Felgacarb
Sr Member
Since I still had some microsuede left over from previous projects, I decided it was time to attempt a Star Trek: The Next Generation costume. I've never made a TNG outfit before.
Since I love jackets, I chose to start with Picard's, first seen in the 5th season episode "Darmok":
Of course, that was the only episode that featured that version of the jacket- in all subsequent appearances in the last three seasons we saw this version, that was not leather:
So that is the one I went for.
Step one, the tee shirt and sharpie pattern method:
Then on to paper patterns- first for a scrap material mock-up, then the real thing.
Again, I'm using fusible interfacing on almost all of the microsuede pieces to give it the proper body.
Putting the detail stitching stripes onto the shoulder parts:
These also got a layer of stuffing to pad them a bit.
It is not difficult, just very, very tedious.
Then came the assembly:
After that I made a lining and installed it. The last steps were the waistband and cuffs- just like the shoulders- extra padding a lots of tedious sewing.
Attaching these gave me problems. I had hopped to accomplish these final steps on the overlock machine, but with all the padding, it proved too thick for my machine to handle. So I used the regular machine (And I'll have to deal with the inside edges another way.)
So here it what it looks like- I haven't yet made the correct shirt or pants, so I substituted my Scotty pants & shirt for now:
Thanks for looking!
Since I love jackets, I chose to start with Picard's, first seen in the 5th season episode "Darmok":
Of course, that was the only episode that featured that version of the jacket- in all subsequent appearances in the last three seasons we saw this version, that was not leather:
So that is the one I went for.
Step one, the tee shirt and sharpie pattern method:
Then on to paper patterns- first for a scrap material mock-up, then the real thing.
Again, I'm using fusible interfacing on almost all of the microsuede pieces to give it the proper body.
Putting the detail stitching stripes onto the shoulder parts:
These also got a layer of stuffing to pad them a bit.
It is not difficult, just very, very tedious.
Then came the assembly:
After that I made a lining and installed it. The last steps were the waistband and cuffs- just like the shoulders- extra padding a lots of tedious sewing.
Attaching these gave me problems. I had hopped to accomplish these final steps on the overlock machine, but with all the padding, it proved too thick for my machine to handle. So I used the regular machine (And I'll have to deal with the inside edges another way.)
So here it what it looks like- I haven't yet made the correct shirt or pants, so I substituted my Scotty pants & shirt for now:
Thanks for looking!
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