WickedFaire is this weekend!  We're almost done with our costumes...

Behold, Pestilence:

 Corset is almost done!!  Here it's laying flat....

And here it is on the dummy!  Just have the ribs left to do...and finish my pannier!

Wickedfaire

...is chugging right along!  I'm holding on a few things (Delicious LLC is disappointing me lately...I should have my things by the next day since they're only in Philly but I've been waiting almost a week now -- so I can't do much more on the corset for now) pending materials and decisions, but here are some of the things that are going ahead!

 

 Outside of the corset.  It doesn't look like too much right now.

   

 Cutting bias for binding the corset edges and decorations elsewhere on the costume.

 

 And turning that bias into something useful!  On the right you see all of those strips cut out and sewn together...at the top is the finished product on a roll....and at the bottom you see my secret weapon, the bias tape maker!  It folds the edges of the fabric in place so that when you iron it you have perfect bias tape in whatever width you need.

 Hoop steel for the panniers....finally finished spray painting it, over a week after I started.  Would have gone faster if the paint wasn't much happier drying overnight.

 And my little pantaloons, about halfway done.  This was when I was on the way to sew on the waistband.  I need to finish that, hem and elasticise the bottoms, add some decoration, and attach a closure.

Still to do:

Style the wig (more to the point, fix the factory-arranged style)

Finish pants

Panniers (decide how to do them)

Finish corset

Paint and finish figuring out the ribs

Decorate shoes

Make necklace

Make chemise

Wicked Faire

We're a long way from done...no corset pictures yet...but I can show off a couple of things that are underway!

First is Phil's Pestulance mask, still in progress:

 And next is my first Steampunk weapon. No, nothing cobbled together like the good ones, just found one that looked appropriate and painted away...

Before:

And After (in progress.  Enjoy the blue tape):

My Physicist Husband got me roses...a week ago.  They're really holding up splendidly!  

And one of my projects -- wheel bearing necklace.  Just need a chain and it's ready for the silent auction!

Updates! And Pictures!!

It's a mitten!  I'm not wild with how it fits (I made it inside out...and it fits if you keep it that way, but it looks like crap, feel weird if you have it right side out...hopefully it'll be ok), and it still needs to be sewn together at the top and thumb...and I need to make the right one...but it's a mitten!

And my granny square bag is together!  Now it needs to be ironed, sewn together, and a strap done; I think I'm also going to cut out a lining in the shape before I sew everything together to make it stronger. 

Also started cutting out my corset for Wickedfaire....and I have a jar of denatured alcohol full of wheel bearings for some derby jewelry (earlier deadlines on that, i want to donate one for our next bout's silent auction in 2 weeks).  Snowflakes are soaking in fabric stiffener at work so I can block them when I have enough time in the evening/morning to set them out and get them back up before we need the tables.  Anything else for baby shower is looking unlikely, so booties and wrapping up a box of diapers it is!  (There will be plenty of winter left for her to get a baby hat.)  

For those interested, derby this weekend went skatingly.  Wilkes-Barre Scranton won the tourney; final scores were State College 290-Pottstown 50, WBS 156-LVRG 121, and WBS 159-SC 128.  Good games all around!  The day was not without its issues...but as I was not running the event, they were not mine!  It was almost relaxing to just do my assigned job and let the disasters be handled by someone else.  I'll see about posting the pictures (mostly non-derby) tomorrow!

Ok I lied

I had the start of Mom's mittens with me to show to a student who I'm teaching how to knit...

Nothing much to look at yet, just the wrist and beginning of the hand.  The yarn is this lovely Aran wool that was a gift from one of my coworkers from a recent trip to Ireland...it should be lovely and warm!

Granny Squares!

Spent part of my otherwise frustrating weekend crocheting like mad...I'm done with all the colored sections of the squares and now just need to do all the edging and put this together.

 The ones with the black borders are all done!

And the ones left to finish.

As Promised....

Masks, shaped!  Now I have to get around to painting them....

As promised, granny squares for the bag I'm working on.  I've gone with a different pattern than the original (below) since I had some issues getting it to look right.

 Mine

The original pattern

Aaaand I finished my PJ pants!  Only took me...well, a year since I bought the fabric.  I cut them out in August and only just finished them....yeah.