Step 5 Begun and Done!

I'm finished cutting out all the pieces I need for the dress, and I have plans for a friend to help me tape it all together later today. It only took me two or three days to finish cutting it all, mostly backstage during rehearsals again. I've been cuting out a lot more stars too, and I've started stringing them together to use for the train. It'll be about three feet long, maybe more.

I'll try to remember to take a picture of the pieces before we tape it all together. Happy New Year!

Mannequin

Ok, the shoes are pretty much done except for sticking the stars on. I'll wait to post a picture until they're finished. Or maybe I should wait till I enter the contest and everyone can see them...

So, something funny happened to me yesterday. I've started cutting out the pieces for the dress and I decided to use some plain duct tape to make a dress form/mannequin. I've read the best way to do this is to wear an old t-shirt and have someone else wrap you up and cut you out, so that's what I did. Except since it was 11 at night, I skipped the "someone else" part. Being pretty flexible, I wrapped myself up with no problems and was quite satisfied with the result. That done, I went to go cut myself out. Although I was flexible enough to pass the duct tape roll behind my upper back and beneath my arms while keeping the tape straight, I could not cut more than halfway down my back while still being able to operate the scissors. I didn't want to cut down the front, so I ended up asking my sister to cut me out of my latest project.

In the end, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and I'll post a picture after I stuff it. Any idea what I should stuff it with?

Shoes

So a took a little break from the dress and worked a bit on the shoes. I took a pair of old shoes and cut most of the straps off but I did leave a couple on for support and something for the duct tape to stick to. I've got one mainly done, it just needs the decorations and such now. It took me two hours to get the shape right, but it fits quite comfortably. I'm going to go make the other one now...

Step 4 Complete!!!

Yay!!!!! I just finished taping all of the cloth I need. Hopefully that was the most tedious part of making this thing and now I can get a move on it and finish piecing the dress together by the end of break...

It's a whole lot of cloth, I think it's about 4-5 yards of cheap, black cotton stuff and it took a little more than five rolls of duct tape to cover it. I'll probably have enough left over for my collaborator's jacket... (So five black and I think I've used about six rolls of chrome altogether for the stars)

Christmas Break!!!

Well, I didn't get anything done last break, there was too much other stuff going on. But I will finish putting the dress together by the end of this break, I really have no excuses this time and I just need to if it's going to be done on time.