new embroidery and beads (Posted 10th October 2011)

i have decided to add a bit more detail and beads to the costume

new wig (Posted 10th October 2011)

as i borrowed my friends black wig for Ayacon and it was a brilliant wig but it was a bit to short

i have decided to get this wig from wonderland wigs as its long and has the right fringe plus its next day delivery ^^ and all i have to do is remove the curls and trim it to the right style and i will be one happy Garnet

breakage of the crown (Posted 6th October 2011)

we had to do an emergency repair on my crown today my sister picked it up wrong and a pointy bit cracked i managed to repair it with hot glue i hope it makes it to expo as its my pride and joy

crown (Posted 7th August 2011)

made from air clay and a plastic headband for shape and strength painted black then silver and dark silver shading

green beads to finish

Gold pattern with fabric paint (Posted 6th August 2011)

today i marked out the pattern and painted the gold fabric paint over the design needs another 2 coats but its coming along nicely

Gloves (Posted 3rd August 2011)

i made the gloves with leftover off white satin and covered it with the white polyester just like i did with the dress sections

then i edged the edges with white satin bias tape and embroidered the leaf pattern

Hooped skirt part two (Posted 3rd August 2011)

once i measured the length i needed the skirt to hang i measured out the white tulle and pinned it around the glow stick hoops and hand sewed the tulle around it and moved onto the next section and sewed that onto the 1st set

Hooped skirt part one (Posted 3rd August 2011)

i made a hooped skirt for going under the dress to make it easyer to walk in, i couldnt find one in my local town so i had not choise as im running out of time

i started off with making the hoops out of glow sticks and then wrapped them with black tape and then the last hoop i covered with white tape

Hair tie (Posted 3rd August 2011)

finished gold hair peice

beads arrived and the work begins (Posted 11th July 2011)

6 hours into the beading

tracing the details (Posted 11th July 2011)

once i cut out the templates i drew them onto the skirt with pencil

pendant (Posted 10th July 2011)

i bought this pendant 3 years ago in a local British heart foundation as it was a perfect stone for Garnet but never used it till now

leaf design template (Posted 10th July 2011)

i used a peice of pink craft foam to cut out the templates for the vines and leafs

outer skirt progress (Posted 10th July 2011)

the outer skirt was made buy cutting both fabric polyester outer layer and cotton under lining layer using a circle skirt pattern on the d shape and sewed then together on the hem.

once sewn i began to sketch the leaf design

detail begins (Posted 8th July 2011)

today after i have handsewed the 3 bodice peices together i sketched out the basic shape of the leaf design on Garnets dress

i did this in peicil now i have begun to sew this design with grean thread and will start adding the leafs b4 i add the beads ontop of the design so i have the same design on both sides of the bodice

dress front (Posted 7th July 2011)

here are the front peices for the boddice once sewn back together i will draw out the design for the leafs to be sewn on with the beads

base dress stripped (Posted 7th July 2011)

today i finished taking the dress back to the base pattern peice's the photo shown is the under dress that i have added tulle to help make the skirt fuller i may add more tulle if needed along with the hopped skirt later

this whole process took 2 days to fully take each bit of detail off the dress along with taking each seam out by hand

Extra fabric (Posted 5th July 2011)

as the base dress has only one train i had to buy extra fabric for her outter dress layer and her gloves

beads (Posted 5th July 2011)

these are the beads i will use for the leaf pattern on the dress and the headress

Base dress detail (Posted 1st July 2011)

this is the detail on the front and back of the dress and the outter fabric that will be removed from the dress and salvaged for my Amano Rosa

Base dress (Posted 1st July 2011)

this is my base dress that i will be taking to bits and using the base white fabric for the dress

refrence artwork (Posted 1st June 2011)

reference artwork