Thread: What are you working on in February 2012

I see you got Fatimas DVD Im inlove with that style of bra
Nice work, love the color

Originally Posted by MonikaMahreen

I am finishing the Zebra costume, pics will follow soon.
I am also working on purple bra and skirt for lovely Shereen, the fabric is two-way stretchy silk-like, very lightweight and hard to work with for me.
The bra is finished and now I am working on the skirt, there will be several inserts (godets) of different fabric and also two underskirts with fishline-hem to add fullness.
I will not decorate nor bead the costume.

I started it in January but was on vacation so did not really have a chance to work on it too much., but here it is done 99% (waiting for some stones to come I was out of)

So my wonderful mother-in-law got me a camera for the holidays. I've been able to take pictures of my costume items again and put them up on etsy.

Here's a dress I finished over half a year ago:



And a very full and fun petal skirt w/ leg openings:



And a custom set that I made for someone quite a while ago.

Nothing exciting but extremely necessary - I am going through all my costumes & repairing the little stuff, putting fresh elastic in both my zills & the zills I use to teach class

Qamar, Shahla, Monika, Eshta, Shushanna, Moondances, TaliaD gorgeous admiring work!

I am finished with the red bra:

Luccia I love those cutouts

I love this. I want one!!!

Originally Posted by MoondanceS

I started it in January but was on vacation so did not really have a chance to work on it too much., but here it is done 99% (waiting for some stones to come I was out of)

Just officially began the work on a costume I'm planning on making for charity. I plan on posting it on Bhuz and also see if there is interest locally.

The reason for the charity donation is my 3 1/2 year old neice who was diagnosed with surgical epilepsy approximately 2 years ago. Surgical epilepsy is when the brain has had a malformation and causes seizures. In her case it was in her pre-frontal cortex, and caused up to 50-70 visible seizures a day, while on EEG every 10 seconds.. She recently underwent surgery to remove this malformation, and has not had any seizures since, and has zero neurological defects! Such a blessing for our family. She is the youngest patient in Canada to have underwent this, and possibly the world.

Hence I will be donating the full amount this costume sells for to the Epilepsy Foundation.

It all started with a hand-me-down project, a cut up dress sewn onto a bra not suitable for costuming. Most of the appliqués that were made from the dress were secured with hot glue. They will not be usable but I'll be salvaging any beads and sequins that werent ruined and using them. Fortunately two large pieces have fit over the cups of the bra, so just some repair and fill work required. I sewed them onto a C/D Dina cup bra today. I also moved the cups closer together.

Before



In progress:

OMG Margret you always find the most dificult progects to work on, but it would be revarding to finish it for a donation

Originally Posted by basil1

I love this. I want one!!!

I will let you know when im ready to part with it

It's so satisfying taking completely broken/ unusable things and making them beautiful!
The photos don't even capture the potential of this one, its going to be so hard to not keep it for myself!

I've replaced all the rhinestone chain on the turquoise belt. I'm not re-enforcing some beads and replacing a few spots where they have been lost. It's getting closer : )

Originally Posted by mlacombe

It's so satisfying taking completely broken/ unusable things and making them beautiful!
The photos don't even capture the potential of this one, its going to be so hard to not keep it for myself!

I know the feeling I try to keep my eyes open when I go lurking into thrifshops just in case I see something kitshy and sparkly ready to rebirth into a new cossie!

I'm still in love with the one I made for last October "haflaween" (see black and coral redo):

What are you working on in October 2011???

Last weekend I worked on a "draft project" of bra and belt set to show to our troupe director.

The basic color will be gold. The belts and bras will have loops strategicaly placed so lengths of colored chiffon can be drape to change de look of the costume. Just by changing the color and style of skirts and fabric draping, several interesting looks are possible.

Here are a few pics of the idea (that was accepted by everyone BTW ) Please don't look to close, this is a crapy draft that I made in a hurry, acrylic stones are only glued on, etc.

Very clever, Qamar. Love the versatility of the different looks.

Originally Posted by Qamar60

I know the feeling I try to keep my eyes open when I go lurking into thrifshops just in case I see something kitshy and sparkly ready to rebirth into a new cossie!

I'm still in love with the one I made for last October "haflaween" (see black and coral redo):

What are you working on in October 2011???

I remember that one, you did a great job!

What a great idea Qamar! All of those looks are lovely. I can't wait to see the finished troupe costumes.

Qamar, that is one of the best ideas for troupe costuming that I've ever seen. Brilliant! It will be gorgeous on stage.

Originally Posted by Qamar60

Last weekend I worked on a "draft project" of bra and belt set to show to our troupe director.

The basic color with be gold. The belts and bras will have loops strategicaly placed so lengths of colored chiffon can be drape to change de look of the costume. Just by changing the color and style of skirts and fabric draping, several interesting looks are possible.

Here are a few pics of the idea (that was accepted by everyone BTW ) Please don't look to close, this is a crapy draft that I made in a hurry, acrylic stones are only glued on, etc.

That is SO clever!!!!!

Originally Posted by MoondanceS

I see you got Fatimas DVD Im inlove with that style of bra

so. how does one get their hands on said DVDs....

The quality of work in all these costumes is amazing! You all do fabulous work :) I especially love Qamar's creative ideas with the scarf, and the costume for charity. What a great idea. Oh, and the ridiculous amount of work put into the lovely red and blue cut-out bra.. oh and, oh well I love them all.

This month I'm working on costumes for two different troupes = 9 costumes in total. No pics yet, but once I get permission from all the the ladies to post I will put some up.

I finished this in november, but I didn't had graphic material of the costume finished until this month.
This was almost my first fully beaded bedlah proyect. It took me more than a year.
The bra being made is the atached picture (I'm trying to figure out how post it whithin the text).
And here is the final result. I didn't make the skirt, but I decorated it.


Now I'm working in a fire Bella-inspired costume to match my Akai fire skirt

Originally Posted by Indotari

I finished this in november, but I didn't had graphic material of the costume finished until this month.
This was almost my first fully beaded bedlah proyect. It took me more than a year.
The bra being made is the atached picture (I'm trying to figure out how post it whithin the text).
And here is the final result. I didn't make the skirt, but I decorated it.


Now I'm working in a fire Bella-inspired costume to match my Akai fire skirt

Lovely dance and costume!!!! Wonderful job. It's so nice to see things in action

I've been making a bunch of these in different colors. I call them Scheherazade pants... developed my own pattern after a ballet video from Scheherazade and a request from Rajaa, a dancer in France. I wish I had pics of the ones I made for her... used 4 yards of silk chiffon. They were super full. These are made from a silk veil and though not quite as full, are still fun.

Today for the first time I knocked over my muffin tin with eight different seed bead types/colors separated. It took me an hour to pick them up and put them back where they belong (working on a rehab shake and bake cossie). Then I went to the store and bought actual bead storage containers tops. But that's not why I'm posting here.

I have a bead size mystery bhuzzers can help be solve.

Need to determine what size seed bead "B" is in the picture. Seed bead "A" is size 8, "C" is size 10 and "D" is probably size 13. Therefore, what size is seed bead "B?"

Mystery bead "B" - I already tried to count how many beads there were in 1", which the internet tells me is a rough idea of how the bead size correlate to 1", but I counted 15 to 1" (okay there were a few super skinny ones). That can't be right cause I'm pretty sure "D" above is size 13.

help!

One more question, I need to order "B" seed beads, and they appear to be brown iris, but I'm not sure that is right or what color they are actually called. The colors vary from metallic gold/brown/purple/green AB, but the overall feeling is a brown/root beer purple-ish color. They are opaque and not too uniform in size - my guess is czech. two pics first under incandescent (sp?) light, second pic under florescent bulb. what color are these seed beads?

I don't know bead sizes for anything but what about this for color?
Seed bead, glass, transparent rainbow dark gold, (Miyuki #257), #15 rocaille. Sold per pkg of 250 grams. - Fire Mountain Gems and Beads

There's this one too but it looks too light
TOHO Transparent Rainbow Smoky Topaz Round 11/0 Seed Bead - Lima Beads

that rainbow looks right, I will go dig around, thank you!

Look like 11's I think.

thanks Lesedi!