(Have collated days 1-15 in one post, once these are done will do the same for the rest) 30 Day Cosplay Challenge! Day 16 Not locally because Iām the smelly judge š No really. But I am part of one or two groups that not everyone can say they have been invited to be a…
Author: Michaela de Bruce
Day 1-15
30 Day Cosplay Challenge! 1. Your first cosplay. Christine Daae. Funnily enough. Not a direct copy, an interpretation for a Song in Costume class for the North Shore Performing Arts Competition in 1994. Canāt find my photo of it online. Ah well. I still have it. To remind myself of how far I have come…
Yeah. Swiss suits me. Sigh. I do love it but I soon got interested in those crazy Cleves/Cologne styles which though hugely unflattering are super fun. And mental.
Some more early garb. Saxon but heavily influenced by Anne of Cleves. A symphny of circles š
sunburst and mina
November 17th, 2010, 12:34 pm I am glad I made the decision to redo the skirt front for the Sunburst dress š I now have the design transfered to paper so I can neaten it and transfer it properly. I can now machine sew the rays and hand sew the clouds from the front. The…
sunburst taking in
November 15th, 2010, 08:03 pm I did start to adjust the Sunburst skirt. But I am not happy at how the pencil is showing through. So I have enough left over to recut the skirt front panels and I can use bits of the current skirt fronts for the bodice. I’m not going to use…
sunburst adjustments
November 14th, 2010, 11:05 pm So I did manage to bust out the Sunburst skirt and sew it up enough to start sewing over the pattern. But there are two thick blue pencil marking the width of one of the skirts which is narroer than what I went with. That said I can most easily…
sunburst tracing
June 13th, 2009, 05:19 pm Well I spent the afternoon drawing on fabric but I do finally have my beading layout transfered to the back of the fabric š The dark blue vertical line is where the original seam was. I shifted it out a little as it just balanced a little better that way…
sunburst scaling
June 12th, 2009, 11:38 pm FantasticĀ Ā Thanks to an online tutorial I now have a grid for my skirt patternĀ Ā Thanks to myself it was tweaked to be a useful grid pattern for scalingĀ Ā Thanks also to myself I have a scanned scaled image of my skirt pattern and can now apply a grid to the back of the…
sunburst- pink version
http://www.kci.or.jp/cgi-bin/collection/collection.cgi?lang=e&path=1770/05-007716_aSadly the photo does it so little justice, you need the Taschen book to really appreciate how stunning the trimming actually is. Noooooo!!!! I just realised something: http://www.kci.or.jp/exhibitions/index_e.html Japonism in Fashion, New Zealand Jul. -Oct. 2003, at the Museum of New Zealand, Te papa Tongarewa, Wellington Dec. 2003-Mar. 2004, at the Christchurch Art Gallery, Te…