Almost a year ago my husband and I made
leather steampunk plague doctor masks and then wore them to a local convention called
Steampunk Spectacular. I was very happy with how the masks came out, but always felt that we really needed outfits specific to the masks. I begun an outfit for myself based on the Dia de los Muertos skeletons to match the sugar skull mask, but had not begun an outfit for my husband. His mask reminds me of those Mr Yuk stickers that used to get stuck on poisonous stuff when I was a kid, so we decided he should be a poison doctor and provide poisons to people. To emphasize the poison tie, I decided to machine embroider the entire coat with poisons and evil elixir designs. I purchased the
Apothescary and the
Pretty Poison design packs from Urban threads and set to work embroidering the base black linen. The coat design was based off of Rasputin's black robe as the idea of a mad poison doctor also reminds me of Rasputin. To keep with the Mr. Yuk theme, all the embroideries were done in greens and golds. To give people an idea of how these designs come out, here are images of each design. Since each design was to be used multiple times, I altered the colors between runs, to give you an example. 'wolfbane' is shown twice, but once with an emphasis on yellow and once with an emphasis on green. All designs were used at least 3 times on the coat and the designs are 6-7 inches in their widest dimension.
Even with the embroidery machine, the embroideries took about 20 hours to complete, but I really love the detail and dimension they add. The embroideries were done on the cut out linen (edged with the serger to stabilize the fabric during embroidery) and were done with wash away stabilizer. Once the embroideries were complete, I washed the coat to remove the stabilizer to keep the coat from being too stuff. The coat is then lined with lime green cotton and edged with light green bias tape. Once the embroideries were done, the coat went together fairly quickly and I am overall pretty pleased with how it came out.
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Almost a year ago my husband and I made leather steampunk plague doctor masks and then wore them to a local convention called Steampunk Spectacular. I was very happy with how the masks came out, but always felt that we really needed outfits specific to the masks. I begun an outfit for myself based on the Dia de los Muertos skeletons to match the sugar skull mask, but had not begun an outfit for my husband. His mask reminds me of those Mr Yuk stickers that used to get stuck on poisonous stuff when I was a kid, so we decided he should be a poison doctor and provide poisons to people. To emphasize the poison tie, I decided to machine embroider the entire coat with poisons and evil elixir designs. I purchased the Apothescary and the Pretty Poison design packs from Urban threads and set to work embroidering the base black linen. The coat design was based off of Rasputin's black robe as the idea of a mad poison doctor also reminds me of Rasputin. To keep with the Mr. Yuk theme, all the embroideries were done in greens and golds. To give people an idea of how these designs come out, here are images of each design. Since each design was to be used multiple times, I altered the colors between runs, to give you an example. 'wolfbane' is shown twice, but once with an emphasis on yellow and once with an emphasis on green. All designs were used at least 3 times on the coat and the designs are 6-7 inches in their widest dimension.
