Cosplay progress photos!
Nov. 21st, 2004 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moonwiseIt's official: I'm out of bobbins. Time to head out to get some more, tomorrow.
I find it pleasing to look at all my full bobbins in the box, though. Each color is a different project - from the Christmas stockings that were my first project with the machine, to the signal flag pillows, to the Amalthea outfit, to Anna Williams, to Seung Mina, to Tenten, to the baby quilt, and last to Diao Chan.
Diao Chan's sleeves turned out to be more of a problem than I had anticipated, and Murphy is alive and well and living in my apartment. My first shot at her sleeves, working from a McCall's sleeve base, was a complete botch. I wasted both time and a good portion of my charmeuse, which has been a complete bitch to work with from day one.
Back to the drawing board, and this time I decided the only way to go was to make my own pattern, and get the divisions between colors mapped out with the French curves. That went fairly well, but sadly, another yard of fabric was required. Note to self: measure twice, cut once. Even then, the charmeuse walked on me during one cut and left the edge of one sleeve completely out of whack. Happily, the white part of the sleeves had been deliberately left long, and I was able to slice off the most whacked-out part.
I had not anticipated having to ease the white part into the pink part, so that was irritating, and the bottom seam had to be pulled out anyway because the gold strip is topstitched on. >_< Talk about executing steps in the wrong order. I like the way the bell of the sleeve turned out, though.
Without further ado...
Sleeves and tunic
(sorry about the funny perspective, I couldn't get the right shot from the other side of the table, and I was too lazy to rearrange.)
Closer shot of the sleeve
Doesn't look like much work, does it? :)
Next project: Diao Chan's butt-drape. The dupioni silk I chose for it is such a shocking pink that it wears my color receptors out, no joke!
I find it pleasing to look at all my full bobbins in the box, though. Each color is a different project - from the Christmas stockings that were my first project with the machine, to the signal flag pillows, to the Amalthea outfit, to Anna Williams, to Seung Mina, to Tenten, to the baby quilt, and last to Diao Chan.
Diao Chan's sleeves turned out to be more of a problem than I had anticipated, and Murphy is alive and well and living in my apartment. My first shot at her sleeves, working from a McCall's sleeve base, was a complete botch. I wasted both time and a good portion of my charmeuse, which has been a complete bitch to work with from day one.
Back to the drawing board, and this time I decided the only way to go was to make my own pattern, and get the divisions between colors mapped out with the French curves. That went fairly well, but sadly, another yard of fabric was required. Note to self: measure twice, cut once. Even then, the charmeuse walked on me during one cut and left the edge of one sleeve completely out of whack. Happily, the white part of the sleeves had been deliberately left long, and I was able to slice off the most whacked-out part.
I had not anticipated having to ease the white part into the pink part, so that was irritating, and the bottom seam had to be pulled out anyway because the gold strip is topstitched on. >_< Talk about executing steps in the wrong order. I like the way the bell of the sleeve turned out, though.
Without further ado...
Sleeves and tunic
(sorry about the funny perspective, I couldn't get the right shot from the other side of the table, and I was too lazy to rearrange.)
Closer shot of the sleeve
Doesn't look like much work, does it? :)
Next project: Diao Chan's butt-drape. The dupioni silk I chose for it is such a shocking pink that it wears my color receptors out, no joke!
