A No-Pattern Poet/Pirate Shirt
Directions on how to make a no-pattern adjustable size poet shirt.
Quick & Easy Jabots: Variations on a Theme
A jabot is a ruffle or frill that is worn at the neckline and is typically made of lace. They can either be ruffles on either side of the shirt opening, or a separate piece. They are a quick way to add a period feel to an outfit. Our high school does some costume…
Skirt-to-Cape Project: Fairytale
There’s nothing like a good cape. It swirls. It flows. It billows around with movement. It can be playful . . mysterious . . . evil . . . elegant. . . heroic. It can be a statement of wealth or an indication of poverty. Above all, though, it takes you to a…
Blue “Fairytale” Peasant Dress: Upcycle
A “little blue dress” is to Fairy tales what a “little black dress” is to cocktail parties . . . it is highly favored by Belle, Little Red Riding Hood, Dorothy, Alice, Cinderella and even Jasmine & Ariel wear variations on the theme. So, for a generic dress-with-no-specific purpose, choosing blue seemed like a good…
Making a Crazy Hat: Blue Edwardian
My last post was an Edwardian dress upcycled from a peacock blue Prom dress that I have loved for years. A beautiful dress is one thing . . . but when you add an over-the-top, oversized picture-style hat, well, there are no words. So, I have never made a hat, but I have read about hat…
Edwardian Costume: Blue dress with Jacket
This was a project that went TOTALLY astray, lol. If you’ve been following along you know I’ve been making “Fairytale”/Cinderella dresses. In the last post I had a red skirt that was a combination of two skirts–one ruched and one not–and I wanted to try to do a variation on that using a different ruched…
A Dress fit for a Queen (Red Dress #2/Fairytale)
Wait? Was there a Red Dress #1 post? Well, sort of. It melded in with Gray Dress #2. So . . . there was this really fun red skirt: and this leftover top: Which just seemed like something pretty easy to finish (a quick row of stitching across the bottom) and now it was time…
Gray Dress #2: Party Gown (Fairytale)
I started the component costume project with the Gray Dress #1 post . I wanted to explore creating different looks out of core costume pieces, largely with a goal of reducing the cost of costuming, especially if a character was envisioned to be dressed in variations on a theme of color. This has been a fun exercise…
Gray Dress: Variation #1 (Fairytale)
In the production of “Cinderella” that my sister is costuming, the Director determined that each of the Stepsisters and the Stepmother should have their own identifying color. These are not particularly easy-to-find colors and include lime green and bright orange. It is one thing to find/make one costume in a crazy color, but, to have…
Concept Costume: Fairytale Ballgown
My sister is involved with a youth production of the Broadway version of “Cinderella” this spring . . . so my mind has been full of transforming dresses (although they are renting theirs), armor, wacky stepsister dresses, and of course, how to outfit a chorus in ballgowns on a budget. I have been digging through…
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