Almost Done!

After a weekend of sewing and literally nothing else my costume is finally looking like it will in fact be wearable for the weekend!  The ruffles almost killed me, but I am so happy with how it looks!  I think once it is all together with hair and makeup it will look amazing.  The skirt probably weighs about 5 pounds and has at least 30 ruffles.

Here are some pictures through the process:

Halfway!

Getting Close!

Finished!

Front View

Finished!

Back View

I have now started to work on the top, which involves quilting a bunch of fabric together to make a vest.  I am so happy with how well it is going, and it is going much quicker than I expected!  

I am hoping to have the whole thing done by Thursday night!

What are your Halloween plans?

xoxo Veronique

The Never Ending Costume!

Well I am writing this after literally 5 hours of sewing, and it feels like I have hardly gotten anywhere.  I have been madly sewing ruffles all evening, but when I look at what was accomplished it doesn't look like much. 

I had the base of the skirt made from a few weeks ago, but my life has been so busy that I have done no work on it until the last couple of days.  The base of my skirt is huge, and I love it!  This is going to be a "Wicked" ballgown! 


I have posted pictures of what I have so far!  It looks great and I am so happy with it, but there is still so much to do.  I hope I can get it done.  I am starting to have doubts. 

Cutting out the skirt

The bare bones of my costume.  It took so much fabric just for this part!

Starting the ruffles.  This is proving to be a very time consuming project.

5 hours of work, doesn't look like I have accomplished much. 

I am hoping as I get higher up the skirt and it narrows that things get a lot faster!

Let me know what you think!

Starting the Costume!

Well today I was at an in-service in the afternoon, which means home from school early!  So instead of doing the mountain of homework I had waiting for me I wanted to do nothing more than get to work on my costume!  I started by cutting out the pattern, which took almost half of my floor, as the skirt itself took almost 5 meters of fabric!  My cats found this all too intriguing, and so they began getting in the way as their curiosity drove me a little crazy!  Never the less, I got all of the pattern pieces cut out.  I am using a couple different patterns and putting my own spin on them.  The pattern I used for the skirt is Butterwick B4827


As soon as I had all 10 pieces ready to go, I set up the sewing machine and got right to work.  Within an hour I had the skirt all sewn together.  Tomorrow I need to install the zipper and hem the bottom and just like that the skeleton for my skirt is complete.  While that sounds very impressive, I know, that is really just the easy part.  I am then going to sew hundreds of ruffles all around the skirt.  I have read on a couple of other blogs that this took some people weeks (hence it being Sept 19 and my Halloween costume is started).  I am hoping it will not take this long, but looking at the size of my skirt, I have a feeling it won't be a simple task!  But I am certainly up for the challenge. 

Now as you can imagine, hundreds of ruffles are going to take lots and lots of fabric, so if anyone out there in cyber land happens to have some old black, charcoal, navy or grey fabric lying around that they would like to donate to a worthy cause please let me know!  I am hoping to get an eclectic mix of fabrics, and so any type of fabric would be great.  It can even have a dark pattern on it.

I am so excited about this project, and I cannot wait to see it all come together.  As I am finishing this post I am realizing my excitement has gotten the best of me, and I didn't even mention what my costume is going to be.  I have decided to go as one of my all time favourite characters,  from what is arguably the best musical of all time:  Elphaba from Wicked!  It is a very ambitious project, but I have decided I am in need of a challenge.  I will be making her act II dress, which is absolutely stunning.

Here's hoping I defy gravity!

First Post!

I have been reading many of my friends blogs lately, and I decided I wanted to join the world of bloggers and share my love of crafting with the world!  I have been a crafty/artistic person my whole life, and I am finding now, the more I craft, the more I want to share what I do with other people!
I would like to start today with a few pictures of my favourite costumes that I have sewn, because I just purchased the start of my new Halloween costume for this year and I can hardly wait to get to work on it! 

These pictures are from last Halloween when my husband Dan and I went as Woody and Jessie from Toy Story.

I made his vest and my chaps with some amazing cow print fabric.  The hats we bought and spray painted.  I then added the lacing around the edge and the ribbon around the center of the hat.  I painted the detailing on my shirt with fabric paint.  Dan's shirt was probably the most time consuming.  I took an old white shirt and died it yellow.  I then drew all the red lines on with a fabric marker.  These are some of my favourite costumes.  I think the turned out so well!

Thanks for reading!  Looking forward to more posts to come.  Happy crafting!