A friend who's a costume designer is now the in-house designer for a local youth theatre group that is only a few years old. She was able to get the budget to hire me for 40 hours of labor spread out over a few weeks to help with a production of Cinderella. We've been able to use space in a church for rehearsals and a big room for a costume shop.
I can't express how much fun I've been having on the days I've been there! I did a big rack of easy alterations and now I'm building a couple of doublets for the prince. It is seriously satisfying to be able to trim the pieces before assembly to make them like REAL costumes! Takes a little more time up front, but it prevents tons of sewing trim on by hand in the end and will be so much more time efficient next time it gets pulled for another show.
#lifeasacostumer
I spent the day priming things for paint and then I remembered to shoot a quick video. #SewingStudioBuild
I started cutting all the edges while Janet was away yesterday morning. When she got back after lunch, she pulled out a roller and started filling in. I'll put a pic below in the comments. #SewingStudioBuild
We broke for lunch and then came back with a portal ac unit plugged in to an extention cord from the house. Can't wait until they finished hooking up all the electrical and we have the mini split cooling the room for us - it was stupid humid today! #SewingStudioBuild
I draped a really rough half-scale ruffle tail for one of the debutant dresses Janet & I are making. I just eyeballed and freehand cut a scrap of (un-ironed) muslin in a spiral and pinned it to my little dress form to make sure it was long enough to reach from hem to waist. Then I marked the folds and traced it onto graph paper and cleaned it up. The graph paper makes it easier to copy at 200% and tape the pieces back together.
I'll transfer the enlarged frankenstein paper pattern to brown paper when I'm back at the studio tomorrow or Friday and then make it out of the real fabric.
#ruffle #fiestabuild
I made 2 of these valentine garlands. Found the tutorial via Instagram and thought it would be perfect to send to Ashley, my daughter in Oregon, and Madison, my birth daughter in North Carolina.
Pics are from Ashley.
