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Nov. 16th, 2008
(This is my filter for the Insane Costuming Project for Prophecy. Previous entries are here and here.)
It's been quite the weekend on the ICP front, with a lot of frustration -- but, in the end, success! Barring some cleanup, I think I'm done.
Things had been going fairly smoothly. I'd successfully made the two smaller headpieces (I've nicknamed the smaller ones Inky and Stripey), and was getting started on the final, larger, silver one (nicknamed Big Mama).
( First, there was foam. )
Then I cut out the silver fabric... and then the frustration began, when I discovered (as I said in a public post) that my sewing machine Does Not Like this fabric at all. I managed to get the two pieces of the cone sewn together, and a few of the tentacles, but the problems were so annoying that I was getting intensely frustrated, and it was taking me way too long to do each one because I kept having to stop and go over sections again. My cousin A, who's still visiting me and has been incredibly patient with this nonsense, drove me out to a fabric store for an emergency purchase of knit-specific needles. Didn't help.
Then,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wesleyjenn, bless her, brought over her serger. That got me through the tentacles, which were the worst -- I couldn't use the glue gun, because the glue didn't stand up to the process of turning the tentacles right side out. The serger got a little cranky after that, but the glue gun came to the rescue. Big Mama's tentacles are glued on instead of sewn, and the Big Mama tunic is pretty much entirely glued together!
But, in the end, the headpiece was done.
( Meet Big Mama's headpiece. )
While waiting for the serger, I had sewn Stripey's tunic, so this was the first of the three to be totally completed.
( Stripey. )
Then, there's Inky. I made the tunic a touch longer.
( Inky. )
And finally, Big Mama herself.
( Big Mama! )
So, it's done. I'm tired. But rather pleased.
It's been quite the weekend on the ICP front, with a lot of frustration -- but, in the end, success! Barring some cleanup, I think I'm done.
Things had been going fairly smoothly. I'd successfully made the two smaller headpieces (I've nicknamed the smaller ones Inky and Stripey), and was getting started on the final, larger, silver one (nicknamed Big Mama).
( First, there was foam. )
Then I cut out the silver fabric... and then the frustration began, when I discovered (as I said in a public post) that my sewing machine Does Not Like this fabric at all. I managed to get the two pieces of the cone sewn together, and a few of the tentacles, but the problems were so annoying that I was getting intensely frustrated, and it was taking me way too long to do each one because I kept having to stop and go over sections again. My cousin A, who's still visiting me and has been incredibly patient with this nonsense, drove me out to a fabric store for an emergency purchase of knit-specific needles. Didn't help.
Then,
wesleyjenn, bless her, brought over her serger. That got me through the tentacles, which were the worst -- I couldn't use the glue gun, because the glue didn't stand up to the process of turning the tentacles right side out. The serger got a little cranky after that, but the glue gun came to the rescue. Big Mama's tentacles are glued on instead of sewn, and the Big Mama tunic is pretty much entirely glued together!But, in the end, the headpiece was done.
( Meet Big Mama's headpiece. )
While waiting for the serger, I had sewn Stripey's tunic, so this was the first of the three to be totally completed.
( Stripey. )
Then, there's Inky. I made the tunic a touch longer.
( Inky. )
And finally, Big Mama herself.
( Big Mama! )
So, it's done. I'm tired. But rather pleased.