DragonCon 2009: So It Begins...Again...
Apr. 19th, 2009 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andveryginger... just a quickie update on the costume sitch:
I had originally decided I was going to do Mina Harker from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Since starting grad school, I decided that might be a little ambitious for this year. I decided that, since I already had the hip holster rigs and so forth for Abigail Whistler, I'd do the Abigail thing again this year. The vest is simpler than the Victorian redingote for Mina and I'd hoped to be able to just buy the yoga pants. I've since discovered that I can't find the pants in the right material, so I'm going to attempt to make them. With the new machine, it should be a little easier.
You can see the costume I'm going for here: Tiscali. In the previous post, you can see that my vest doesn't quite come down as far as hers. This is largely because I have a much shorter torso, and my natural waist, where the vest hits, is a bit higher up than Biel's. I'm using Kwik Sew 3420 for the vest.
The pants are a knit exercise/yoga/jazz pant, with a v-shaped waist. I've found a pair that were cut properly, but when worn, the material was just too thin. The second pair I bought had too narrow a waistband. I'm going to try and construct my own. I lucked out and found Kwik Sew 3443 while I was looking for other patterns. I have some cheaper spandex to try the pattern out with, and then about 3 yards of the expensive "high performance" stuff to actually make them out of when I'm happy with the trial pair. I also made sure to buy enough to make another pair if I screw up. Learned that from the mess that was the Galactica pants last year.
I'll also be working on a prop -- a folded bow -- so that I won't have to lug my own bow back and forth between here and Atlanta... not to mention deal with con security about it. I've purchased a NXT Generation "Compound Bow" which has similar lines to the Archery Research AR-31 Whistler carried in the movie. It's a pretty accurate toy bow that, in reality, isn't all that much smaller than my current bow, a Hoyt Trykon Sport. I'll have to cut it and paint it black, but it should be easier to deal with.
I'm also going to try and do the Emma Peel thing this year. Another Kwik Sew pattern (3052), I have the spandex and the metallic spandex to try and do something closely approximating her catsuit from "The Town of No Return." This will depend entirely on my ability to deal with spandex, and how comfortable I feel after finishing the Abby portions. If I don't feel up to it, or if I don't have time, Emma will have to wait another year.
As always, the Manticoran colors will be flying. I'm still debating taking my BSG uniform. DH says that, since Mary and Eddie will be there I should carry my Roslin suit. At this point, I'd have to take it in so much, I'm not sure it's worth it. ::sigh:: About the same can be said of my BSG uniform pants. Let's just see how burned out I am after all my school work and actual work.
ETA: Aha! I knew if I looked, I could find an image of the "Emma Peeler" I'm hoping to do: From the cover of the Avengers '65 box set.
Now off to bed!
I had originally decided I was going to do Mina Harker from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Since starting grad school, I decided that might be a little ambitious for this year. I decided that, since I already had the hip holster rigs and so forth for Abigail Whistler, I'd do the Abigail thing again this year. The vest is simpler than the Victorian redingote for Mina and I'd hoped to be able to just buy the yoga pants. I've since discovered that I can't find the pants in the right material, so I'm going to attempt to make them. With the new machine, it should be a little easier.
You can see the costume I'm going for here: Tiscali. In the previous post, you can see that my vest doesn't quite come down as far as hers. This is largely because I have a much shorter torso, and my natural waist, where the vest hits, is a bit higher up than Biel's. I'm using Kwik Sew 3420 for the vest.
The pants are a knit exercise/yoga/jazz pant, with a v-shaped waist. I've found a pair that were cut properly, but when worn, the material was just too thin. The second pair I bought had too narrow a waistband. I'm going to try and construct my own. I lucked out and found Kwik Sew 3443 while I was looking for other patterns. I have some cheaper spandex to try the pattern out with, and then about 3 yards of the expensive "high performance" stuff to actually make them out of when I'm happy with the trial pair. I also made sure to buy enough to make another pair if I screw up. Learned that from the mess that was the Galactica pants last year.
I'll also be working on a prop -- a folded bow -- so that I won't have to lug my own bow back and forth between here and Atlanta... not to mention deal with con security about it. I've purchased a NXT Generation "Compound Bow" which has similar lines to the Archery Research AR-31 Whistler carried in the movie. It's a pretty accurate toy bow that, in reality, isn't all that much smaller than my current bow, a Hoyt Trykon Sport. I'll have to cut it and paint it black, but it should be easier to deal with.
I'm also going to try and do the Emma Peel thing this year. Another Kwik Sew pattern (3052), I have the spandex and the metallic spandex to try and do something closely approximating her catsuit from "The Town of No Return." This will depend entirely on my ability to deal with spandex, and how comfortable I feel after finishing the Abby portions. If I don't feel up to it, or if I don't have time, Emma will have to wait another year.
As always, the Manticoran colors will be flying. I'm still debating taking my BSG uniform. DH says that, since Mary and Eddie will be there I should carry my Roslin suit. At this point, I'd have to take it in so much, I'm not sure it's worth it. ::sigh:: About the same can be said of my BSG uniform pants. Let's just see how burned out I am after all my school work and actual work.
ETA: Aha! I knew if I looked, I could find an image of the "Emma Peeler" I'm hoping to do: From the cover of the Avengers '65 box set.
Now off to bed!