With all this free time, I’ve been nudged to stop being mopey and to get back to being busy.
That means back to writing, and back to sewing.
Looking at an entry here from September just before I was laid off, I had the following sewing projects planned:
Sleepy Hollow Striped Gown
By the Seaside dress from Sweeney Todd
Yellow and Pink gown from Marie Antionette
Pink Diamonds from Moulin Rouge!
Black Diamonds from Mouin Rouge!
Green Bustle ball gown from Interview with the Vampire
Elizabethan Irish court gown
Queen Redd from The Looking Glass Wars
Hatter M from The Looking Glass Wars
Disneyland Alice dress
Disneyland Mad Hatter suit
Silver gown from Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Green doublet gown from Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Attonment green gown
Ellen’s prayer gown from Gone With the Wind
Boarding suit and hat from Titanic
Mary Poppins Jolly Holiday
Red ball gown from Vanity Fair
Red bustle gown from Dracula
Green bustle gown from Deadwood
And in these 4 months I’ve been very neglectful to completing this list.
I did make the Disneyland version of the Alice in Wonderland costume. So that’s something! Though I’ve had no excuse to wear it, and have not even taken a photo of the completed project.
I also made a Victorian riding gown, but again no photos yet. The gown was made to be worn at the Dicken’s Victorian Christmas fair in San Francisco which I ended up not attending.
From the list I wish I had made the Sleepy Hollow gown, and the Sweeney Todd gown. On Saturday I’m attending a Tim Burton themed birthday party and either costume would have been great to wear. Instead I decided to put together a Mad Hatter a ‘la Johnny Depp in the Alice in Wonderland film Burton is currently filming. So no one will know who I’m meant to be, and no one will know how accurate my costume is because I’m confident I’m the only person obsessive enough to have sought out the images of the costume in the first place.
Discussion has also started on Comicon and what our group will wear.
This will mean more sewing-I have no idea how much. But an idea I’d like to do and am not sure I could pull off would be The Scarlet Witch:
and sew it goes…