One Greek chiton, one robe made from dustsheets. Machine embroidery around the neckline. Some artistic license used – no actual proof of anything like this ever existing.
Tag: Odyssey
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#27: Charcoal Bag
Picked up a nice basket today to keep charcoal in for my new bell tent stove. But there were gaps in the weaving, and if I put a basket full of charcoal in the car it’s going to go everywhere.
One quick black drawstring bag later, and problem solved.
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#26: Carthage Mantle
Adam picked up a plain hood at Empire from Darkblade and asked me if I’d attach it to his cloak and make it a bit more carthage.
Well, here it is! Sewn to the front of the cloak to keep it on without fastening, and lots of eyelets added with beads on them.
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#21: Minoan Tiered Skirt
So… I wanted to upgrade my Odyssey costume. Yes, there are only two events left. No, that doesn’t matter to me. I think it’s important to do what I can between each event.
This is what it looks like roughly assembled with the other kit.
And this is what it looked like before:
This shot shows how MASSIVE the skirt is. It’s a traditional Gypsy dancing skirt that is often worn by belly dancers. It has a 20m hem, but because it’s made from really light Cotton Voile it’s not too heavy.
And it’s loosely based on Minoan Snake Goddess sculptures:
I made all the ruffles on my Overlocker. 40 meters of ruffles took me less than an hour.
And they looked like this when I laid them out on my lounge floor:
And finally, this is in the middle of pinning the final 20m hem to the bottom of the skirt before sewing it!
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#20: Worm’s Tagelmust
I offered to pop up to Tahims in Coventry to get a friend some fabric for his Odyssey costume. It’s beautiful fabric this – what they use for making Sikh Turbans. And it’s only £1.35 a meter. I’m planning on writing up a tutorial for LARP Guide because I used my GoPro to film the process. Stay tuned!
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#19: Murder Robes
Absolutely no murdering will be happening in these robes that I put together.
Deliberate oversized baggy fit, extra wide sleeves, dark grey fabric trimmed with mid grey bias tape.
First time I’d used commercially made bias tape and I have to admit, it holds a crease really well which allows you to get great accuracy when putting it on in a single pass.
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#18: Roman Tunic
I started this a couple of years ago. And it sat unfinished in my cupboard for quite a long time. Then last year I noticed a friend playing a Roman who wears blue, so I checked if it fitted her and promised I’d finish it for her. Then I realised the game is next month… cue finally finishing it!
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#8: Octopus Dice Bag
A test piece for a new endeavour. (Ssssh… it’s all a bit under wraps at the moment). It needs it’s drawstring, but it’s almost there.
Hand dyed fabric left over from Simon’s Mythlore costume and a cute Octopus from Urban Threads.
I learned a few things during construction, mostly that I need to make the base fabric another half inch or so wide for it to be able to fit on the free arm of the machine and make construction much, much easier. I need to use a measuring foot for accurate stitching of the cord channel. And I need to batch construct these pieces to make it more worthwhile.
I’m also teaching myself to digitise images on my embroidery software, for a top secret project with a friend.
I have this test piece left over, I have no idea what to do with him. 😀
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The Day Before Atlantis
I’m fucking awesome at doing everything at the last minute.
Like today.
I got a whole load of my costume finished.
Last night I hand finished the hem’s on my murder robes – there’s about four days of hand sewing in this thing.
And the back:
That’s the seam inside the hood:
And what the inside seams look like:
Just a close up of that nice, almost invisible hand stitching:
Then I got started on hemming the sleeves of the bottom layer of robes. Fancy decorative stitches on the sewing machine meant I didn’t have to hand sew it invisibly:
And I also tacked down the neck facing, you can see it showing through here because I’d just ironed it:
Then I figured that I had to add a new project to the mix. This is something very loosely based on Arya Stark’s belt in the new Game of Thrones series. I’m going to make a second one I think to go over it, made from hemp cord and beads:
The fastening, same as I used on the Mythlore belt:
And then knotted and all together with the top layers. I also have a hero style belt to wear over it, so you won’t see the cord the macrame is attached to:
Then after going to see Rich at Evenlode, we had chips in Chipping Norton. Wonder if this is where David Cameron gets his chips from. They were pretty good:
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Dorne Armour Inspiration
So…
Game of Thrones happened.
And the Dorne armour is beautiful.
And now I need this sash to go under my belt for my Minoan costume this weekend.
And Simon’s Mythlore costume needs the embroidered gambeson.
