Taylor's lab hours!

So, this is what I did this week:

I sewed Mrs Correy's costume. Man, I have to say, I have spent so much time on Mrs. Correy's costume. I kind of want to move on with it. But at the same time, I'm so excited that I have been able to make such a cool costume!

I sewed this skirt together this past week. Let me tell you, that was a lot of layers. I had to put two lines of stitching in in order for it to all stay.
1 layer of waistband. 2-3 layers of red skirt top. 1 layer of green skirt. all together, it was sometimes 5 layers.

I the waistband, I put on Velcro. Putting on the Velcro was Sister Dooley's idea, but it was a good one. One thing that we as students in the costume shop understand is that we need to be able to reuse whatever we make. In order to make the skirt more reusable, I put Velcro. Everyone is different shapes and sizes. The Velcro allows for adjustment. I was especially thankful for it when I tried it on, haha.

Also, I (and others) found petticoats to make the skirt poof. Poof is awesome, and necessary. We also found the bussel. The bussel makes the butt big. Let me tell you, the costume all together looks awesome with the butt poof. I'm excited for Aliya to wear this.

I also made letters and accessories. I just need to stitch the black letters on the skirt (so they're removable for future wearers.)

This week, I plan to stitch those letters on and move on to statue drapery.

Taylor's lab hours

This past week I worked primarily on two different things:

Pattern pdf

Sister Dooley pinned it up!

One of them was a pattern that Sister Dooley needed taped together and traced for the statue unitards. Man, I had no idea how difficult that it was actually going to be. I thought that it was going to be a breeze, but patterns are confusing. But, hey! I got it done. I was able to trace Hera's unitard (for Sierra Phillips) which was tiiiiiinnnyyy!

Mrs Correy (Broadway)

What we have thus far.

The second thing that I did was work with Mrs Correy's costume. Honestly, this costume has taken forever and a day to put together thus far. I think that the reason for taking so darn long is that Mrs. Correy is an eccentric and creative character. On Broadway, her bussel is trays of treats! I've been super excited about her character. It is still in the making, and it's taking a while but the end result will be AWESOME! I'm super excited to make her accessories, which will be letters and such. I guess next I'm going to have to sew all of it together instead of just keeping it up with pins! Hopefully, that won't take very long. Also, Alpha and I were wanting to make her bussel huge!

Words to the wise: Don't do all of your lab hours at once. Your feet will hurt so bad that you won't want to walk for a while. 'Nuff said, yo!