So while Tasha is getting a fully new suit, it looks like Hawkeye is just... freshening his up a bit with a new duster, undershirt, and a few new toys:
Because I had too much time on my hands immediately following DragonCon, I started collecting reference images in October of last year. Doing so showed me a few changes to his previous-issue equipment.
The quiver has had a bit of a redesign, as have his boots, doing away with the zipper up the back:
Other images also show what looks like a holster for additional arrowheads attached to each boot. I've yet to find a good, clear image of those, however.
His pants also appear to be made from a different material -- not as much texture, more of a matte/leather look.
As far as construction goes, I still consider myself intermediate, and attempts to fully draft my own patterns have given me mixed results; I've had much better success modifying patterns for use. For the duster/vest, I started looking around and found a possibility in another fandom: Simplicity 5386.
With a little adjustment, moving some seams, changing the shape of the collar, etc., I was able to come up with something a little closer to what I was seeing in the pics:
And then I came across this screen cap while I was browsing today:
::headdesk:: This neckline only reaffirms my love/hate feelings toward professional costume designers. Needless to say, I'm working on some new sketches for the vest. In the interim, I started messing around with the undershirt pattern, based off of Kwik Sew 3817:
The one thing about the neckline image is that it showed me there were two strips of trim on the shoulder, so I've incorporated that into the sketches and modifications; the arm and wrist guards will be added later, as an additional layer. Given that I'm working this a bit in advance, I know it won't be 100% screen accurate, but it'll be as close as the reference images allow.
For the base layer, I searched high and low for a nice, textured maroon and found nothing I was willing to work with. In the end, I found a "high performance spandex" in maroon from Spandex World that has a good weight to it and matches the cordura as well as anything else. For the vest, I chose the "Port"-colored 1000D cordura from Rocky Woods, layering it with some yardage from my own Black Widow stash -- the textures are very similar, and doing so brings a bit of cohesion to the pair. I'll use a tailoring fusible to give the spandex more body and heft against the cordura.
(Apologies for the mediocre picture. The Olfa mat always does weird things to my camera's color perception. It does, at least, show the close coordination between the spandex and the cordura!)
And all of this because I refuse to do too much on my own until I tone back up and lose some of my insulation! DH and I are hoping for a dry run at ComicPalooza in May, but we'll see. Engineering Tasha's suit is going to be an undertaking on its own... even with the oddball collar, this will be easy by comparison.
I think.
Because I had too much time on my hands immediately following DragonCon, I started collecting reference images in October of last year. Doing so showed me a few changes to his previous-issue equipment.
The quiver has had a bit of a redesign, as have his boots, doing away with the zipper up the back:
Other images also show what looks like a holster for additional arrowheads attached to each boot. I've yet to find a good, clear image of those, however.
His pants also appear to be made from a different material -- not as much texture, more of a matte/leather look.
As far as construction goes, I still consider myself intermediate, and attempts to fully draft my own patterns have given me mixed results; I've had much better success modifying patterns for use. For the duster/vest, I started looking around and found a possibility in another fandom: Simplicity 5386.
With a little adjustment, moving some seams, changing the shape of the collar, etc., I was able to come up with something a little closer to what I was seeing in the pics:
And then I came across this screen cap while I was browsing today:
::headdesk:: This neckline only reaffirms my love/hate feelings toward professional costume designers. Needless to say, I'm working on some new sketches for the vest. In the interim, I started messing around with the undershirt pattern, based off of Kwik Sew 3817:
The one thing about the neckline image is that it showed me there were two strips of trim on the shoulder, so I've incorporated that into the sketches and modifications; the arm and wrist guards will be added later, as an additional layer. Given that I'm working this a bit in advance, I know it won't be 100% screen accurate, but it'll be as close as the reference images allow.
For the base layer, I searched high and low for a nice, textured maroon and found nothing I was willing to work with. In the end, I found a "high performance spandex" in maroon from Spandex World that has a good weight to it and matches the cordura as well as anything else. For the vest, I chose the "Port"-colored 1000D cordura from Rocky Woods, layering it with some yardage from my own Black Widow stash -- the textures are very similar, and doing so brings a bit of cohesion to the pair. I'll use a tailoring fusible to give the spandex more body and heft against the cordura.
(Apologies for the mediocre picture. The Olfa mat always does weird things to my camera's color perception. It does, at least, show the close coordination between the spandex and the cordura!)
And all of this because I refuse to do too much on my own until I tone back up and lose some of my insulation! DH and I are hoping for a dry run at ComicPalooza in May, but we'll see. Engineering Tasha's suit is going to be an undertaking on its own... even with the oddball collar, this will be easy by comparison.
I think.
I also have issues with top stitching and what's really helped me in that regard is what's called a "stitch in the ditch" foot. They're made for quilters (hence the name) but that guide is not only helpful down a seam line, but for following a chalk line.
