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ecila
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Jul '02
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Date Posted:
2/16/06 5:36pm
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RE: Padme's Naboo Nightgown
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Looks great Ryder!
I found that the thickness and crispness of the fabric has huge impact on the smocking too, so you may want to play around with a few types.
ecila
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JadeSolo
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Date Posted:
2/17/06 12:52pm
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RE: Padme's Naboo Nightgown
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What I'm using is silk velvet, and it's been a pain to work with. But it's so pretty, I can't complain too much.  I don't like the fact that it's flowy and light, because although the smocking stretches nicely into V shapes when it's draped, marking the dots is difficult because the fabric moves around and stretches a lot. Even with weights, this happens. I've come to love the little Midori bottle we have - as a weight, of course!
Before that, I'd test-smocked a half yard of triple plush. I think it was mostly rayon. It seems a little too stiff, but probably if I had more and did the actual robe out of it, then it would stretch into a good shape. But the stiffness definitely made it easier to weigh down and mark up on the back.
Okay, now for my progress. Kris helped me try on what I have so far (thank you!). I used ecila's method of sewing the long strips together. It has a nice little train of about 18 inches, but that's going to be hell if I ever wear it to a con. So I'm going to take out approximately that much of the middle seam (down the back), tie up those loose smockings, and that will automatically add 18 inches of finished velvet down the front. 
Looks like I've got about a foot or two total of finished smocking, which translates into...some amount of unsmocked velvet. I can't believe I did so much already!
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ecila
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Date Posted:
2/17/06 4:39pm
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RE: Padme's Naboo Nightgown
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JadeSole - sounds like you are making great progress!
Silk velvet is plain lovely and that is what I used too. I remember having a bunch of blue silk fuzziness everywhere too though. I actually wish my robe had a bit more of a train for the effect. My robe drags slighty, but whenever I walk around in dirty areas, I just picked it up. LOL.
We will have to get a Padme robe group shot at the next Con to capture the smocking craziness!
ecila
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East_Coast_Ryder
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Date Posted:
2/17/06 5:29pm
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Did sitting with the robe on mess up the smocking?
Sounds like you're doing good, JadeSolo. And you're a fanfic mod? I hang around there a lot.
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ecila
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Date Posted:
2/17/06 6:31pm
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Hi Ryder,
Sitting on the robe did not mess it up, nor did wrapping it up in a plastic bag for traveling.
I did do a single loop knot at each fold though to secure it sizewise. Not sure if I mentioned that before. Before I did that, I had a lot of thread slipping.
ecila
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Naboo_Girl
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Date Posted:
2/18/06 9:40pm
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I was at Target today and saw a pillow there that had the same smocking as the robe. I was so tempted to buy it and it was even on clearance. I wonder if the people who make the pillows accually smock them all by hand. LOL
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Kasey8473
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Date Posted:
2/19/06 2:20pm
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ecila posted:
Nice work, Kasey! Can't wait to see the final product!
Thanks, Ecila! Working slowly but surely.
I'm not quite brave enoguh to try the robe yet. I think the idea of smocking that much fabric intimidates me a little. Can't wait to see everyones finished robes, though.
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Kasey8473
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Date Posted:
8/9/06 1:12pm
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I'm done!
The Nightgown:
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g258/kes8473/Padme%20Naboo%20Nightdress/finishedbodice.jpg
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g258/kes8473/Padme%20Naboo%20Nightdress/finishedgown.jpg
I made a version of the robe too. It's not smocked and doesn't have the trim and back detail, but I loved the color of the fabric.
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g258/kes8473/Padme%20Naboo%20Nightdress/naboorobefrontA.jpg
Me wearing them:
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g258/kes8473/Padme%20Naboo%20Nightdress/me1.jpg
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g258/kes8473/Padme%20Naboo%20Nightdress/me2.jpg
The two pictures of me are from my birthday dinner Monday. I did make my goal of having it done for my birthday, though I decided in the end not to add embroidery to the back of the gown. I am working on the trim for the sleeves, but that'll be a long ways off before it's done. I'm considering this one completed since my original plan was the nightgown only!
(Try number 2 on the links....)
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Nidrail
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Date Posted:
8/9/06 2:57pm
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Wow, Nice, Kasey!! I agree about the color of the robe... WOW that is a gorgeous color!!!
Awesome!!!
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ecila
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Date Posted:
8/9/06 5:13pm
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Kasey - wow it looks great! I love the embroidery!
ecila
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Kasey8473
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Date Posted:
8/12/06 6:51pm
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Thank you ecila and Nidrail. I'm glad you like it!
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Nidrail
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Date Posted:
9/25/06 12:44am
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Quik Ques for all those Smocking experts
Do you REALLY use 3x the fabric?? I mean if your making a 1" by 1" square, do you need 3" x 3" of fabric??
Thanks in advance!!
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Kasey8473
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Date Posted:
12/19/06 2:05pm
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Well, I haven't posted for awhile, but thought that since I just took pics of this I'd share. I completed the trim for the robe. Pics can be found here:
Progress
Close-up on robe
On robe 1
On robe 2
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ecila
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Date Posted:
12/19/06 4:49pm
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Looks great Kasey!
ecila
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Kasey8473
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Date Posted:
12/20/06 11:28am
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Thank you, ecila!
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