Hello My Darling Dolls
After OzComicCon and PAXAus I have been drawing a bit of a blank as to what I'm making next. So..... I have decided to start my Tinkerbell cosplay. The deadline for Tinkerbell is October 2013 or April 2014 depending on weather, but I find as soon as I start working on one cosplay I get more and more inspired and suddenly I'm working on multiple costumes.
Anyhow I somehow I have to get this pile of fabric to look like this.
After a few hours of research I made my way to Spotlight (my local fabric store) and picked up fabric, fixings and ended up with heaps of patterns as they were all on sale for $5. I gotta love $5 patterns, and now I have a heap of base patterns to use over the coming months. Tip to all you newer cosplayers just because the pattern says its for a 'formal dress' for example they can be great to use for your cosplay. I'm slowly learning to see past the picture and just at the design.
I ended up grabbing a simplicity cocktail dress pattern and started to re-design for Tinkerbell. Currently the base layer is emerald poplin (a great base at $2.99 per meter) and then with an overlay of lime organza. It actually better than I expected once I started to stitch it together.
However after 5 hours I had the brilliant (I use this term loosely) to add layers of single leaves all over the dress to really up the fairy feeling. Each flower has to be cut out, then outlined with glitter paint. Sadly the pic below doesn't show it too well at the moment. 2 done only another hundred or so to go, the to figure out how to stitch them on. Then I need to figure out how to make the wings.
Wish Me Luck Dolls
2 comments:
To sew them on - what about line down the centre like the spine of a leaf?
Ooh and will you make the wings out of the same organza?
Post a Comment