The New thread for talk of all things costumy - and related panicking.
POSTED BY: seryn
UPDATED: Friday, September 8, 2006 11:48
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wow...i feel like such a slacker now!! serenity, great job!! and tristan...omg, you seriously are the costume god! *bows*
update on my kaylee costume:
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! panic panic eek eek...
ok, now that I've got that out of my system...I've finally ordered my coveralls!!! After looking from store to store today and not finding anything that fit the ticket (or me), I felt it was time to just buy online. So, I went to ebay and bought three different ones so i could have options, after all they were all about $5 each, so it didn't cost me much to get 3 of them. (the only prob is that we have a shipping problem, they want $43 to ship $15 dollars worth of stuff. we'll have to work that out) I think they're a little too dark a green, but they're my best bet at the moment. What do you think?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320015831076
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320015830530
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320015480271
My next steps are to make the teddy bear patch (which I need to go get the fabric for. I went to ACMoore today to get supplies for my first Jayne hat and I totally forgot the fabric.) getting the other patches and words onto the coveralls when I get them (they should arrive on thursday or friday, should the shipping thing get worked out within the next day) and cutting off the sleeves and hemming them. Oh...and I don't have a sewing machine...hmmm...maybe I can do it all by hand, or maybe i can borrow a friend's...i don't know. OH! and I have to find either boots or sandals that are good kaylee ones...man...i'm doubting whether i can get this done by D*C since i'm leaving for a week starting sunday, babysitting the whole day on monday and tuesday, and then getting to Atlanta on wednesday...someone give me hope before i don't have any nails left!!! eek!!!
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Boots i can't help with, and i know your panic as the way things have swapped and changed around, i'm working 11 days straight, three of those will be from 10-3, then 4.30- 10pm. Argh!
Then i get one weekend and then theres only a few days till i fly out! arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!
so don't worry, you're not alone!
I still have to make a pair of trousers, a shirt, a waistcoat and two pair of pj pants, because i've been looking for two months now and can't find a single pair i like to buy, so i have to make them.
aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!
They are going to be the roughest crappest things in the world - good thing they're for a pirate!
I hesitate to say it, but i hope to finish the corsets but for the eyelets tonight/tomorrow, but that still doesn't give me much time - its going to take me two nights to do patterns, a night each for the three trousers, a night for the shirt, maybe two, and two maybe three for the waistcoat - cutting it fine! and thats after abandoning the dress i was going to make if i needed it for the Buffy prom.
ah well...
But yes, onto you again, i'm afraid i can't help you with boot types or anything like that, beyond basic army boots i think are fine - if you can borrow someones then they'll look suitably beaten up and old, but you've got the issue of they've moulded to someones foot already. The badge will take you decades if you do it by hand - is there no one you know with a machine who's wiling to freehand embroider it for you?
failing that, satin stitch with embroudery threads on Aida will probably be the quickest option - it will cover the most space in the shortest time, wont look quite the same, but as a quick fix... and then you can do the patch the way Tristan suggested for the future.
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Engie: for sandals, find any shop that sells chinese shoes. I bought my sandals for $10 at a shop in my mall called Sino USA. It's also where I bought my parasol, my chinese dress and blouses, slippers, a couple purses and who knows what else! I love that place.
If you get down to the wire for sewing, I suggest "stitch witchery". It's hem tape that you iron on, a glue. It won't last if you wash the garment, but it'll make do for a day until you have time to sew it up proper.
Serenity,
First Officer of Destiny
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
http://callmeserenity.livejournal.com/
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Okay, I haven't seen Tristan around for a few days. Is anyone else getting worried?
Serenity,
First Officer of Destiny
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
http://callmeserenity.livejournal.com/
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Hey, all!
Thanks for the worry, Serenity...been busy this weekend, and I had a blasted head cold yesterday.
I'm trying to catch up on work from yesterday, so I'll be on and off all day.
Thank you again for thinking of me! 
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failing that, satin stitch with embroudery threads on Aida will probably be the quickest option - it will cover the most space in the shortest time, wont look quite the same, but as a quick fix... and then you can do the patch the way Tristan suggested for the future.
...wha?? sorry, i totally didn't understand that...
i'm not the best with terms of stuff...serenity, i don't have any great chinese stores around here. our chinatown is sorely lacking in many chinese things...
tristan? do you know of any way i can make the teddy bear patch without a sewing machine?? maybe i could embroider by hand??...would that take too long?
oh and what did you guys think of the coveralls?
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EngineAngel, those overalls look like they will work out fine with a few modifications. You don't have access to a sewing machine at all?!? That may be problematic...things can be done with a hand needle, but it'll take forever.
Serenity, you have uttered the blasphemous phrase "Use stitch witchery"! (kidding, of course! 
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EngineAngel, if there is anything I can do, let me know...I realize I can't come over and sew, but I am good at advice and moral support when it comes to costuming!
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EA, yes, the teddy bear patch can be done by hand...not all that hard to follow the lines in cross-stitch thread (it'll stand out as it is thicker)
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Tristan, I never would have uttered such a blasphemous phrase had she not said she didn't have a sewing machine! That is the real blasphemy! (just teasing Engie! Not everyone is crazy like us!)
I'll have you know that stuff saved my best friend's wedding. Kinda. See, she decided she wanted to hem big squares of coordinating cloth to put on the tables for the reception. She found fabrics she liked at the store and came to me VERY excited about it. And so she asked if she could use my sewing machine and if I'd show her how to do it and I said yes. Simple hems, right? I showed her how to iron and measure and whatnot and then she started sewing one day while another friend and I were helping her with decorations and whatnot. Well, I guess she had a hard time with it, or she just got overwhelmed because after about 2 sides she just freaked out, said she couldn't do it, threw a hissy fit (if you knew her, you would have been as shocked and amazed as we were) grabbed her dollies and went home.
I waited a couple hours and then called her and she said it was just too hard to sew them and I said "NEVER FEAR! You can have your tableclothes!" I ran to walmart, bought a bunch of that stuff, drove it to her house and showed her how to iron it in place. She got all the table clothes done in a few hours, and she was so happy she cried.
And the moral of that story is, give yourself more than 6 weeks to plan a wedding.
Also: Tristan: did you see my choli? Check out my choli (I'm just a little more than proud.)
Serenity,
First Officer of Destiny
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
http://callmeserenity.livejournal.com/
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Serenity, I understand about the witchery stuff...believe it or not, I do use it on ocassion...but only to hold really sleazy material still while I'm sewing it together!
Choli is gorgeous! You done good! 
I saw those Bollywood patterns this weekend while at the fabric store...made me stop for a minute. They are coming up with interesting things these days...
Weddings...mercy me, weddings. My wife and I had almost a year to plan ours, and I was still stitching things together at midnight the day before the wedding...and I forgot my boots...
So, even if you have time, I would suggest hiring someone to do all the work. 
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I decided once that it might be really cool to plan theme weddings - like renaissance or elizabethan theme, or fairies or purple kangaroo's, whatever people wanted - for folk, as all the wedding planners i've seen only cater for the trendy cash flashing lot (bleurgh)
Then i remember that weddings, and christening and funerals and familiy occasisions connected to a church freak me out. Always have done, since i was six months old (get me to tell you at D*C if i haven't already told you The Tale Of Helens Christening From Hell.)
But anyway.
Sorry EA, aida fabric is the grid like fabric that you use for cross-stitching, and satin stitch is where you have all of the stitches comming up and running parallel and xlose together so that they form a smooth gapless surface, very quick, covers a lot of area quickly, in the absence of a machine, mught be a good option. - was looking at the patch today, and a cheaper, more authentic option would be to use wool - the patch she wears has a matt surface and its quite raised and woolly, so use that for the bulk and pick out detail with the embroidery threads.
or did you get that bit and were confused about something else?
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