Sarah part 3.

Sarah's ballgown part 3. 

The ballgown was finished. Skirt + hoop skirt attached. 

But then I had the delightful chance to remake the entire dress into a far better one. 

And the remake was much better than my original. 

Beadwork + embroidery (hidden peach in the hand work)

"It's only forever, not long at all"-David Bowie 

Loki cosplay

Loki cosplay

   First off, this costume is quite overwhelming, and frankly it terrified me to even try an attempt at making it, let alone make it look good. And here is the "burdened with glorious purpose" costume. 

Reference of Loki:

This costume is highly detailed and very complicated, but I had a lot of fun with it!

And here is my final result. Ta daa!

I originally entered this into salt lake comic cons September 2015 cosplay contest. (Didn't make it in)

Before and after. 

This costume took an estimated 123 hours to make, approximately 380 dollars and several blisters. Loki is "always" worth it.  

Sarah's ball gown part 2

Continuing with the fun sleeves, these are the lower sleeves, which will have pearl buttons, not screen correct but cute.















The entire sleeve is made of up of three yards of fabric and then gathered with a gathering stitch, even with three yards, the sleeves were not as big as I wanted them to be. How did Sarah (Jennifer) manage them?

Both sleeves attached.

Pearl trim at the top.

Now onto the skirt:

The top layer of the skirt consisted of 6 yards thin white sheen fabric, plus 8 yards shiny tulle. The skirt is a basic dirndl skirt patten, with only one seam on each layer.
















I plan on adding a very large and filling petticoat to go over the crinoline (hoop skirt) and underneath the top two layers of the skirt. In this picture, the skirt has only the crinoline as support which has proven to be too small.

After these pictures were taken, I attached the skirt to the bodice and inserted an invisible zipper which turned out to be a very large mistake as the dress will now not fit and zip up at all. I need to remove the zipper and perhaps add grommets/ eyelets instead so that it is adjustable. More work, but then again, who ever says no to a lace up back fairy tale ball gown?
 

sarah's ball gown from the labyrinth. part one

If you have ever seen jim Henson's 'the labyrinth' then you know that Sarah's white ball gown is one of those costumes that you just dream of owning one day. Here is my tutorial on Sarah's gown.

First step means getting reference pictures. Watch that lovely scene, and just look at her dress up close.

Nice side view of those sleeves.

So I started by looking through patterns and I ran across this one which served its purpose really well. 

It's snow whites dress from mirror mirror, but I altered it to fit my needs. I don't have any progress pictures of the bodice, but it's basically done just as the pattern says. I used some pretty white cheap stuff from Joann's, and with some interfacing and shiny stuff to go on top I was able to start on the embroidery.

I had the pin lying around so I thought "hey, why not?" I used all six strands in the floss, I know it makes it much harder to work with, but I really wanted the gold to show through. It'll make sense later, trust me. Got all of that done in only the amount of time it took me to watch all of les miserables. 

First I added sequins, then pearls, and lots of mini white beads. See how I wanted the gold to show through?

More embroidery... While watching arrow on netflix. Fun fact: if you are watching a movie and want to do something with your hands, instead of eating, try hand sewing instead.

Total embroidery time =23 hours. I know, it sounds like a lot of time, but it flies when you watch as much television as I do.

Next up means those HUGE sleeves.

The original sleeve pattern seemed a little small so I improvised and got just what I wanted. The sleeves have a total of four layers. The extra layers adds to the "poof".

Poofy right?

I just wanted to see it, so I made a makeshift skirt and got this. I'll be adding around ten yards of tool and netting for the "poof" of the skirt.