Fairy Queen: Update

Unfortunately I didn't finish the skirt or the bodice. The skirt just needs to be pleated and sewn to the waistband, but my back hurts too much to do this today. Since I have Imagicon tomorrow I won't push my back to it's limit and pleating always takes a toll on my back.

But I promised pictures. Here's a picture of the dress with all the layers. It ended up being 4 layers after all, since the fifth wouldn't fit really well. Since the light was already fading the colours look less vibrant, but they are very vibrant.

Fairy Queen: Plans are made to be changed!

Monday I went to the market to buy more fabric. Unfortunately the stand wasn't there, yet I found some pretty other fabrics I could use. Lots of police and helicopters for the NSS. Luckily it wasn't a bother too much.

Yesterday I cut all the fabric. Found out I had did have enough of the pretty fabrics, just not the organza. Yesterday I didn't have enough energy to continue after cutting fabrics. My back ached as well.

This morning I started putting all my fabrics together. The new fabrics and the old fabrics and I made some decisions. I now had 6 fabrics, but only 4 were needed. So I decided to make 5 layers. Only the soft pink organza was cut, since it didn't really show on the fabric of the base skirt. It will have a much softer gradient and I think it will look prettier.

The rest of the day was spent sewing the layer parts together. Tomorrow I will hem and ruffle them. Before I'm sewing them onto the skirt I can always change things again. I'm flexible like that.

Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures today and I don't feel like doing it tonight as well. I will try to make some pictures tomorrow.

Fairy Queen: Wig and crown!

So I received my wig and crowns this week. I ordered 2, because I couldn't decide.

The wig is a little less yellow than this picture suggests. This is the big crown. I like the bigness of it. But it doens't follow the shape of my head that much. I would also need to poof up the wig more than with the other crown. Yet I do feel this is more of a Fairy Queen crown than the other one. 

 

This crown follows the shape of my head very well and I love how sparkly it is. It's also shorter so I won't need to poof the wig that much. But I also fear that when I poof the wig and style it the crown gets lost in the curls and wig since it's more subtle. Even though I'm not sure if this crown is Fairy Queen material, I love the crown so much I will use it for other costumes. 

I have the same wig in a more brownish colour which is also very pretty. I have however cut the bangs on that wig so it fits perfectly without a crown. With a crown however the wig needs to move backwards and the bangs would be too short for that.

Next week I have another week of sewing planned, so I hope to finish the dress to an at least wearable and 'testable' state. I need to see this together to figure things out.

Fairy Queen: Market run, failed.

So today I went back to the Noordermarkt in Amsterdam to get more of the fabrics. I re-calculated how much I needed which is about twice as much. Since this market is only open on monday morning I moved my shift to a later shift, enabling me to go before work. 

So this morning I got out of bed early and left for Amsterdam on 8 o'clock. An hour later I arrived at the market. 

I bought canvas for my bodice and continued over the marketstreet towards the stand where I bought the other fabrics. Only to see an empty stall. A quick inquiry at the neigboring stand taught me that he probally wasn't going to come since he would have been there already. (Market was just open and many stalls were still setting up). Disappointing. So even though I checked the rest of the stalls I couldn't find the fabrics I wanted to use. Or something else I liked for a decent price. 

I did manage to get the magenta organza I needed. But I need to go back for the other fabrics. I'm kinda bummed, but at least I can finish the bodice. 

Fairy Queen: Recap

Since some people were wondering which patterns I used and stuff a little recap about my current project. No ramblings, just pictures.

My Fairy Queen costume will comprise of the following.

Crinoline finished:

Skirt: In progress. No pictures.

Bodice:

Skirt and Bodice colours:
(bodice- far right, Skirt- everything else)

Bodice shinies:

Wings: In progress

Alright. I hope you can use this collage to get a fair idea about the look i will get. Thanks for following my blog and I love comments, so please comment.

Maybe I'll use the pictures to photoshop something together. If I get enough comments asking for it :P *commentwhoring*

Fairy Queen: I can fly

Yesterday I went to my best friends house to work on our wings. We have tried some techniques with old pantyhose.

We used electrical wire and panty hose. We couldn't find any white ones, so used pale flesh coloured ones. We bought Flamingo Pink en Powder Pink Dylon textile dye to see if we can colour the panty. Dylon says: No, but fashionblogs say Yes. Guess we are going to find out.

Without further ado the basic shape of my wings.

Also I have sewn the basic skirt together. But when cutting the ruffles I found out I haven't got enough fabric so I need to buy more. Unfortunately I bought the fabric at a market that's only there on a monday morning, so I need to change my shift at work to buy some more. Luckily for the organza I can go to the local store.