Catching Fire Capitol Portraits ~ Katniss

Here is the construction diary for my Katniss Wedding Dress.  We entered a group in the YA Lit Costume Contest for the Yule Ball at Dragon Con 2013 with Capitol Portrait Costumes of Effie Trinket and Cesar Flickerman.  We won!  Best in Show (for most ruffles on humans ever!)

So with maybe some taking in, some rhinestone repair (I left a trail of sparkelly breadcrumbs) and "skinny-securing" of feathers on the bodice, this will be even better next year!

Vivaldi's Masquerade of Versailles ~ Summer

For the Dragon Con 2013 Friday Night Workmanship Contest we did the Seasons of Versailles...

 

Photo by Roger Benson

(Roger Benson)

I did Summer, all blue skies, sunflowers, and butterflies.....

The concept was Ashlee's (Winter), with the idea being "gigantic, blingy, fabulous" so there really wasn't any "is this too much?".  These gowns were not meant to be historically accurate, so polyester dollar store flowers and printed satin-paper butterflies weren't a big faux-pas.

Our group decided that just a few pages of documentation each would be appropriate.  Sadly the judges didn't have time to actually look at any of the documents...  Here's what I had prepared.  These weren't particularly technical dresses, but for my contribution to workmanship, it was making 150 or so origami petals, and for cool materials - I used 35 fridge magnet butterflies....