Magic in Real Life: Making Elsa’s Spirit Dress, Part 2

Welcome back to my 3-part series of posts dedicated to telling you all about the making of Elsa, my main sewing project of 2020! If you missed the last post, you might want to check it out here because it describes the analysis of Elsa's Fifth Spirit dress from Frozen 2 and the planning I …

Making an Edgy Sith Lord Cape

In this post, I am going to blatantly ignore the advice of Edna from the Incredibles. While capes may be a hazard to superheroes, they're so fun to wear, I couldn't resist making one for my Anakin Skywalker costume. Besides... a good Jedi always removes his cape before a fight anyway! When I first made …

Making a 1912 Titanic Era Ballgown

After a full year of doing on-and-off work on my 1912 gown, I was starting to doubt my ability to get it finished- and now, it's actually done! Imagine that! That doesn't mean the whole project is done. I still have yet to make the petticoat; I wanted to have the circumference of the skirt …

Making a Modern Corset: Lessons I’ve Learned in Corsetry

After making my 1910s corset, I knew my corsetry adventures would not end there. There's something so satisfying and addicting about corsetmaking- you get to see it form into shape and become firmer and smoother every time you add a bone to it. And you have complete control over the shape of the corset. So …

Making Edwardian Combinations (Chemise and Drawers)

One of the disadvantages about living in the Edwardian era is that you never got to show off your chemise, corset or petticoat- even though those foundation garments are absolutely adorable! I absolutely love some of the more "scandalous" photos from the 1900s and 1910s of the girls in their corsets and petticoats. I know …

COMPLETED Edwardian Corset!

I can now say I've completed my first GOOD corset! Not made of canvas, not boned with flimsy featherlite boning, not drafted by myself, not something that poorly fits my body. Nope, this is a proper historical foundation garment that is made of coutil and spiral steel boning and it's comfortable and supportive to wear. …

Anakin Skywalker Inspired Cosplay: Construction and Pictures

After making this costume, I have discovered that Anakin's costume (and any other Jedi costume) is basically the most impractical outfit for fighting that I know of. XD It is almost intolerable to wear it in any temperature over fifty degrees, and those tabards fall off the shoulders so easily that I can't even do …

Edwardian Corset Mock-Up v2.0

You know how people binge-watch TV? Well, I binge-sew. I can't just spend half an hour a day doing gradual work on a projects. I spend over 6 hours on a Sunday doing a sewing marathon, and then leave a project for two weeks. Thankfully, I had lots of time yesterday to make Version 2 …

Edwardian Corset Mock-Up!

Do any of my fellow costumers here get what I call "costume anxiety?" It's that point where you're just like. Oh. Crap. Everything is messed up and it's going to be even more complicated than I thought, and everything I need is so darn expensive and how am I ever going to fund this!! Well, …

Padmé Costume: Corset Construction

Here's a pic of all the materials I had at this point! I had the completed blouse and skirt (with an embroidery hoop and bag of sequins for continued embroidery progress). The headband and hairnets were also complete. I had all my corset supplies- you can see the white silk, cut up pieces of canvas, …