make a costume!

Turned out okay. Changed the design to keep from breaking my brain. Works well enough to get the point across. Will probably not be helping Larry make a Gatling gun replica for Halloween, as tempting as it is. However I don’t know when I’ll be hopping back on this horse to get the full Lúthien gown done.

Too many fits and starts. And now, I’m making something completely different from all the other stuff. Evil League of Evil here I come…

/sigh After this one, back to the Elvish one, and then I need a break.

It pours. Somehow I keep forgetting that there is a reason I keep vowing to start my Halloween costumes earlier, and that reason is that fall is a sucky time to have a project. Shit always happens.

I’m behind, very very behind, and everyone keeps clamoring for my frickin’ time. I have a stroke of good fortune in the form of insomnia, however, and I intend to use it to my advantage. By the time Halloween comes I’ll be half dead but hopefully also dashing.

Oops I’m accidentally doing Muromachi period garb for something on Labor Day. Focus, dagnabbit, focus!

I ah, er… this thing gets more elaborate as I go along.

Let’s just say I signed myself up for more hand embroidery than I thought I might have to do.

Drafting muslin of Lúthien’s mock-underdress. Adjusting the sleeve seams to wrap around and meet the seams for the lower sleeves. Finalized the embroidery design for the trim.

This is getting added to my list so I don’t keep spamming the “sew my own clothes” section with tales of my Arwen dress. :D

This year I’m making:

-a Lúthien costume (based on Arwen’s Blood-red dress)

-Arwen’s Hope Gown

-Aragorn’s jerkin, red shirt, and tackle and gear

It’s a very Tolkien year. :) The highest priority goes to the Lúthien costume which I reallyreally want finished in time for Halloween (yes it’s that elaborate). Working on the fake-underdress now…