After completing my first Young Frankenstein: Peasant Girl #1 costume I was having a good time and decided I needed to make a thrift store run to look for some inspiration. I was hoping to find some white shirts, and maybe a vest or two, and some skirt possibilities. I really liked the border tablecloth and thought…
As you can guess from the title of this post . . . I am making some costumes for a local production of “Young Frankenstein”. This little costuming adventure is a new experience for me as I am getting to play the role of worker bee and am NOT in charge of the whole thing.…
This project began with a curtain and an idea: The curtain was a double panel ruffled curtain joined with a curtain rod pocket at the top. The panels were about 30″ x 72″, with the double ruffle along the inner edge and the bottom. I also had two ruffled curtain tie backs. I paired this…
If you have been following along with my blog, you have seen a few posts along the way detailing how to make this sort of adjustable tie-waist skirt (Peasant Skirt/Petticoat Tutorial for “Cinderella” Sewers: Over the Bum Pad and Eggplant Bridesmaid Dress Post #3: A more Medieval Look)–so sorry, nothing new. I recently posted a youtube tutorial and…
In the Broadway Version of “Cinderella”, Ella has to ditch her traditional Disney-blue gown for white. There really isn’t any way to get around this. When Marie asks about going to the Ball, Ella replies she dreams of a white gown, done up with pearls. There are other references to the color of her dress,…
I have posted a couple of times previously with suggestions on how to make a simple costume overskirt using elastic and a bias tape casing. The drawback to the elastic version is that it is a little harder to put extra fullness in the back, and while the elastic has stretch, the skirt is more size limited. The bias…
Thanks to my Mom for her initial draft of the instructions! For my blog followers/readers: this is a tutorial written for the volunteers who will be sewing for our “Cinderella” production. This is a little different format than my usual posts. TUTORIAL: Thanks for volunteering to sew for “Cinderella”. These are the instructions for the…
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