tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51410398989540581952024-02-19T05:50:03.573+01:00Sew Impossiblethe Tales of the Victorian Vampire Vikingwyrdvikingdesignhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305162498171853577noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141039898954058195.post-42282375869386864892015-11-01T17:35:00.004+01:002015-11-01T17:35:19.528+01:00Dragon dress: Embellishment <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Please zoom in, I didn't use 200+ hours on this <br />for people to look at a tiny photo.</td></tr>
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After the official deadline for this project, I continued applying beads and such to the dress whenever I had a free moment. The last semester of school I wasn't very social. No life, only sewing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I developed a burning hatred for pearls.<br />So pretty. But so fed up with them.</td></tr>
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I started out sewing the bead appliques I made and the dragonscale smocking onto the dress, before applying beads all around them, working them into the fabric and such. Looking back, I think the beads I sewed directly onto the dress look more organic than the ones I sewed onto organza first, so there's something to remember if I ever decide to do anything like this again.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WIP: Started on the embroidery.</td></tr>
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On the dresses worn by Daenerys Targaryen in GoT, t<a href="http://www.michelecarragherembroidery.com/Daenerys-Dragonscale-Gallery(2880136).htm">he dragonscale smocking is worked into the fabric of the dress with an embroidery stitch called lock stitch.</a> And since I was unwilling to shell out a whole lot of money for the pamphlet in which it is described, I looked to the interwebz to figure out how to do it. No such luck. In spite of having teachers who have sewn as long as I have lived, in addition to being blessed with a classmate who is a walking embroidery lexicon - we found nothing.<br />
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So I put off doing any embroidery for a long itme (in the meantime I just sewed more and more beads onto the dress). Until one day I realised I would just have to wing it and make it work with a buttonhole stitch or something - which I didn't want to do, I wanted to do it properly. So I googled it one final time, in despair I might add, and <a href="http://pintangle.com/2014/09/09/take-a-stitch-tuesday-129-and-130-lock-and-double-lock-stitch/">GUESS WHAT I FOUND</a>. Not perfect, but a tutorial I could work from.<br />
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It was finished in time, a week before our fashion show and exhibition. After graduation I wore it to Desucon. I don't know if you can tell, but while fire cannot kill a dragon, the sun scorched my collarbones quite a lot that day.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The result.</td></tr>
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It's finished - for now. I think I'll redo the bodice seams, after working on it and worn it, there's some puckering. I also have a ton of beads left, so I could embellish the hips as well like planned on the design, but for the moment I don't want to see this thing again. So for now, it'll hang in my closet, hopefully reminding me to never do something like this ever again.wyrdvikingdesignhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305162498171853577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141039898954058195.post-63132833130465878522015-10-29T14:33:00.000+01:002015-10-29T14:33:06.977+01:00Dragon dress: SewingWe had nine days to make the dress and the boards for the presentation. Nine days isn't a lot of time when you know every seam will be inspected and scrutinized - and it's not only sewing, things need to be ironed, cut, marked, overlocked and pressed, you have to sew zippers, hems, lining and handsew details, not to mention all the decoration this dress design called for.<br />
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During the last two weeks before finalization I always worked with this project. I made dragonscale smocking on the tube to and from school. When the school closed at nine in the evening, I sat at home and handstitched pearls a few hours before bed. Even when I slept, I dreamed about the dress.<br />
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It was actually the first time I sewed anything in silk. (I thought <a href="http://sewimpossible.blogspot.no/2014/05/hsf-challenge-8-ufos-phds-or-what-i.html">the Victorian gown from last year</a> was silk, but turns out it wasn't.) Silk dupion is a dream to work with, it presses so easily, but since I laid my pattern pieces so that the weft is diagonal, it frays like crazy. In addition I have to be super careful when I sew, otherwise the organza moves. I have taken up so many seams, and it irks me that I don't have time to hand baste everything together.<br />
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This was what it looked like after one day's work. There's a hidden zipper in the back, and the hip pieces are only pinned onto the doll. The colours proved to be hard to photograph, so please trust me, it looks okay.<br />
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Oh yes, low quality phone pics, but you can see what the dress looks like after I got the organza parts sewn onto it. On the bottom part of the prganza I have used a clear nail polish to seal it, and brushed on a gold metallic acrylic over. The colour of the organza and the dupion underneath, shifts wonderfully when walking in it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Started sewing the embellishment on.</td></tr>
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This is only the first layer of embellishment. The ultimate goal is to work it into the fabric, embroider around and make it look organic, like it's all one fabric.<br />
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And this is how far I got in nine days. There's still a lot left to do until it looks like I want it to, but for the moment it's presentable. </div>
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What I love most about rhubarb is definitely eating it, but the colour the leaves give is nice as well. I'm looking forward to using the whole plant when the time for rhubarb jam and cobbler comes next year. </div>
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I've taken to calling this project "fifty shades of yellow". (Because I am a little bitter about it, I like neither the book series or yellows, at all.) But the strong colours that the turmeric dye gave, are nice enough that it's hard to completely hate them. </div>
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How do I explain this colour without sounding crazy? I boil my taters with some rosemary, because that turns into noms. One day I forgot about it and would have ended up with fried potatoes if I hadn't remembered in time. The taters were saved, but when I took them out of the water I noticed that the water was really brown. So I put in some alun and a small skein of yarn. For science. Of course it ended up... yellowish.<br />
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I set up a rule, that I was not to use foodstuffs that could be consumed, for dye. And even so, I wanted to use coffee for dyeing. So this is coffee that's already been used, and collected over a few days in the freezer before being made into dye. Since the coffee bean is technically a berry, I set the colour with salt and not alun. </div>
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When I was younger, I used visit my grandparents a lot. We'd go up in the mountains and pick berries in fall. One of the things I'd insist on making was blueberry ... Since I was the only one who liked it, the bottles would just collect over the years, and we still have some left, so I took a bottle from 2005, and used it as dye. </div>
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I've been told that blueberry dye isn't very colourfast, so I've hung up one of the skeins in a window to see if it fades. After a week it holds up quite well - but then again, we haven't had much sun either! (Oh, the joys of living above the polar circle.)</div>
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Gothic horror. Late Victorian costumes. Billowing nightgowns. How is a girl to resist?<br />
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When I planned this year's Halloween costume in February, I was going as <a href="http://www.asset1.net/tv/pictures/movie/the-woman-in-black-angel-of-death-2014/The-Woman-in-Black-Angel-of-Death-DI-1.jpg">the Woman in Black</a>, but after watching the trailer (and suffering a sleepless night because aaaaaugh!) I remembered I had eleven meters white fabric just lying around.<br />
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The nightgown is sewn in two layers. The overlayer is a see-through polyester something with slubs, over a modesty layer of plain ol' boring cotton. I made the pattern from a sloper, for practice,. I started in July, so I had plenty of time to torment myself over every tiny bit of the costume, from pattern to what kind of interfacing would be best to use.<br />
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I made far too many sleeve toiles, and even took the time to baste everything by hand. Usually I just pin and sew <i>very </i>carefully. The insides are neatly finished (as usual), the yoke is lined, and weirdly, overall I am pleased with it. When I finish anything, I usually have a list over things I would have done differently.<br />
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I live in the middle of nowhere, so in my experience, what I can get of sewing notions and such is rather limited. And yet, sometimes I go to the shop with the lowest expectations and find small treasures, like these pearl buttons.<br />
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The buttons are just for show. I dreaded sewing button holes since my machine would rather eat fabric than do as I want, so I evaded the whole thing and sewed some pushbuttons in underneath instead. The lower sleeves have functionable buttons at the wrist.<br />
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While lining the yoke I put the dress onto a mannequin. It made lining very much easier, but every time I left the room and came back in, I'd almost give myself a heart attack. Toughest viking in town.wyrdvikingdesignhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305162498171853577noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141039898954058195.post-77475606015178857292015-09-03T07:30:00.000+02:002015-09-03T07:30:01.272+02:00Plant dyeing (and more)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Even though I'd ended up with a colour that wasn't yellow, I still felt like experimenting, and remembered I had some useless food colouring lying around. I used vinegar as a fixative.<br />
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And then over to plant dyes again - powdered paprica. The colour turned out a nice orange, but not as deep as I'd expected. </div>
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And here's a picture of all the colours I've made so far. I love how the golden heather yarn pops forth here (left, under the blue).</div>
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Between the larger projects at school, I did some smaller scale stuff for myself that I haven't gotten around to blog about. </div>
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I planned to sell the peredhil gown, so I fixed it up a little before changing my mind. It's been on many an adventure and ended up looking a bit too shabby for me to send it off with a clear conscience. But there's lots of fabric in it, so it's waiting to be cut up and made into something else.<br />
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This cotton poplin was bought in Finland a few years ago. It laid around waiting for the perfect project, and I love how the skirt turned out. Lightweight, easy to sew and the skirt is perfect for spinning around in. Closes with a zip in the back.<br />
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I had an old leather suitcase that fell apart, so I made it into <a href="http://sewimpossible.blogspot.no/2014/07/iron-age-shoes-helas-crown.html">iron age shoes</a> and three corset belts as pictured.<br />
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Most of the things I've made have been historically inspired, so I haven't worked a lot with more modern inventions such as fusible interlinings and batting. I tried out a few different interlinings with collars made <a href="https://files.kollabora.com/sites/default/files/styles/project_main_images/public/13118/files/DIY%20embellished%20Peter%20Pan%20collar%20pattern.jpeg?itok=LJ-aDwzM">from this pattern</a>.<br />
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This underbust vest was a late Yule present for a friend. I made it in January, at school and my energetic go getter teacher was really impressed that I'd started making this year's presents a few weeks into the new year. I didn't have the heart to tell her.<br />
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This vest is old, but it's one of the things I haven't posted about because the fabric is impossible to photograph.<br />
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The <a href="http://sewimpossible.blogspot.no/2015/01/rag-quilt.html">rag quilt I started on last December</a> is finished, just in time, because autumn rolled around a few days ago and it got cold really quick.<br />
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My first smokkr was sewn with side gores, a cut that doesn't fit my body type, so it's off to a new owner in Denmark.wyrdvikingdesignhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305162498171853577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141039898954058195.post-61493824672709716292015-08-29T16:48:00.003+02:002015-08-29T16:48:48.652+02:00Plant dyeing<div>
The <a href="http://sewimpossible.blogspot.no/2014/10/adventures-in-dyeing.html">first time I tried plant dyeing</a>, the result was somehow disappointing. During Easter, I tried to dye the same shirt a deeper red, with red beets. Didn't work that either.<br />
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But third time's the charm, so when I sat with large amounts of strawberries, I decided to try again. And having read more about dyeing, this time I used wool, since linen is one of the harder materials to dye.<br />
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One of my mistakes from last time was that I let the fabric lie in a cold dyebath. Now I let the yarn simmer lightly for an hour. Since this was berry dye, I used salt as a fixative.<br />
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When the strawberry dye worked out fine, I couldn't stop there. I gathered some fireweed and bought alum to use as a fixative. I didn't think the dye bath would smell very good, but it filled the house with the scent of rhubarb jam. A few people were disappointed when they realised what I was cooking wasn't edible. And the colour turned out an amazing neon yellow! <br />
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I did a lot of research, got a dye vat and biked out to the mountains to gather plants to use.<br />
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So I used the ferns, and... <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/358106607843339141/">wasn't this supposed to be reddish brown?</a> And the birch bark ended up as a pale beige, maybe because I only used bark from dead trees. But the colour you end up with depends on the mordant used, so maybe I should have used an iron mordant to get the darker colours I'd seen online.<br />
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I was a bit tired of yellow, so I did more research, focusing on plants I could find in Norway, that were easy to find and most importantly, <i>don't </i>yield yellow dye!<br />
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I got spinach from the store and ruthlessly dug up dandelion roots from the garden. The colours I expected were green and brown, but no. So I'm making an iron mordant with a few rusty nails in vinegar, and when it's finished brewing in a week or two, I'm trying again. </div>
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What I bought at this market differs a bit from previous purchases. This is the second market where I stay onsite, so there was need for period correct cutlery and such. I bought a wooden plate, a lovely ceramic cup, and a knife that will look quite amazing hanging in my belt when it isn't in use. The handle of the knife is antler, so I'm thinking of carving a design into it.<br />
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I bought a bit of wax for handsewing, as my hatred runs hot for the utterly useless commerical wax sold in stores around here, a horn spoon and an airtight birch box for spices. I got some food as well, raw honey and rose honey (amazing), and a few sausages.<br />
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Earlier this year I told myself no more viking jewellery. Luckily you forget such ridiculous notions after a few days at market...<br />
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The set of tortoise brooches I already had are nice, but they're an occasional aggravation, it takes so little for the left brooch to fall open. So I got a new, simpler pair without holes for pearl strings. Wearing pearls isn't practical at all times. I also got a twisted silver ring, a few glass pearls and a Pitney brooch. The logo of my viking group is based on the Pitney brooch, so most of us has a copy.<br />
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I planned to look for a bag and period correct shoes at this market. I didn't love any of the bags they had, but after two days without something to carry things around in I just caved and bought a plain one. Leatherworking is next on the list of viking things I want to try, so I can perhaps decorate it myself.<br />
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Having bought a belt and a bag, there's only one thing left on my must haves this season. Sadly, no one sold shoes at the market, so I bought a pair of ankle high shoes online.<br />
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I fell in love with <a href="http://www.lofoten-wool.no/">Lofoten Wool</a>, a company that makes the most magnificent yarn. It's local wool, all natural dye, it's super fluffy and strong. The one I bought is coloured with madder. They also sold books on plant dyes, and I've been experimenting with good results so far.wyrdvikingdesignhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305162498171853577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141039898954058195.post-12654533428378485192015-08-23T07:30:00.000+02:002015-08-23T07:30:00.452+02:00Lofotr Viking Festival<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The pics of me (c) <a href="https://annethearcher.wordpress.com/lofotr-2015/">annethearcher</a>. Follow the link for way more pictures.<br />
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When I was moving from Oslo about a month ago, I was suddenly faced with a tiny problem of 30 metres of fabric that suddenly materialized in one of my closets. (Strange how you buy a few metres of fabric here and there and it adds up to ... far too much.) Some of the fabric I had plans for, so I cut out the pieces I needed, gave the rest away, and wow, there was a lot less to pack.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I came home to the nicest postcard ever.</td></tr>
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I made a woolen birka coat in a loosely wowen twill bought at Borre last year. Looking at the fabric now I'm not sure how period correct it is, so it will have to be a last minute resort this year and then transition to my modern wardrobe. I'll make a better one for the next season.<br />
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Since I knew it wasn't 100% period anyway, I decided not to waste time handsewing. It's machine sewn, with polyester, and lined with a blend of silk noile/raw cotton. Not period, but very warm, which might be needed. (That noise you're hearing might be period purists screaming somewhere in the distance. Extremely sorry.)<br />
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I did better on my next project. My half circle cloak made me feel like a failed larper who had stumbled into a viking market, so I cut it up and made a shirt. It's sewn in diagonally woven wool from Skaar Tekstil, and sewn by hand with woolen thread.<br />
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It's supposed to be male clothing, so this is the first viking project where I haven't fitted anything or snuck any shaping into the pattern. It'll be used to the shirt I dyed last year, but first I need to make pants. (I think I'll snuggle into this shirt outside markets as well, it's so comfy.)<br />
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The nalbound socks from last year have been darned so many times I just gave up on them, so I made a new pair. Woolen socks don't generally last long with me as I use them almost year round. In my eternal search of sock yarn that will last more than a few months use, I made a compromise with these socks... 20% of this "wool" comes from the nylon sheep...<br />
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A few days ago I realised waltzing around a market in one serk for five days probably wouldn't be very good for anyone involved. (Looking like a viking doesn't mean you have to smell like one.)<br />
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Pattern construction is very fun when everything goes your way. When you get unexpected difficulties, on the other hand... I had planned my construction thinking the slubs in dupion run down the fabric, but turns out they run across. Long story short, I'd done a lot of work for nothing.<br />
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When things like this happen, it's <strike>the end of the world</strike> time for a break. I printed some inspiration for the embellishment I was going to do on the dress and put it in the sketch book. It's very therapeutic.<br />
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I'm still pretty new to pattern construction, so to be sure everything looks like it should, I often tape together a test. The protuding shoulder part had been draped and then transferred to the paper construction. In 3D I was able to see that there was a sharp edge between those two parts, and then fixed it.<br />
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Some of the people in my class took a trip out to one of the largest fabric stores in Norway. For a person whose only options for getting fabric has been a craft store selling only quilting cotton or an interior store that <i>sometimes </i>has curtains that can be cut up and used for other things, entering this building is like Yule and Halloween on the same day.<br />
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I went relatively berserk and bought all of the pretties. There's everything from studs, to pearls to sequins. In addition to the fruits of my raid, I already had loads of stuff lying around.<br />
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The dress will be sewn in red and orange silk dupion mounted on silk organza. Because the embellishment will be rather heavy, the top will have an extra foundation layer of cotton muslin and shoulderpads made from cotton canvas. The floating effect one the sides will be done with silk organza that will be softened and crinkled by pouring hot water on it and letting it dry wrinkled up.</div>
wyrdvikingdesignhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305162498171853577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141039898954058195.post-77432915278353489482015-07-25T16:54:00.004+02:002015-07-25T17:09:33.171+02:00Oslo Medieval MarketIn between far too many exams and sewing in blind panic for the fashion show at school, I went to Oslo Medieval festival. Just one of the days, but the day when it didn't rain. (Hah.)<br />
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I fell in love with this lovely leather bag a la Frankenstein's monster made by leather scraps stitched together. A little out of my price range, sorrowfully.<br />
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I tried to keep my purchases sensible, because I have most of the small things you need for reenactment. It's always tempting to buy jewellery and such, but I need to control this because I have enough. The amount of viking glitter and pretties you can put on at once is limited. This season I'm looking for a belt, a bag and some proper shoes.<br />
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So I bought a book about viking clothes in hopes I can make some additions to my viking wardrobe that isn't just serk and smokkr, and also got a stamp and an iron needle for period sewing.<br />
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For the draft of sketches I just come up with all sorts of ideas without editing anything. I ended up with about twenty sketches and tried to categorize them by what I was inspired by. Some of them have taken inspiration from the dragon itself: wings, fire and tail, and the glittering armour covering Smaug's belly.<br />
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I asked myself what I wanted, and with this dress I want a floor length dress with focus on the shoulders, and something that moves when the wearer moves. While the dress itself is pretty simple, it will be richly embellished.<br />
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We were tasked with sewing <i>one </i>dress, but we were to design as if this was a collection and come up with three designs, one basic, trend and showpiece dress. (Basic is something you could use at work, trend is something trendy and showpiece is either a galla dress or a garment where the designer has gone crazy.)<br />
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Of course I decided to make a showpiece. (As this was the first project where we were allowed to go a little overboard, I wasn't the only one who decided to make one.)<br />
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I decided on a sleeveless dress with appliqued embellishment and some sort of thin, floating fabric that falls lightly over the hips and produces a sort of flame effect when the wearer moves. The front is sewn in dupin (hard) in contrast to the sides (soft). It's going to be embellished with pearls, embroidery, organza and everything interesting I can find.<br />
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Early on I knew I was going to make a showpiece, so I planned to finalize that design and then base the designs for trend and basic on it. Easier said than done. The designs need to have something in common, but they have to be different and I find it really hard to find a balance. (Twenty sketches later I was considering setting fire to something.)<br />
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But, somehow it worked out. Basic is in a soft leather with decorative stitching along the panels. Trend is in two different, stiffer leathers, one of them texturized, the other smooth. They can both be sewn as is without altering the design.<br />
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It bothers me a bit that this looks so easy. There's a week's work in those two sketches, frustration mixed with crippling doubt, second-guessing myself and being sorely tempted to crawl into a corner with chocolate. At the end I started doodling matching weapons to each dress, but looking back I am so grateful my teacher didn't accept the first sketches I came up with. </div>
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At school, we started off a new semester after Yule with an extensive design project. We were to make a dress inspired by an insect or a reptile. Even though my teacher doesn't think dragons exist, she graciously allowed me to use Smaug from <i>the Hobbit.</i><br />
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I research by gathering everything remotely interesting, which I sift through when I have enough. What catches my attention goes into the inspiration/sketch book and this is seriously the best part of any project, starting something new and it's fresh and exciting - and I get to make collages at school, it's amazing.<br />
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In addition to Smaug, some other dragon related things came up. I made a few swatches with the dragonscale smocking used on the costume of Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones, and used hot glue and paint to sort of recreate the organic golden armour she wears in Qarth.<br />
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<br />Nothing exists in a vacuum. I have worked with beetle wings before, and they're easily re-imagined as scales.<br /><br /><br />
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Somehow a character strode forth: the woman who would wear the dress, a dragon in human shape. I could go on forever about empowering clothes and clothing as armour, but to keep it short, I'll quote Alexander McQueen:<br />
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I design clothes because I don't want women to look all innocent and naive. I want women to look stronger. I don't like women to be taken advantage of. I don't like men whistling at women in the street. I think they deserve more respect. I like men to keep their distance from women, I like men to be stunned by an entrance. I've seen a woman get nearly beaten to death by her husband. I know what misogyny is. <b>I want people to be afraid of the women I dress</b>. </blockquote>
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This task was to design something inspired by the taste or how something feels. I chose ash. It also gave me a broad field to play, from "your joy will turn to ash in your mouth", to the thought of floating ash particles landing on eyelashes like snowflakes, or how amazingly comfy it must be to let your hands sink into lukewarm ashes. </div>
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Our theme was to be matched with a potential group of consumers. I chose mori girls, a Japanese style with Scandinavian influence. Put short, they dress like they live in the woods. There are also subgenres of the style, dark mori og strega, that are darker.<br />
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We were to design at least five products that had to have some sort of drop sleeve. I did a raglan. My designs for this project were simple because we had to use jersey, which I haven't used a lot, and as if that wasn't enough we were to swap projects with someone else in class and sew theirs.<br />
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It took me about an hour to cut, serge and steam the top. It's made in a thick, stable wool jersey. The surface reminded me a lot of ash.<br />
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The long sleeved one is made for school; the other one was something I did when I had some left over fabric and some free time. The kimono sleeves are open in the lower part of the armscye, like a proper kimono, and the garments are meant to be layered on top of the basic designs I came up with.<br />
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In addition to design and sewing, we made a brochure. The printer at school hates me so I decided to paint and glue together a prototype. I used watercolours on recycled cotton paper from Norway Designs sprinkled with quotes from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ueZo5i6GPg">Cheshire Kitten</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paQ1Hy5dbyU">Hey Alice</a>.<br />
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wyrdvikingdesignhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305162498171853577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141039898954058195.post-34109127275198901282015-07-19T13:06:00.000+02:002015-07-25T20:25:36.068+02:00Collection 2014/2015In April we had professional photos taken by everything we had made at school so far.<br />
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Photographs by <a href="http://maritwollan.com/home.html">Marit S. Wollan</a>.<br />
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Autumn skirt in diagonally wowen sandcoloured wool, lined with forest green viscose. The design is based of autumn leaves - with lines in the side panel. I made the pattern from scratch, altering a skirt sloper.<br />
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Originally the skirt was going to be dark green, but when I was at the fabric store I met one of my favourite cosplayers and being starstruck I bought another colour. In hindsight I think this colour suits the fall-theme better.<br />
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Dress in wool, black plain weave and dark blue twill lined with midnight blue polyester.<br />
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The guidelines for this task were pretty strict - the design lines used in the dress had to be from different photos we were handed, the finished dress had to have the same silhouette as the dress sloper and the school provided three different wools to choose from.<br />
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Mori inspired top with kimono sleeves in thick woolen jersey. <a href="http://sewimpossible.blogspot.no/2015/07/ashes.html">It has its own blog post here</a>.<br />
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And my showpiece, a dress inspired by the dragon Smaug from <i>the Hobbit</i>. It's made from silk dupion and silk organza with appliqued dragonscale smocking, and richly embroidered with pearls and pretties. I have WIP blog posts about it: [<a href="http://sewimpossible.blogspot.no/2015/07/dragon-dress-inspiration.html">inspiration</a>], [<a href="http://sewimpossible.blogspot.no/2015/07/dragon-dress-sketches.html">sketches</a>].<br />
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The photographer took some detail shots of the dress. At the time of the shoot I had finished adding pearls, but I had yet to start embroidering, so these are WIP-shots.<br />
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wyrdvikingdesignhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305162498171853577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141039898954058195.post-86103387970863523892015-06-16T20:51:00.001+02:002015-06-16T20:51:57.581+02:00Desucon Fantasy<div>
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I shared a stand with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/leechdreamscrafts">leechdreams</a>, who makes the prettiest flower crowns and fairy accessories. Because the mere thought of dressing up in victorian clothes and using an hour applying fancy makeup made me go nope, I wore my viking garb instead and was 100% comfier than anyone else.<br />
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I loved selling at the convention, mostly because I escaped having sore feet at the end of the day!<br />
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I made these stays last summer, just to have <i>something to do. </i>It used up the fabric left over from my own stays <a href="http://frokenumulig.blogspot.no/2012/08/snreliv-v-3.html">eget snøreliv</a>. It was the first thing I sold and the person who bought it put it on and walked aroundwearing it! I was so amazed and excited about it, it's a bit embarrassing, but person! Wearing thing! I MADE THING!</div>
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I finished my second pair of viking corgies during the day. They're a tiny bit bigger and way more dangerous than the first pair.<br />
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I didn't buy anything geeky, but what I bought is as nerdy as can get. <a href="http://gudbrandsongarden.no/">Gudbrandsongarden </a>had a stand at the marketplace outside the convention hall, and I bought this beautiful yarn made from spælsheep, the kinda sheep the vikings had. New viking socks, here I come! </div>
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If anyone's tired of seeing my embroidery they're on the wrong blog cause I started another pair of viking corgies. Wool yarn on linen.<br />
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wyrdvikingdesignhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305162498171853577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141039898954058195.post-20948747736606710452015-04-11T20:22:00.002+02:002015-04-19T11:30:22.002+02:00HSM Challenge #2: Something BlueHistorical Sew Monthly is the same <a href="http://sewimpossible.blogspot.no/2014/01/hsf-challenge-1-make-do-and-mend.html">thing I sorta participated in last year</a>, except this year there's only one challenge a month. (Despite having more time to do each project, I'm still almost two months behind on this post...)<br />
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I made a pair of tie-on pockets for Carlotta, cause a girl needs pockets. Since I have a lot of sewing to do for school, I don't have much time to make things outside school. So to qualify for the "something blue" challenge I snuck a blue ribbon into the embroidery. I used the pocket pattern from Simplicity 3536 without any changes.<br />
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My last embroidery projects (<a href="http://sewimpossible.blogspot.no/2014/10/viking-embroidery.html">viking corgies</a> and <a href="http://sewimpossible.blogspot.no/2015/01/viking-embroidery-wolf-contortionist.html">contortionist wolves</a>) have been successful, so I leapt headfirst into this one hoping it should be easy. Shouldn't have done that, hubris and all that. I switched to cotton mouline embroidery yarn after getting used to wool thread, and I found the cotton is rather unwilling to cooperate.<br />
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I used hours on Pinterest trying to find the <i>perfect </i>motif, only to sketch down my own design. I learnt to do french knots and then did about 150 of them for practice.<br />
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The pockets were sewn together by hand, with silk thread because that was the only pink thread I had lying around. They're tied around the waist with pink organza ribbon.<br />
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Challenge #2: Something Blue </b><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Pattern:</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Si</span>mplicity 3536<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Notions: </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Silk thread, cotton mouline embroidery thread.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">How historically accurate is it?</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"> 75%</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Hours to complete: </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">7</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">First worn: </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Not worn yet.</span><br />
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So naturally, I grabbed the chance to do some sewing. I started on a skirt, but ran out of white thread in the middle of a storm. So I started another project - until I ran out of black thread and the stores weren't open. And a few projects later I sat there with a half-finished skirt, some corset-belt thingies and pieces for three vests, unable to continue on anything. Aughhh.<br />
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Luckily I remembered seeing this <a href="http://www.imperfecthomemaking.com/2012/01/easy-thrifty-pretty-rag-quilt-tutorial.html">rag quilt</a>. Since it's a rag quilt, it doesn't really matter what fabric or thread I use, and I found use for scrap fabric and some of the fabric I've held onto for far too long without having any tangible plans on what to do with it. (While I <a href="http://sewimpossible.blogspot.no/2014/08/quilting-viking-shirts-and-nalbinding.html">made a pillow</a> from most of it, I had a few scraps from the <a href="http://sewimpossible.blogspot.no/2014/01/mad-baggins.html">Hobbit-inspired morning gown</a> I started last year.)<br />
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My teachers (both professional seamstresses) would probably have had something to say about these raw edges. Hopefully it'll look better after washing and fraying.<br />
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It's half-finished now and I'm hoping to finish it next time I'm home. I've sworn to myself that this will not turn into one of those projects I start when I'm at home and then forget/throw away/take apart/redesign/give away next time I'm back. (So if you could keep an eye on me during Easter so that I can't be sneaky and do any of those things, that would be very much appreciated.)wyrdvikingdesignhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305162498171853577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141039898954058195.post-19042391439339915202015-01-11T07:00:00.000+01:002015-04-11T21:38:09.293+02:00Viking embroidery: wolf contortionistThe wolf contortionists have been finished for a while. As this project was small enough to fit in my bag, I've taken it with me to school and embroidered in breaks or when taking the metro into town. (When I was going home one day, there was an elderly lady who sat down beside me to talk about embroidery.)<br />
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As usual, I've used woolen thread. The wheat-coloured thread comes from <a href="http://tekstil.no/">Skaar Tekstil</a>, the rest is vintage, a gift from my grandmother. She had a lot of remnant thread lying around from when she embroidered national costumes in the 90's.<br />
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The hardest part of an embroidery project is choosing colours. The vikings were colourful people, and personally I'm not. I think I should have chosen a stronger colour for the contouring? <br />
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In the movies, Capitol clothing is very sculptural and extravagant, tailored deliciosusly close to the body. I wanted to keep a sense of haute couture instead of making a <i>costume</i>, so I aimed for something tightfitting with unusual details.<br />
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I bought a black organza skirt and a tight, tight velvet dress second hand and combined them. The dress was very tight, so I had to add a gore to be able to fit it over my hips. Look closely under the organza - the gore fabric is a rubbery pleather type thing that stands out against the red velvet. (I thought it a nice detail, even if it barely shows. </div>
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While I was working, I realised having a mannequin is the best thing ever. It's not always easy to fit anything when you're wearing it.<br />
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Here I've pinned the dress onto one of the mannequins at school, just playing around with different details.<br />
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I was in love with the hip-detail from the left picture, but when I removed the dress from the mannequin, the needles fell out and after three failed attempts at recreating it, I decided to go for some big fucking rosettes instead. (More is more.)<br />
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<a href="http://www.pinterest.com/kimmiekakemonst/ccouture/">Pinterest was life-saving</a> while searching for inspiration. I found <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/458030224577177291/">these tights</a>, and made a sort-of copy with flatbacked rhinestones and beads. The best way to get the rhinestones on was to glue them on while wearing the tights. Glue+hairy legs is not the best combination on any day, and the textile adhesive I used didn't wash off with water, so I walked around with glue on my legs for a few days. Very much haute couture.<br />
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In addition to the dress and tights, I forced my feet into <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPiRQMyzf2MnZkbh69QGs_NhdmQCPcUUM-bfgVRAIY2ffvXMH4qZIVFEKzWJLwqTT4AqygxSjftynbbvfk-9w_V_O_iKZ6qTyU4onATzPGEznjfKI5vwey1Y679Clw-wHAncnm5TrdzMIh/s1600/BIANCO5.jpg">shoes without heels from Bianco</a>, wrangled my hair into submission, used more makeup than I usually go through in six months and even bothered with fake eyelashes (without gluing my eyes shut, go me). I painted my hands black seeing as some Capitol people dye their skin,. (Using waterbased makeup for my hands was not the best idea ever, when we stepped outside, it started raining.)<br />
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But so much worth it. The dress doubled as Christmas dress and the movie - just fantastic.wyrdvikingdesignhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305162498171853577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141039898954058195.post-22033787749848895142014-12-05T12:32:00.000+01:002014-12-05T12:32:11.004+01:00La Carlotta: ROCOCO GOWN O'DOOM<br />
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One of my next projects would have made fourteen year old goth me reach for matches <i>to kill the thing with fire. </i>If anyone's wondering what costume <a href="http://sewimpossible.blogspot.no/2014/09/garters-for-prima-donna.html">the pink garters</a> are for, here's the answer.<br />
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The gown is used by Carlotta Guidicelli in the 2004 movie<i> Phantom of the Opera, </i>while they're performing the fictional opera<i> </i><i>Il Muto.</i><br />
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I'm going to build this monster <i>slowly</i>, because with all the sewing I do for school, I'm pretty sure I won't have much time for my own projects. (If anyone sees my crying in a corner I'm 110% sure this is gonna be the reason.)wyrdvikingdesignhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305162498171853577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5141039898954058195.post-90429428933698482952014-11-12T07:00:00.000+01:002015-06-15T15:11:38.014+02:00Tutorial: Dwarf boot covers<div style="text-align: right;">
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This is the second time I'm making new covers, so be aware that since they are made from foam, they won't last forever. But they are cheap and pretty easy to make. My last pair lasted four days through intense wear and tear, and if you're careful with them, they'll last longer.<br />
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I found my base shoes second hand, so I can't tell you where to get them, sorry. <br />
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Before you start, stuff your boots with newspaper or something so they keep their shape while you're working. Put masking tape where you want the cover to go. Draw your design (or just copy mine). Try to get it symmetrical.<br />
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This is my pattern. You can cut it out in paper or cardboard if you know you are going to make them more than once. As for me, I appreciate the masking tape pattern that sticks to the foam while I'm cutting it.<br />
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<b>Notice that I am using BLACK FOAM. </b>I am a clutz and I <i>know </i>that I will mange to scuff the paint off them no matter what. But when the foam is black, the scuff marks show less and the shoes just look like they've been trekking through Middle-Earth (authentic!) and I don't get bullied by nasty Elves for having neon pink spots on my shoes. </div>
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Dwarves seem to like geometrical details. Create interest with texture and patterns. I have carved details into the foam with a pen. It's also possible to add raised detail with puffy paint or extra foam parts.<br />
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The pattern I've used on top of the shoe is from <a href="http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/259/9/9/9976171d836705bb7352579465dc01f9-d6mjb12.png">Thorin's dwarven sword</a>. The sides are decorated with <a href="http://www.runemaker.com/wares/practicals.shtml">norse bindrunes</a>. There are <a href="https://www.google.no/search?q=dwarven+patterns&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=KXjvU-H_EoK_ywO9vYCoCw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=481">loads of Dwarven patterns to take inspiration from</a>.<br />
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Glue on a clean surface - clean the shoes if they've been used outside. Scratch the surface of the shoes with f. ex. sanding paper to give the glue extra purchase. There are loads of different glues to choose from - if you're using contact adhesive, do yourself a favour and choose the less toxic kind that <i>doesn't </i>give you cancer. If you're using hot glue, make sure to use only a thin layer of glue so that it doesn't show through the foam. Here I've used school glue 'cause that was all I had lying around.<br />
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If you haven't used black foam, now is a good time to paint the whole thing black, just to have an even primer. Dwarf-boots usually have covers in metal or leather, so that's what you want to mimic. When painting props I usually paint the whole thing in a base colour and add shadows around raised details before I distress/age it.<br />
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Paint until you're satisfied, let dry and then you're ready to kick some Elf butt! (Though, be ready to run away from offended Elves. Mahal, it's a good thing we Dwarves are natural sprinters.)<br />
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The shield is still a work in progress. I have finished the woodwork without shedding more blood. Now it needs covering, shield boss and some decoration.<br />
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The deerskin I planned to cover it with is too small. So I'll have to decide whether to piece it together so it covers the whole thing or to just cover it with something else, linen perhaps. Decisions...<br />
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The arm bracer was the last thing I made before I left home for school and studying. I continued my saga of pilfering Tolkien's world for decoration: the tree is this <a href="http://bookwyrmbound.com/2012/03/23/the-tarnished-silmarillion/">Telperion</a> with the roots of the Tree of Gondor. So far, this is my favourite thing I've made with foam.<br />
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The armour parts are finished, I just need to glue on a few leather straps so they're wearable. I think I'll repaint the pauldron - it as the first thing I made and it shows (later I figured out that drybrushing i the answer on how to make the gold paint look like real metal).<br />
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And at last, because I was at home when I worked with this - look at this pretty kitteh who stalks the garden at home. So pretty.wyrdvikingdesignhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05305162498171853577noreply@blogger.com0