My wife and I are working on a Seraphina Picquery costume that we're trying to have done for the January HP Celebration in Orlando. While she was sewing on Percival, I started on what we refer to as the breast plate. First I cut up gold sparkle ribbon per a sketch I created which was cut up as a template and glued to the back of the ribbon using stencil adhesive. I then cut out the pieces, applied fray check to all the cut edges and when this set, I glued these gold pieces to a piece of teal fabric:
I did the same for blue ribbon. It's not quite the right shade, but was the best I could find:
The pieces were numbered.
Using another template I stitched and glued on strings of teal beads:
My wife laid out the pattern for the dress on an old sheet as a test:
The sleeve needed an extra seem on top for the split at the elbow:
As far as we can determine the edge trim will be made up of three different trims. The first one sewn on was gold baby rick-rack:
The sleeve is lined with gold tone organza:
The dress so far:
The material was a teal paisley fabric we found at JoAnns.
Of course now that the movie is out and there are high res images available, it's pretty obvious the breast plate was actually done as beadwork. Must have been a lot of work!
ATL
I did the same for blue ribbon. It's not quite the right shade, but was the best I could find:
The pieces were numbered.
Using another template I stitched and glued on strings of teal beads:
My wife laid out the pattern for the dress on an old sheet as a test:
The sleeve needed an extra seem on top for the split at the elbow:
As far as we can determine the edge trim will be made up of three different trims. The first one sewn on was gold baby rick-rack:
The sleeve is lined with gold tone organza:
The dress so far:
The material was a teal paisley fabric we found at JoAnns.
Of course now that the movie is out and there are high res images available, it's pretty obvious the breast plate was actually done as beadwork. Must have been a lot of work!
ATL
