AEDM

Tuesday I finished attaching rings to the lavender floral dress, and um, something else but I forget what it was...

Tuesday and Wednesday I did a quick spritz of coating on the bat girl comb. Back and hip are being more bothersome than usual, so not too much activity on any front, although I did do a little research on netsuke, inro, ojime, etc. because I wasn't sure how to use the bat netsuke. I'd forgotten all about inro, actually -- not sure I'll have one or go with a soft container, which I've also seen. Yes, it's for a costume, not re-enactment, but modeling things on actual Japanese stuff will give a better feel to the total "look" -- and Batgirl does need to have a "utility belt" ;)

Soaked in the tub yesterday and will do so again today; still working on making that a more regular thing, as I really should...

Had L take some pics of the re-vamped dress; will work on posting pics, not only of that but some from the development of the dress as well. Going to see if a friend has any pictures of me in the dress as I originally made it...

Creating flowers from sleeves

Found the pics from when I was documenting how I made the lower half of the sleeves from the floral dress into flowers, so I thought I'd post them here.

Should be mostly self-explanatory, I think. I left the buttons on as sort of like stamen/pistil bits. Near the end of the pics you'll see that I made a stem/calyx/base, because I wanted the flowers to stand up a bit and face outward, not upward. It's kind of hard to explain exactly what I did in some places, but I essentially created the petal effect by gathering and folding in a puff, then twisting the fabric to create the folds I wanted, and then stitched them into place.















On the detachable mini-bustle


I didn't take pics of the construction for that, unfortunately, but I'll take a couple pics it and the attachment system at some point.