Researching The Dress . . .

So this is really quite interesting, I found this dress, while looking for better pictures of the birthday dress, it's eerily close, but not exactly the same as the real thing. . . More research to follow.

Premiere Decisions . . .

Attempting to choose between two costumes for New Moon premiere, for a lot of reasons I would rather do Volterra, but I think (as has happened previously) most people wouldn't get it. The birthday dress would be slightly more obvious, the Goody headband is the exact one, which they used in multiple Twilight costumes as well, The shoes and sweater are also exact, but they are sold out EVERYWHERE : ( Old navy had the sweater at one time, probably a year or two ago, Target had an eerily similar one, last spring, also gone now. Multiple shoe websites had the shoes, in the right colour as well, but of course others are quicker with spotting and already bought them up, however, the shoes are still around (Overstock, Amazon, Ebay, etc...) they are all the wrong colours though . . .

Birthday

Dress- Hot Topic (October)

Sweater- Old Navy

Shoes- Vans gisele in black linen

Bracelet (St. Jude)- Hot Topic (or etsy)

Prayer beads- Etsy, Ebay, or Google

Turquoise Bangle- Etsy

Moonstone Ring- Etsy, or Google

Headband- Goody Stay-put in Grey

Volterra

Green Button-up- Gap

Jeans-

Shoes- Keds

Bella Jacket Arrives . . .

Bella's promo poster jacket...

So generally speaking I don't intend to turn this into a 'what-sarah-likes-and-doesn't blog' but this was way too good to not post about. Last week I was innocently skimming the categories at ModCloth when I see the word twilight on the outerwear page. I try to remain calm, oh it's definitely just a coincidence, must be the colour, yeah, that's it, sometimes they use the word twilight to describe a colour. I click. Nope, definitely not talking about the colour. I try not to pass out. Here's the link... BB Dakota Jacket

It's not like the jacket is anything I was dying to have, if I had seen it at T.J. Maxx I might have got one if it was cheaper and in a less violent colour. It's just the fact that it was in the movie, hence, I obviously must have it. It doesn't ship until August 1st, and hopefully the xs fits, since all the other sizes were sold out. Final thought, can't wait, hope it looks better on me than on the ModCloth model, since when did bankers start passing as models anyhow?

Draping and Patterning...

Progress so far on garment in question is...slow in coming to say the least. However, all is not lost. Yet. Thus far I've got a basic shape for the pattern, made using a combination of Vogue 8447 and some deep thinking. Didn't have quite enough of any one fabric to make an entire mock up to play with, so I used leftover homecoming fabric and did as much as I could.

Prom...

Latest project...A chocolate satin prom dress for a friend (Coral).
The intended style...

Sarafan Progress...

I've got the trim stitched down the front, that was a beastly project. I folded the fabric in half lengthwise and ironed it to put the center line in, laid the trim over the line and basted it down the middle. Sewed it down along the edges, even with the basting, I had to take portions of it out multiple times to get it absolutely flat, now I'm working at getting the back and front sewn up, then on to gathers.