tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256190772023-11-15T12:11:07.362-06:00Sew Dressed UpAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10728106781944292704noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25619077.post-65328580849825504502019-02-15T13:30:00.001-06:002019-02-15T13:36:41.229-06:00Arkham Knight Harley Quinn CostumeI'm starting fresh with my costume blog. It's been a few years and I'm not the best at keeping up with this, but I'm giving it a try again. While I do have a few projects that I am just starting on for 2019, I thought I would post about costumes I made in the last few years. I hope that other will find this information helpful.<br />
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First costume up is Harley Quinn from the video game Arkham Knight. This costume was made to be part of an Arkham group for C2E2 and Dragon Con in 2018.<br />
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I tend to build costumes from the inside out, so the leggings were the first item I made. I used a leggings pattern I already owned, and had used in previous costumes - <a href="https://sewing.patternreview.com/Patterns/13355" target="_blank">Kwik Sew 3463</a>. Leggings are fairly quick and easy to make. I didn't want the shine of spandex fabric, so I used stretch knit that I found locally at JoAnns. The upper diamond design is made from heat transfer vinyl that was cut with a Cricut cutting machine and applied to the fabric. The lower diamond design is made from hot fix studs I found on Amazon. I had a very hard time getting the hot fix studs to actually fuse to the fabric and have glued a the ones that fell off back on with e600. If I were to do this again I would probably find studs with prongs to use instead.<br />
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Next came the skirt. After combing through reference images, I decided on making a three tiered skirt with an organza crinoline underneath. For the crinoline underskirt I used silk organza that I already had in my stash and used the same pattern I used for my Captain America USO dancer, but added additional layers of ruffles as I wanted it to poof out a bit more. Instead of the red trim on the bottom, I used some lace I found in the trims at my local Walmart. I did have to visit multiple stores to acquire the number of spools I needed.<br />
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The skirt is about somewhere between a 1/2 and 3/4 circle skirt. I started with a full circle and took it in at the side seams until it fit nicely over the crinoline layer. I used black satin from my stash to make the base layer that the ruffles attach to. I wanted a semi crisp look to the ruffles and made them from black cotton cut into strips, narrow hemmed and gathered. I made use of a few specialty feet for my sewing machine to make this process go a bit faster.<br />
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To make the narrow hem, I used a narrow hem foot. While starting out
this foot is a bit hard to use, the straight line hemming I was doing
turned out to be easy once it was started. I still have not mastered
using this foot on a curved hem. This foot was part of a set of vintage feet made by Greist I had gotten from my grandmother. I have been able to use the feet with no trouble on my modern machine.<br />
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I also made use of my ruffler foot to make all the ruffles. Again, there is a bit of a learning curve to this foot as well, but it saves time and my hands when making so many gathers.<br />
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The skirt was finished by adding a zipper closure in the back, a waistband, and hook/eye closure. I connected the underskirt to the skirt with the waistband to make the skirt one piece.</div>
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Next up is the corset. I'll write about that one in my next post. </div>
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