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Light Blue Tatooine Midriff Costume - Padme Amidala Star Wars Episode II (2) AOTC

Here is the finished skirt front with the beading. 

Now that Rapunzel is done, I think I am...

...going to be working on Padme's Parade Costume from  Star Wars Episode I, Phantom Menace and Flynn Rider to keep things interesting. I will be starting a page for the Parade Costume.

To see more tutorials or information on a commission, follow this link...

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Voila!

The wind wasn't making things easy for me taking pictures! :P

What do you think of the top?

Here is the final picture of the top for Tangled...

I will be posting final pictures in a few days!

Tangled Skirt Embroidery

I am finished with the Tangled Skirt Embroidery! Yay!

I also picked the fabrics for Flynn on Flynn's page... Take a gander ;)

Almost done with the embroidery

Just gotta embroider the hem!

Rapunzel Purple Tangled Dress Disney Style!

Doing a little mix up here and steering away from Star Wars and toward the Fairy Tale World.

Tangled!

I saw this movie for my daughters birthday in December. I fell in love with it! Beautiful animation, clever script, hilarious! 

And of course the beautiful and determined Princess.

Fireside Outfit

Ummmm, its a little dark, sorry, One of my customers had the corset already and had an Ill-fitting skirt. She found the fabric from Thai Silks. It is a beautiful sheer black Devore silk with silver poly lining underneath.

I used the pattern #2810 by vogue. A beautiful mermaid style skirt. I used two layers. With a silver silky lining and a black silk velvet devore (burnout or cutaway) style fabric from Thai Silks. I don't know if they carry the same exact fabric anymore.

This is the same fabric they have now, but it is not black. You would have to dye it. It is about $20 a yard.

Padme Amidala Light Blue Tatooine Costume Front Panel

Ok... to the front panel.

The front panel of the dress has 11 strings of beads that are woven into the folds. So you must at least have 11 folds on the front.

Next Project.... Padme Amidala Light Blue Tatooine Costume - supplies

I Love this outfit! I wish I had the abs to pull it off. ;)

Supplies - I bought fabric for this dress about six months ago. It is an ice blue jersey knit. Soooo soft. I got about 8 yards. Extra for room for error... which seems to happen ALoT with me. An additional light weight cotton matching fabric to line the cape.

Original skirt and beads close up

Flat beads from www.beadsinbulk.com. Those were super hard to find. If they weren't the right size, the weren't the right color. I finally found them (ahhhhhhhh!!! <---- angels singing). I also bought black seed beads from Michael's to space them.

My beads strung with lame thread... Pretty close, huh?

Next, fabric paint for the cape. The outfit has a really cool either, embossed or silk screened design on the cape.

Last but not least (and probably not last) I purchased silver colored Sculpy for the head dress. I will let you know how this works.

 This is the best website in the world for Star Wars costuming information... This is the link for the Light Blue Tatooine Outfit.

http://www.padawansguide.com/cape.shtml

PS. If you talk to my husband... tell him I want "Dressing a Galaxy" for my birthday. Thanks! Lol.

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A year in costumes.... Corpse Bride

My daughter is a bit different than my son. He knows right off the bat what he would like to be for Halloween, no mind changes, she changes her mind 83 different times before she decides what she wants to dress as. The discussions start on November 1st, the day after Halloween.
Last year, she wanted to be;
a fairy, Lady Gaga, Alice from Alice in Wonderland, Alice from Alice in Wonderland with the Red Dress, a punk fairy, Belle, Little Mermaid, Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas, etc, etc, etc.
Well, this year (last year), she finally decided to be the Corpse Bride from Tim Burton's "the Corpse Bride".

So I began with the bustier. Simplicity has a good basic one that you can dress up. Pattern #5006. I picked a basic white rayon and a cut of lace to applique.

After I had made the bustier, I cut a hole in the side by her ribs and placed a piece of fabric that I had painted to look like ribs under the hole.

I made the skirt out of a white satin polyester, added a train, opened the front and cut the hem jagged.

The veil is of cheesecloth and ribbon flowers.

I air brushed the edges of the dress, bustier and veil with blues, grays an black fabric paint to give it an aged, rotted, corpsey feel.

I bought black sparkley roses, Christmas silvery foliage and ribbons with blue sparkley swirls from Michael's for the bouquet.

We bought the wig off eBay.

                                                      Isn't she a beautiful walking dead?

A year in costumes... The Mad Hatter

Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter

In April, Alice in Wonderland came out in the theaters. As soon as my son saw the movie, he wanted to be the Mad Hatter for Halloween. The genius of Tim Burton times the brilliance and talent of costume designer Colleen Atwood made Alice in Wonderland a feast for the eyes.

I started on the costume shortly after we saw the movie. I bought antique spools of thread on Etsy and strung them together with leftover chains I had lying around. The pants I made from pin striped wool fabric. I made the cut as a capri length and flared the bottom of the cuff. I used variegated hand embroidery thread to make the stitched vines on his left leg. Shirt was a basic man's white shirt that I dyed pink and added lace on the cuffs.

The hat posed more of a challenge. The base of the hat... believe it or not, it is a cardboard box and poster board. I bought dark brown iridescent fabric and covered the hat. I then covered the hat in an elastic type lace, hand stitched the brim and top with dark hand embroidery thread and then faux painted the hat with antique gold spray paint to give it a burnish look.The band is a silk scarf from Dharma Trading Company that is dyed apricot colored. For the hat pins, I purchased various medallions and beads and hot glued them to metal posts that I also spray painted gold.

Of course you have to add the 10/6 size card!

The jacket was simple enough. Brown faux suede with added cuffs. Men's vest, I cut on the bias. The buttons on the jacket and the vest were a bunch of mismatched ones I had laying around. Added a scarf and ribbons for the final touch. He needs fingerless gloves, a pin cushion ring and thimbles. Crazy red wig, mismatched socks and shoes with red shoe laces.

Doesn't my son make a perfect  hatter?!

A year in costumes.... continued - Padme's Sleeveless Mustafar Battle Uniform

Natalie Portman Episode III

In Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith - The awesome and beautiful Padme is preggers. Her wardrobe is just as stunning as when she is not with child.

I was commissioned to make an interpretation of the battle outfit Padme wore on Mustafar.

It is a sleeveless, tan, collared garment, possibly suede or suede cloth. It has leather belts that crisscross across the bust with a brooch and a buckle. The top is flared somewhat, fitted lighter pants, and high riding boots. She also is wearing gauntlets.

My interpretation of the Mustafar Sleeveless

 I used a faun colored faux suede for the top. It has a high collar, high waist and double princess seams on the bust. The pant is actually a pair of cotton stretch pants I ordered from Dharma Trading Company, then dyed off white.

Naboo symbol on the wrong arm :P

I am BLESSED to own a AWESOME embroidery machine (which I had to sell body parts to get, j/k). So I was able to re-create the Naboo Symbol on her gauntlets. I put them on both then read after wards, it was only on one, the left one to be exact.

Brooch and Buckle

The brooch and the buckle were a little challenging and it was my first experience with the marvelous product - SCULPEY! I bought shimmery white colored Sculpey, cut and carved the brooch and buckle. Baked it, once it cooled, I used a brassy bronzey colored acrylic paint and hand painted it. Once it was dry, I was able to weave the buckle on to the faux leather straps I made and hot glued a pin on the back of the brooch. 

Once again, It you are interested in this costume, please contact me regarding a commission. If you are interested in making and and have questions, I would be happy to help you! Just drop me a message. Thanks!

A year in costumes.... Princess Bride and Princess Jehnna, lots of princesses!

So this year has been a busy one. Most of the costumes I have made have been the Padme Amidala Pastel Lake Gown, which is fun mind you, buuuutt, I have had some awesome customers that have great sense of imagination.

Princess Buttercup

First off... I have NO idea why this stupid picture keeps loading on its side. So, my apologies. Back to business, One wonderful customer I have asked for Princess Buttercup Riding Habit from the Movie "the Princess Bride" (one of my Favs!). Such a fun dress to do. It was made from a tomato red rayon fabric that was a fabulous drape. I "crammed" the fabric on the cuffs (that is an actual technique, lol). and used grommet tape for the cuffs and the back of the dress laced with matching cord and metal tips. The neck line was "boned" to stand out because she requested it to have a deeper plunge than the movie dress. She wore this dress to Dragon*Con Atlanta 2010.

cuff for Buttercup riding habit

Buttercup Back

Once again not sure why the picture is on its side... :-/

As for the belt, I got a 2" wide brocade trim from a dress making store here in the beautiful Bay Area. ;D East San Jose to be exact. It was worth the jaunt. 

The second costume she commissioned me for was a bit more obscure. It was from the movie "Conan the Destroyer"! Netflix on Demand came in handy with this one, Try looking online for images for "Princess Jehnna" you will come up with two.


This one ----->

Conan the Destroyer

and this one ----->

Not too much help. Sooooo, I watched the end of Conan 400 times at least... Let me sum it up for you; virgin princess - sacrifice - crazy bad lady - lots of wind - scary gooey looking monster - sorcerer - blood - and Arnold and Grace Jones to the rescue!

I have got to tell you, this was a super fun dress to make. I found BEAUTIFUL irridecent blue polyester sheer fabric and sheer black fabric. I washed it in hot water, put it into the dryer on hot, pulled it right out, twisted it into ropes and let it cool. I got a great crinkled effect. For the white fabric I bought Ink Jet Silk Habotai by Jacquard. The sheets were a perfect size. My customer and I looked for "Ruins" type fonts on line and I placed random fonts using true type and Word. Printed it out and Voila! Instant instructions for virgin sacrifice. I hand stitched black cord around the silk and found great ornate beads at Michael's attached them to the cords. The dress has a leather type belt that is kind of like a corset. I made that out of pleather, boning, grommets and cording.
   

Padme Amidala Rainbow Lake Gown

This dress is modeled after Padme Amidala's Pastel Lake Gown in Episode II - Attack of the Clones. 

Padme Amidala Rainbow Lake Gown Promo Picture

This dress is made from hand dyed ombre fabric. Yellow, pink, lilac, and light blue. It is a halter style dress with a plunging back. The sheer overlay is also hand dyed and edged with a satin type blanket binding. Front and back has a mother of pearl type shell decoration with satin ribbon gathering. 

I hand make the necklace and arm bands from a form of plastic called styrene. It is cut, shaped, painted and edged. The painting is a faux style that looks like mother of pearl.

I will post pictures of the head bands soon. They are dyed purple with small seed beads hand sewn on.

A disclaimer; because this dress is hand dyed, there can be small imperfections due to the dye on the dress or sheer. I try to avoid this at all costs! ;)

This dress takes 6 - 8 weeks to custom sew.

If you are making this dress and have any questions, comments or need assistance, please email me and I would be happy to help!

Costume Comissions

If you are interested in having a costume commissioned, please contact me. I would be happy to speak to you about it. Thanks!