Making a Fairy Part 2: The Dress
For the fairy dress, I had a fair bit of white satin leftover from a wedding gown I’d done last year, so I made the fairy dress out of that. I double-layered it on...
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Making a Fairy Part 1: The Wings
It has to be said that wings are the most important part of a fairy costume. The wings are what really prompt the fairy response. Working off the sketch I was given, I fashioned...
The Simple Pleasures Project
“An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth” ~ Bonnie Friedman This year, the unthinkable happened; I missed the spring pumpkin planting. The planting of the pumpkins is one of...
Making an Elvin Archer Part 6: The Shirt
For shirt I used light green broadcloth, double-layered on the torso part, and single-layered on the sleeves. It’s one of the Renaissance style, large shirts. I kept it fairly short so there wouldn’t be a...
Making an Elvin Archer Part 5: The Shorts
To make the shorts, I took a pair of brown pants, kinda like sweatpants, but not quite so thick, and cut them off below the knee. Then I rolled the bottoms up a couple...
Making an Elvin Archer Part 4: The Skirt
For the skirt, I had enough faux suede left over from the cloak to make the skirt from that. This is probably the simplest part of the costume. I just cut the front section,...
Making an Elvin Archer Part 3: The Corset
Since this elvin archer is female, we needed a corset. I made this out of the same faux leather stuff as the bracers, but instead of putting fabric stiffener inside, I used two layers...
Canandaigua Farmers Market
Market opens tomorrow and runs every Saturday, through the last week of October. Canandaigua Farmers Market
Making an Elvin Archer Part 2: The Bracers
Here are the archer bracers. They look like leather, but they’re not (I love animals, so I rarely use real leather). It’s actually a polyester fabric, that kinda squeaks like leather, sewn around a...
Making an Elvin Archer Part 1: The Cloak
Got the elvin cloak done. It’s a dark green suede-look cloth (100% polyester). I wanted to use alova (my favorite material of choice), but I couldn’t find any in a dark green. This stuff looks...
