Started sketching away and more importantly looking at stills of the movie to see what are some of the key features of the costumes to make. And looking at a lot of cosplay that has been done. The exact details seem less important in doing an effective one than the overall look of all three coming together. And a few iconic pieces. As I'm going as Winnifred, I feel the need to pay close attention. Plus, hers is literally the more elaborate one. So at this point, I've obtained a purple dress that is long and has 3/4 sleeves. I'm intending to modify it by adding some gold ribbon/cord to the front to simulate medievalesque stays. And I've also obtained (via my newly opened large Joann fabrics) six yards of green crushed velvet. I'm coordinating with Sarah about the level of swoopiness I want in the sleeves. But basically I'll be making a coat that will go over the dress, have giant sleeves, and have gold symbols running up and down the edges.
In trying to figure out the best way to add the symbols, I've been finding this blog particularly useful:
https://www.morganmakesstuff.com/home/2017/11/2/fun-with-fabric-paints. This girl, Morgan, did the science I was going to do and tried out a range of different ways to put paint on velvet. So I'll probably go with her recommendations. The only thing I did find at Joanns that was intriguing was a gold fabric paint spray. But that requires stencils over freehand. I'll have to see how it all goes. Experimentation will likely be needed. But first I need to make the house coat.
As far as the other costumes go, I actually found a purple skirt in the basement as I was cleaning out a back room that would likely work well for the Sarah costume with some pink material either sewn or draped around the hips. I'm encouraged.
This project was for Halloween. Not my Halloween, my uncle's, who is doing an Egyptian/cursed mummy tomb haunt this year. He had been looking for some scarab beetles, but they are surprisingly hard to find in bulk, so I went about looking about how to get him some. I found a site that claimed an easy way to make silicone molds. Then I went and carved a scarab beetle (or at least, as depicted in Egyptian hieroglyphics) out of oven bake clay, along with a couple of other Egyptian symbols. I unfortunately didn't take many pics of this as everything went pretty quickly and I got a lot of silicone on my hands and picking up my phone at that time seemed like a tremendously stupid idea. I ended up with a bunch of silicone molds that my uncle could fill with plaster and make however many items he wanted.
