Okay- I was going to keep this a secret but supposedly I was to finish a project a week and feature it immediately thus update around once a week. That's um.....you know. not gonna happen.
I got some things accomplished.... including (yes, they are in bullet form)
- house cleaning
- remaking Mattie the mannequin (updated pattern and the padding is sewn more-or-less into place so she can now be stripped off the mannequin with padding relatively intact)
- a strange felting attempt (not featured)
- designing a new tattoo
- party hosting
- knitting
-- this was actually completed before Christmas- it was a present for my sister.she loved it, by the way! It looked so good I wanted to jump on the tam-o-shanter bandwagon myself.
*jump*
... oh yeah. and
- REPO! the genetic opera costumes!!!!!!
There was a seriously bastardized version of costume construction going on with every corner cut possible- barely any tracing of pattern (cut the fabric directly around it instead) modifying the pattern during cutting, draping after initial construction and by the very end... some double-sided tape.
from left: Nathan Wallace, Not-quite-Blind Mag, Amber Sweet and a Genetic Opera-goer.I made the jacket ("Legal Assassin") for Nathan from a modified bathrobe pattern. Got the exact buttons from the button jar at work. After some searching, the glasses were bought at Ardene (stop laughing)- they were super-cheap and had fake lenses (better than screwing up Mr. 20/20's vision with real glasses) but had a really terrible tortoiseshell pattern. Solved with a coat of acrylic paint. Dress pants and authentic Anthony Stewart Head hairline already owned.
The hooded dress was merely inspired by Mag's "Chase the Morning" outfit-- how could I afford/what would I do with a holographic snakeskin coat? Instead, the total materials cost $30. The lace was on sale for buy-one-meter-get-three-free and the stretch velvet underlay was sent to me by accident by a fabric company and well... free.
I gotta give props to Meag's Amber Sweet ("Extra scene during the credits") costume as well. That shit was goddamn authentic, down to the knotted necklace and the white contacts (so creepy!).
Yeah, the party was pretty awesome. Blue curacao (sp?) Zydrate shooters (I can't feel nothing at all!) incessant sing-alongs to the soundtrack and BIG SCREEN PROJECTION (see the window behind me? not a window covering. movie screen.) with surround sound. For someone who never got to see it in theatres, it was the closest I was ever going to get.Wasn't sure what to do with myself once it was all over (kinda been hyped up for weeks). Now that I've seen it 3 times in a row, I can pace myself now.
Luckily there is the 1st Haliblogaknittas gathering to be psyched about- will most likely report on that next. If not- you know- in another month or two.
