It´s quite a long time I didn´t write something, but I was working on the cosplay costumes my children asked for. My daughter always tries to choose simple looking costumes for me to sew. Nevertheless, every time I start research, that simple looking dresses turn themselves into some complicated pattern challenges. First one was Padme Amidala´s blue dress she wears on Tatooine, second was Daenerys Targaryen´s blue dress from season 4. Seems, she likes blue dresses!
Thanks to Michelle Carragher, who did most of the costume embroidery, I could manage the details
http://www.michelecarragherembroidery.com/Daenerys-Dragonscale-Gallery(2880136).htm
The dress is kind of a wrap-dress, consisting of two parts, the dress itself and the skirt half beneath. Most thinking process was how to assemble the pattern pieces in an easy way, creating the hole on the back and make the dress simple to put on an off. There are three different blue dresses in Season 4, the version I choosed to make, is quilted all over. To create some more sculptured quilting a decided to use padding between fashion fabric and lining. I created the smock in the same way Michelle Carragher describes on her Website.
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http://www.michelecarragherembroidery.com/How-to-Create-Dragonscale(2880143).htm
Just want to show you some pictures of the sewing and quilting process.
Here is a back view of the dress, lining and padding sewn together. The back hole has an extra facing to get a nice finish with the fashion fabric on top.
Finishing the back hole.
Here you can see the process of quilting , can´t remember how many hours I needed to finish the whole dress:
With the first try I made the mistake to mark the lines on the right side of the fabric.
While sewing I got the trick how to mark regular lines on the wrong side.
The smock is made with some extra pieces of fabric and applied to the dress. The edges then are covered with the embroidery. For the embroidery I used black cotton and a golden lurex crotchet thread.
The front of the dress with some of the smock pieces applied and embroidered. Don´t ask, how many hours I needed to embroider the whole dress. Most time I tried to do that work outside in the garden enjoying the summer sun.
My daughter has brown, long hair. She wouldn´t have a problem to dye her hair blond, but I decided to buy a front lace wig and do the hair like Daenerys
The hairdoo looks a little bit like an elb from Lord of Rings. I made it once again, with the braids placed deeper than you can see on this picture.
Both of us need some more practice with the costume and the wig. This was my first attempt to work with a front lace wig. Nevertheless I´m very satisfied with the result!
See you on Vienna ComicCon in November!
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