Cosplay Atelier

Ten & his... companions, Rose, lost love, "blondes", daughter... A blog about how costuming and Doctor Who turned me into a seamstress. *** I am sorry that I cannot "follow for follow", this is not my primary blog. **** The empowering thing about period sewing is that thousands upon thousands of women who came before you accomplished this task with vastly fewer resources. You can do this. I started sewing in mid-September 2014.

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I came over here to grab some old photos and realized it had been a whole year since I posted. For those of you who are still interested, I am on Instagram as hoppin_bobbin. THAT page is very active. The photo above is the project I am finishing up now. 🙂

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Back at it for a little bit tonight... I got off-the-charts frustrated with this thing earlier this month 😡. Determined that it needed to be a labor of love in order to properly commemorate our 10 year anniversary, I put it down. However, it is now apparent that I will not make my November 19 deadline 😕. Well, more important that I kept it positive I think.

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So nervous about doing Judy's face. You can clearly seen me deliberately working around it. It's so intricate and small compared to Nick's.

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Lots of work went in this over the weekend; I hope you can tell! Next weekend I look forward to working on the undergarments for a brand new project... Antebellum Cinderella!!

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The saga continues. Starting to fill in all over the place. You want to trust the color selections in the pattern but that bright baby blue is just atrocious. I think it has to come out. I already bought a replacement color.

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Back into the box she goes.... DragonCon is almost over my friends. I will upload photos, stories and news of new projects soon.

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Hair trials for Clara and Madame de Pompadour. On Clara that is the makeup too. Clara gets stage makeup because hopefully I will get her past prejudging and be on the stage. I sleep now? -his

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I didn't make a single stitch of it but here is my Jessica Jones. 🙂 I prefer the frills and lace and ruffles but Ten is going as Kilgrave sooooo....

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There. Purse. Clara has a bloody purse. All so when I am in front of the judges for the costume contest 19th century Clara won't have a cell phone in her hand. This little thing was a pain in the *^# 😠. Grouchy cosplayer.

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Ten's hand (and mine) in my great great uncle's sewing palm from his time in the navy. Fits Ten just a little better than me don't you think? (The navy issues them to sailors for sewing sails.) I have a little project for Ten to do tomorrow with it on Clara's train. He'll be installing the eye for a certain hook and eye. This is the first work on Clara that I didn't do myself 😞 but there's only so many layers of fabric I can physically punch through without impaling myself on the dull end of a needle 😕. -his

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Rose's new shoes are ready for varnish! ....oh wait but the brand new bottle of varnish I ordered is rock solid... and unavailable in a brick and mortar store near me. 😖 fingers crossed the replacement I just ordered arrives on time and in liquid form. The lines on the heel came out nice though, there's that ...😥

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Peeptoes cut out and two coats on. I am calling that a nights work.

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Seems I am about to become one of those crazies that MAKES their Idiot's Lantern shoes....

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It’s been a long while my lovelies but Clara is D-O-N-E. Ten and I are super hectic here with final preparations but here she is!

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Clara brooch trials showing great promise!!

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Some really precise and extensive seam grading and the collar lays much nicer! 😍

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At some point the photos of this jacket will stop, that day is not today. The trim along the front is now done! The trim for the sleeve hems is next. I whined about it A LOT while I was working on it but I am really happy with it now 🙂.