Finally finished!
Oct. 27th, 2015 09:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theladyrebeccaI finished all the quilting on Flynn, tacked down the back flange in a few places, and added the armseye flanges. Then I antiqued the studs for around the armseye with black nail polish, and studded the doublet. So finally, on to the clasps.
I thought those clasps were going to be the death of me. They were by far the most difficult part of the entire project, and took probably 6-7 hours to complete. My bf found pinchy clasps and buckles at the store, and then he worked on taking them apart and totally changing the makeup of the buckles. I wish I had a before/after picture of them, but he basically took some sort of metal grinder, and ground off the back piece to make them just into hooks. He also took the middle part out of the buckles. Then I had to make little strips to hold the end of the buckle to another fabric backing piece, much of which had to be done by hand, because the tubes wound up being too narrow, yet too thick to turn with my tube turners. On the other side, I had to make enclosures for the hooks to that all that would be seen was the rounded end of the hook. So in each piece, I made an eyelet, sewed up the sides, inserted the hook through the eyelet and stitched the hook to the enclosure, and then closed it up. Then of course, all these pieces had to be sewn to the doublet.
Naturally, while sewing all the pieces to the doublet the morning of my party, I ran out of thread. Luckily, my bf was with me and ran out to go buy some, so I was able to finish without too much stress.
I also sewed three snaps on the shoulder of my Rapunzel bodice and on my wig, which was a huge help. It really lightened the load. I'm a little worried about how hot it's supposed to be at Disney on Halloween, but at least my neck won't get tired!
I wasn't entirely pleased with how the bodice wound up looking on me, but I don't think I'm going to stress about making any changes before we leave on Thursday. For one thing, I don't think that either a) there was enough boning or b) that it was strong enough. In particular, since I only boned on the seams (though there are a lot of those), there's a place on the front where I really feel it could use more support. In addition, I didn't give the bodice enough flare at the hips, so it really wants to ride up as I'm wearing it. I had to keep pulling it down throughout the night.
But here's what you really care about - pictures!
The lovely Flynn Rider, sans belts (we're working on figuring those out before Thurs)
You can really tell where the bodice needs the boning in this first picture - it's almost like it's gapping weirdly over the waistband of my skirt. Any suggestions that I could do easily in the next two e
We will definitely need to take more/better pictures. We took a few really quickly before the party, but it started raining, and it turned out that almost every single one my bf took of me were blurry. Silly phone camera.
I thought those clasps were going to be the death of me. They were by far the most difficult part of the entire project, and took probably 6-7 hours to complete. My bf found pinchy clasps and buckles at the store, and then he worked on taking them apart and totally changing the makeup of the buckles. I wish I had a before/after picture of them, but he basically took some sort of metal grinder, and ground off the back piece to make them just into hooks. He also took the middle part out of the buckles. Then I had to make little strips to hold the end of the buckle to another fabric backing piece, much of which had to be done by hand, because the tubes wound up being too narrow, yet too thick to turn with my tube turners. On the other side, I had to make enclosures for the hooks to that all that would be seen was the rounded end of the hook. So in each piece, I made an eyelet, sewed up the sides, inserted the hook through the eyelet and stitched the hook to the enclosure, and then closed it up. Then of course, all these pieces had to be sewn to the doublet.
Naturally, while sewing all the pieces to the doublet the morning of my party, I ran out of thread. Luckily, my bf was with me and ran out to go buy some, so I was able to finish without too much stress.
I also sewed three snaps on the shoulder of my Rapunzel bodice and on my wig, which was a huge help. It really lightened the load. I'm a little worried about how hot it's supposed to be at Disney on Halloween, but at least my neck won't get tired!
I wasn't entirely pleased with how the bodice wound up looking on me, but I don't think I'm going to stress about making any changes before we leave on Thursday. For one thing, I don't think that either a) there was enough boning or b) that it was strong enough. In particular, since I only boned on the seams (though there are a lot of those), there's a place on the front where I really feel it could use more support. In addition, I didn't give the bodice enough flare at the hips, so it really wants to ride up as I'm wearing it. I had to keep pulling it down throughout the night.
But here's what you really care about - pictures!
The lovely Flynn Rider, sans belts (we're working on figuring those out before Thurs)
You can really tell where the bodice needs the boning in this first picture - it's almost like it's gapping weirdly over the waistband of my skirt. Any suggestions that I could do easily in the next two e
We will definitely need to take more/better pictures. We took a few really quickly before the party, but it started raining, and it turned out that almost every single one my bf took of me were blurry. Silly phone camera.