Quilter's Home and Costume Stuff
Sep. 3rd, 2006 12:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyofthethreadSomething I’ve been meaning to write about is “Quilter’s Home,” which is edited by one of my needlework friends, Mark. It’s a new quilting magazine and I picked up the second issue at Barnes and Noble the other weekend. (http://www.quiltershomemag.com) I don’t really quilt... (unless you count the hand-quilted collar I did on my Renrin costume and a half-finished quilt top from years ago which is sitting in a bag somewhere XD;) But I found the magazine amusing (Mark’s sense of humor is clearly there) and learned some interesting things. Like the fact that you can have microchips inserted into your quilts to help track them and record their history. And that you apparently can dye fabrics on a compost heap. O_o;; I guess, like cosplay, quilting has its own strange quirks! *laugh*
Ooh, and there was a book called “Origami Quilts” pictured in an ad that caught my eye: http://store.martingale-pub.com/catalog/index.cfm?fuseaction=product&id=761 The flower on the cover looks like it’d be fun to try even though I don’t normally quilt. *wonders if she could work something like that into a costume* I’ll have to remember to look for that book next time I’m in a bookstore and see just how it works.
Coincidentally, there were also a couple of pages in the magazine with peacock print fabrics and Mark mentioned seeing a finished quilt from the fabrics embellished with Swarovski crystals at a quilting show. And that started me thinking about putting crystals on Count D’s peacock dress… But crystals would probably be a bit much even if he does wear pretty clothes that get him mistaken for a woman pretty often. XD;
Speaking of that costume, I styled my Count D wig today. I straightened the ends a bit and used a hair dryer to help shift the part in the wig so that it was a bit to the left side of the face. Trimmed the longer ends around the face and then used the hair dryer again to get the hair to cover the right eye. Looks pretty good but it might get a bit of tweaking after I try it on again. ^_^
Hmm… And now that I’ve thought about it more, I think it might be better if I made a skirt to go under the dress instead of finishing the pants I started. You can’t see what he’s wearing under the peacock dress but from his other outfits, Count D always has pants or a skirt underneath outfits with high slits. It seems to be pants more often than skirts but a skirt would probably look better since the outfit is such a feminine design already. Wonder if I have enough of the purple satin to do a skirt in addition to lining the dress…
Ooh, and there was a book called “Origami Quilts” pictured in an ad that caught my eye: http://store.martingale-pub.com/catalog/index.cfm?fuseaction=product&id=761 The flower on the cover looks like it’d be fun to try even though I don’t normally quilt. *wonders if she could work something like that into a costume* I’ll have to remember to look for that book next time I’m in a bookstore and see just how it works.
Coincidentally, there were also a couple of pages in the magazine with peacock print fabrics and Mark mentioned seeing a finished quilt from the fabrics embellished with Swarovski crystals at a quilting show. And that started me thinking about putting crystals on Count D’s peacock dress… But crystals would probably be a bit much even if he does wear pretty clothes that get him mistaken for a woman pretty often. XD;
Speaking of that costume, I styled my Count D wig today. I straightened the ends a bit and used a hair dryer to help shift the part in the wig so that it was a bit to the left side of the face. Trimmed the longer ends around the face and then used the hair dryer again to get the hair to cover the right eye. Looks pretty good but it might get a bit of tweaking after I try it on again. ^_^
Hmm… And now that I’ve thought about it more, I think it might be better if I made a skirt to go under the dress instead of finishing the pants I started. You can’t see what he’s wearing under the peacock dress but from his other outfits, Count D always has pants or a skirt underneath outfits with high slits. It seems to be pants more often than skirts but a skirt would probably look better since the outfit is such a feminine design already. Wonder if I have enough of the purple satin to do a skirt in addition to lining the dress…
