maccon wears on the front cover of the second Soulless manga. I absolutely LOVE this outfit! One of the first pieces I worked on was the goggles and dealing with the fact that my hair is most definitely not black!<br />
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For the hair I decided to purchase a black wig. I went back and forth many times about the length the wig I should purchase and the style of the bangs. The reason for this is that the hair length and the style seems to vary greatly in the manga, sometimes it appears to be only shoulder blade length and sometimes waist length! Alexia's hair is almost always curly and often has shorter tendrils near her face and usually bangs. After much squinting at this cover, I decided I wanted a curly wig, with bangs and shaped sides near the face to allow me to have some curly tendrils near my face. Problem number 2 is that I have a reasonably big head normally and waist length hair that makes for a really big head when I wear my hair in a bun to hide it under a wig! Most cosplay wigs simply do not fit my big head with my real hair up under them. After much wandering around on various cosplay sites for wig advice, I decided on the <a href="https://www.epiccosplay.com/hestia-black.html" target="_blank">Hestia wig</a> from Epic Cosplay. Their wigs fit larger heads better and was actually pretty comfortable! I was able to wear this wig all day and it did not slip or give me a massive headache. <br />
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The goggles Alexia is wearing match her dress (of course) which meant I needed teal/turquoise googles which had metallic gold rims. As this is not a color you can purchase goggles, I decided to paint them. I purchased really cheap goggles on Amazon. These things are listed as welding goggles on Amazon, although I think they are much better for cosplay than actual welding. I liked them because they had the rubber edge for comfort and they screw apart to allow the addition of other lenses and make painting them much easier. My husband and I purchased teal and gold spray paints from the local home improvement store to paint the goggles. This paint specifies that it can be used on metal without priming, to allow a nice thin paint layer. We disassembled the goggles and painting the screw part gold. He covered the rubber and the leather nose piece with painter's tape and then painted the base teal. And here are the finished goggles, I think this was probably the easiest piece of the whole costume! Next time I will talk about the making of the hat.<br />
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<br />Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-21427123199596172832016-10-16T10:09:00.003-07:002016-10-16T10:09:51.493-07:00Gaslight Gathering 2016 con report<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Last weekend I was lucky enough to attend the <a href="http://gaslightgathering.org/" target="_blank">Gaslight Gathering</a>, a steampunk convention in San Diego. I have been to a number of steampunk conventions and this is definitely one of my all time favorites. The people were wonderfully friendly, the location was beautiful and eclectic, the panelists were entertaining and there were so many make and take workshops that the event was never dull! <br />
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We decided to go because <a href="http://gailcarriger.com/" target="_blank">Gail Carriger </a>was the guest of honor! She has long been a favorite author of mine and I was super excited to meet her and to hear her speak about her books and ideas. In honor of her, I made a gown based on the cover of the manga from the Souless Series (I will post more on the making of this dress in future posts). I wore the dress on the first day and got to take my picture with Gail! She is an absolute delight and one of my favorite con guests ever. Gail took pictures with fans, talked with all of us, was charming at her book signings, attended much of the convention, spoke with anyone who wished to speak with her and was elegant on top of all of this! She even posted pictures she took with those of us who dressed as characters from her book on her <a href="http://gailcarriger.com/2016/10/14/con-report-fun-at-gaslight-gathering-in-san-diego/" target="_blank">blog</a>. Gail is amazing as an author and an utter delight as a person!<br />
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Besides the perk of Gail Carriger's presence, the con itself was absolutely amazing. There were ~30 make and take workshops, some of which were free and all of which seemed amazing. My husband and I took 3 workshops: Build Your Own 7ft. Wide Retractable Wings!, Copper Charms workshop (with copper clay) and Learn To Solder: Lightup Bug Workshop. I will grab pictures of these things as we unpack and post pictures of these as well. The workshops were delightful and I wished we had found time to take more of them. There were also many con panels that were great fun. Some favorites were Gothic Literature and Its Influence on Steampunk and the Short Steampunk Film Festival. There was live entertainment, including SPLASH II! Water Ballet Encore, an all male steampunk water ballet by the Steam Punk League for Aquatic Shenanigans (S.P.L.A.S.H.). There was also a Tea with theatrics in which we flew around San Diego in a dirigible and got lost in time with the crew of the Lupita and a lovely ball with both live music and a DJ. A whole room full of steampunks did the Time Warp! And of course a wonderful vendor room full of fun things to buy. There was also teapot racing and 2 fashion shows. If you wanted something more relaxing, the con showed movies in the evening.<br />
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My husband and I purchased the VIP tickets and I can say they were well worth it! There was a nice selection of cool things in the gift bag including art by Brian Kesinger, a lovely t-shirt and light up icecubes for later prop making. The VIP lounge was well stocked with good snacks and stuff to drink and staffed by very nice people. It was also a very cool room for those of us whose costumes were hot! VIPs also got early access to workshop sign ups, which was a very nice perk. <br />
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In addition to all this wonderfulness there were many many people in amazing costume. I took some pictures, but in searching on the web I found so many amazing costumes I missed! This whole event was a delight and I really hope we are able to attend again!<br />
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Here are some more photos from the con. First some photos of what my husband wore. He kept things simple on Friday and Sunday with a vest, hat and cane. On Saturday he wore the Poison Doctor outfit with his new poison finder prop.<br />
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I wore the Alexia Maccon dress on Friday.<br />
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The Alexia dress is great fun to wear, but it is a bit limiting! I tried to take a picture sitting in the replica time machine and the skirts barely fit! The time machine was amazing however, the lights work, the dish spins and it is all controlled by the dashboard. <br />
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And 2 outfits on Saturday, although I only got photos of one. I wore the Anime inspired outfit in the morning due to needing my fingers free for the Copper Clay workshop and the Dia de Muertos outfit in the afternoon. On Sunday I wore my vampire gown.<br />
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Here are some photos of some of the other lovely and amazing costumes and props we saw at the con, but as I mentioned before there was so much amazing things to do and people that this is just a small amount of the cool things we saw there! A note to the subjects of these photos, if you see yourself and would like the photo removed, just let me know and I will remove it! Also, if you would like a link to your own blog here let me know and I will add it!<br />
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Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-17947093956097016512016-07-30T19:05:00.000-07:002016-07-30T19:05:39.621-07:00Steampunk Dia de Muertos skeleton shirt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am preparing costumes for <a href="http://gaslightgathering.org/" target="_blank">Gaslight Gathering</a> in San Diego in October, the theme is "All the Steamy Things That Go Bump In The Night" . Given this theme, I felt that the Dia de Muertos Plague outfit would be perfect. The picture to the left is the last time I wore the outfit and there were a few things I did not like. The first is that I have Dia de Muertos style skeleton leggings on, but my arms, hands and chest are bare (or covered in mesh only). So I decided to make a bodysuit/shirt that had integral gloves and a short turtle neck to reduce the amount of skin that shows. I bought some soft knit material and used a tight T shirt to make a pattern. I added a short standing collar to make the shirt a turtle neck and provide at least some neck coverage. I then traced my hands onto the knit and stitched around them to make gloves. I left lots of extra fabric at the top when stitching the hands. Once I knew the hands fit, I added a basic sleeve pattern to the top of the gloves. The sleeve and gloves were cut as one piece to minimize seams. <br />
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Once the shirt was sewn, it was time to paint. I wanted to mimic the style of the purchased leggings shown to the left. So I purchased fabric paints and cheap brushes from the local craft store and set to work painting the shirt. To keep the paint from sticking the front and back together, or sealing the hands shut, the hands are stuffed with latex gloves, the sleeves have plastic bags in them and the shirt was placed over cardboard. Painting on knits is really hard! The fabric stretches in odd ways that makes keeping the lines even almost impossible. However, overall I am pretty pleased with the way the shirt came out. The paint does crack a bit if you stretch the shirt too much, but I think it will work for at least a few wearings. Now to fix the shirt issue, since I was not happy with the previous shirt!<br />
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Dalbeth the Wandering Costumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04476737710043834483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514804287175765418.post-43788175183791219042016-07-09T16:17:00.000-07:002016-07-30T19:06:07.773-07:00Steampunk poison doctor accessoriesWith the <a href="http://wanderingdalbeth.blogspot.com/2016/07/steampunk-poison-doctor-coat.html" target="_blank">Poison doctor coat complete</a>, it was time to add some accessories. I figured as a poison doctor, he should wander around dispensing poisons to people. To make the poisons portable, I got some used glass vials left over from my work and cleaned them thoroughly. While I loved the look of the glass vials, the caps were either grey plastic or white plastic and really really ugly. I decided to hide the caps with polymer clay. This is probably only my third project with polymer clay so I am pretty happy with how they came out.<br />
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The white caps were hard plastic and as long as I removed the soft inner
lining could be place directly into the oven. So I simply molded the
clay directly onto the caps. I tried to follow the plant theme, and used leaves, wood and vines as my inspiration for the polymer clay.<br />
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Since the poisons referenced in the embroideries on the coat are both plants (hemlock, wolfbane, ect) and elixirs (Extract of wolfbane, Invisibility elixir, ect), I decided that some of the bottle should contain plant material and some should contain liquid. Since the larger bottle are much easier to fill, we filled them with assorted plant material from our yard. We then baked the plant material to dry it in the oven. Once the plant material was dried, we glued the tops onto the bottles to prevent any accidents.<br />
The small bottles were then filled with liquid. In this case the liquid is distilled water with food coloring added. These bottles were also glued shut to prevent spills. <br />
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The brown bottles had soft plastic stoppers that would not survive
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