Fairy Queen: Finished!

So I finished the Fairy Queen dress just in time for the Elf Fantasy Fair.

So without further ado some pictures:
Picture by Zita Hisschemöller

The shoulders are a bit long so it didn't fall quite right around my bust.  Perhaps I will change this later.
Also the wings drooped, as you can see on this picture. I will also try to change this for the future. Perhaps even make new wings. I saw some beautiful wings in Elfia which really inspired me.

Fairy Queen: Oooh! Shinie!

Bodice

With the bodice together and the boning inserted it was time to add the Shinies to the bodice.
I've done this on Saturday for the better part of the day. It was more difficult than I thought. Luckily It worked and looks good. (Little bit of a dark picture, because I was losing the light)

All that's left to do on the bodice is adding the biastape/lining and the sleeves. I've wanted to make 2 different interchangeable sleeves for the bodice, but I don't know if I have enough time for that. I will try though.

Wings

Sunday I went to my best friends to make the wings. Unfortunately the decorating of the wings took longer than anticipated. We only had enough time to decorate the wings so they will still need to  be assembled. I will go there later this week to do this.

Accessories

I have the crown and hair and a necklace I can use. Nail polish is all settled. I'm still debating how I want to do my make-up and hoping I have time to test this before the event.
I have some glitter shoes, but I'm hoping to have some time left to go out and see if I can buy new ones. The ones I have are flat shoes and collect a lot of sand in the shoe. Not comfortable for this event.

Fairy Queen: Bodice making

I had already sewn the interlining to the fashion fabric. With only a week left 'till Elf Fantasy Fair time is running out.

Yesterday I moved my sewing machine upstairs so I can sew a few hours after work. I had been using the living room, but I need to vacate those premises when the parents return. With the limited time I have left I needed all the time I can get.

Yesterday I've seen the pieces of the bodices together. I have now 2 halfs of the bodice.

I give you a phone picture of my sewing desk and the 2 halfs of the bodice. Perhaps I can take a better picture tonight of the area. The lighting is bad, so the picture will be grainy.

Fairy Queen: Finished skirt!

Hi party people,

I finished the skirt for the Fairy Queen dress. I think it looks good. Here's a picture of the skirt with the crinoline underneath it.

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.