Anastacia Gown

Another CoT make!  Here is my fellow 1880s vampire larper, beautiful Christine in her Convention of Thorns gown!

I've been working on this (on and off) since April I think and it has been such fun!

 Christine knew she wanted autmnal colours and we settled on green and orangey gold almost immediately.

 The pattern is Butterick B4571.  I edited it to be a separate underskirt and overgown though.

 As you can see, it is gloriously swishy! 

 The overgown is cotton velvet and the contrast and skirt fabric is a faux silk I think.  It's trimmed in gold lace and green and gold satin ribbon.

I also made a 'pocket' to hang of her belt so she's got somewhere to stash things like her character sheet!

Have some detail shots!

And on Thursday I'll show you the photos we took of Christine in her full kit because she looks amazing!

A Tudor Gentleman

I don't often make elaborate men's costumes but when I get the chance, I enjoy it!

This outfit comprises of three garments that I made, a doublet, jerkin and over robe.

And here is the lovely Gentleman Gamer in his kit.  Doesn't he look dashing?

First up is his doublet, from Simplicity 4059.  I used the short version but added the sleeves, which I modified by not buttoning them up.

It's made of needlecord and lined in lining fabric.  Oh! I also added a mandarin collar!

Next up, we have a jerkin,  This is made from  he same pattern as the doublet.

 

 Aren't those pretty buttons?  I love them!  No idea what fabric this is made from I'm afraid as I dug it out of the stash to colour match the over-robe and it worked so well I ended up using it!

The over-robe is made from wool, has a fake lining of cotton and is trimmed in cotton velvet.  I loosely based it on Butterick B5626, but I drafted my own robe back and front in the end.

I had a lot of fun making all of this and I think he had as much fun wearing it!