My Favorite Movies for their Costumes

Sometimes when I watch a movie, I'm just in the mood to look at pretty costumes. Aside from the fact that I'm a costumer, I'm a highly visual person in general. Character development is definitely important to me, and I like a good plot as much as anyone else, but having a beautiful set, good …

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 …

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 …

Random Side Project: Anakin-Inspired Cosplay

It's that time when I'm just itching to sew something and I have ideas and money to spare, so I will now introduce the next random side project: Anakin Skywalker-inspired Jedi cosplay! Why am I embarking on probably the third random side project since I decided to do the Edwardian dress? Several reasons. One, I'm …

Padmé Costume: Final Pictures

One morning in early September, I literally got up at 5 AM to do my hair and put on the costume... since it took a really long time. And we left around 6:30 to get to this beautiful park by 7 so that we could get this magical early morning sunlight and beat the crowd. …

Padmé Costume: Cape/Shawl

This post will be among the last ones about this costume... and it's the Cape post that I've been talking about for a while! Remember when I talked about how I found the sequins for the blouse and skirt by looking at Padawan's Guide's FB page? Well, it was on that post that I found …

Padmé Costume: Corset Embroidery!

And now it's time for the most tedious and intimidating but most pretty and satisfying part of the costume! The corset embroidery! Not a whole lot to discuss here... mostly progress pix. But, there is some important stuff I had to do... First of all, I needed a reference to draw those shapes. Padawan's Guide …

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, …

Padmé Costume: Corset Part 1

*drum roll* And now... It's time... For the hardest part of the costume.... The CORSET! I had been dreading and excited for this part of the costume at the same time. 😛 It's so pretty, but, it's a corset. So it's a wee bit complicated. Also, it was my first corset, and I'm pleased to …

Padmé Costume: Skirt Construction

This will be a reasonably short post, since my skirt wasn't really that complicated. It should have been, because it should have been a circle skirt and circle skirts are complicated. But, like I already said, circle skirts waste a lot of fabric and usually require patterns, and I didn't have a ton of money …