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Sunday, July 27, 2014

A 1920s Hemstitched Tennis Dress

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My 1920s tennis dress is loosely based on this dress at the V&A and this dress on Etsy. It's made of dress weight linen from Fa...
Friday, July 25, 2014

Game of Thrones King's Landing Hair--A Tutorial!

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Hair is probably my least favorite part of costuming, yet it's such an important part of costuming. For my King's Landing Dress, ...
Friday, July 18, 2014

An Easy Lined Bag--A Tiny Tutorial!

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With Costume College looming, I thought it was time to turn my embroidered bird and motto from my transferring embroidery tutorial into a...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Game of Thrones King's Landing Dress--Construction, Part Two

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This post picks up from Part One , which covered the main construction seams and the beginning of the lining. Here's where we left of...
Saturday, July 5, 2014

Uh, Oops? Alterations are needed!

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Sometimes when looking at finished costumes, it's easy to overlook the work that went into them and assume that everything went smoothly...
Friday, July 4, 2014

Garters, or What do we say to the god of death? A tiny tutorial!

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In the 18th century and 19th century, garters were sometimes embroidered with phrases. Some, such as these at the MFA , professed love, wh...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Beading and Beetles--Embroidering the Game of Thrones King's Landing Dress!

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From the start, I knew I didn't want to make a recreation of a dress, rather I wanted to make a dress that if I turned up in King's...