Shake It Like A Poleroid Picture!

Huzzah for photographs! I sadly, am still missing my camera cord, but I finally sat down at the family PC which has a drive for my memory card to upload the pictures. (I love pictures. I had 1008 pictures total on my memory card!) So here is the visual update finally to go with the last post!

Kat's dress so far!

Meanwhile, Kathryn has been hand stitching the black piping she acquired to the raw edge of her lower sleeves. Once that is done we'll move on to making the elastic casing on the the lowest sleeve and stitching the two sleeves together. Once that's done, apart from her hood and hems, Kat's dress is pretty much done! And then we can move on to trims! :)

All the skirts are complet

My costume is also on the brink of completion. I attached the skirts to the bodice the other night and began draping the pink sashes. I also threw in the invisible zipper last night. So far it looks amazing, but I've yet to get the zipper to go up when the dress is on my body. And even when it's not on me, it still is very difficult to zip because of all the sash layers being in one place. Hopefully it will work better when someone other then my father is trying to zip it though. And if not, I'm not 100% thrilled with how the pink sashes are sitting anyway so I may revisit that to solve both problems at once. And I may put two small side darts in the bodice depending on where this thing ends up sitting on me. Other then those tweaks, I just need to make the part if the dark pink sash that dangles down and the rosette for the back and hem up the lowest skirt and this thing in DONE. :)

As far as the coat goes, I decided that even with the new job I couldn't justify spending 80$ for the pink wool. However, I did find some perfectly colored heavy weave for 3.99 a yard that will behave like the wool would have. I'm just going to throw a fleece layer on the top body pieces in between the fabric and the lining to make it warm for Halloween. I'm really excited about this and am currently brainstorming the best way to get the black embroidery on the collar and cuffs so that it's still accurate without a machine that embroiders. (And I *do not* have the time to hand embroider it).

Bella jacket!

In other costume news, the Gods of Costuming blessed me with a very fruitful shopping trip the other day. I found at Salvation Army a shirt that's perfect for Jack's costume. So if anyone wants to run around and drown with me, the option is open. I just saw it on a rack and decided it was too perfect to pass up. :) Georgia wanted to hit up Nordstrom Rack as well where I bumped into the B.B. Dakota jacket the costume designers of Twilight used for Bella in the movie. It was about 50% cheaper then when I found it online last winter so I picked that up as well. Not that I ever really want to do a Twilight costume again, but on the off chance I do it's there. Plus it's rather warm and cozy on the inside so I've taken to wearing it in my everyday wardrobe.

That's all for today. I have to grab some lunch before work this afternoon.
Cheers,

Thera

Dress is almost done!!

With the hoop and bum roll

Kat's sleeve trim!

Undies!

"I wish I knew some sewing spells"