Padme Amidala Padme's Picnic Dress v2.0

@Kay_Dee: Thank you, an I agree: If Obi-Dawn never came up with that pattern I would be sitting here with my hands in my hair trying to figure out how I'm supposed to complete this dress!

@Obi Ann: Another European! (makes funny little dance) So where are you from? I'm from the Netherlands (probably the rainiest country in Europe, in my opinion, ).

@ Ferd: Thanks! Your picnic dress looks lovely too. Kind of thinking it: Everything you make looks amazing! Are you a professional?

 

Tenyon, great job on your embroidery, its beautiful. I love your pin too. liann

 

Ah! Yeah! Stil! I know that one. I used a 'Burda' pattern, for my blouse. For the skirt I'm going to use my own pattern (a circle pattern to make the skirt look verry full).
Almost finnished with the sequins!

@ Liann: Thanks! Your picnic dress is so gorgeous! Really! That's why I don't understand why you are re-doing your corset. What's wrong with it? :S

 

Lucky you! I actually DID found a site that sells American patterns though:
Monsterpatterns
But at the time I discovered it, I already had my blouse pattern.....(Typical me)

 

Tenyon, I wasn't happy with my embroidery, It didn't use the proper stitch for a lot of the embroidery, I used a satin stitch on the flames instead of the long and short stitch, and the roses don't match my new cape. I really like how the long and short stitch looks, it lies nice and flat unlike the satin stitch. liann

 

Hi all
Thought I'd share my work thus far on my dress with you. Dajuan's Link
Tell me what you think.

 

Your dress looks beautiful Jedi_Dajuan, please keep updating...

@Obi Anne: I would love too. Probably because I had a dilemma myself with finding the right fabric for my dress, and patterns of course . But I actually did it: I bought silk! (Don?t have a penny left though... )

 

Jedi Dajuan, nice job on your dress so far. Can't wait to see your corset. liann

 

It's two seperate fabrics. The top is a sheer pre-embroidried cream, and under it is a polyester thin yellow (it's HOT)(Don't know the names exactly, have them written down at home.)
The sheer, which I felt was more important to give it the right look, came from the bridal section of the cloth store. I wanted to use Cloud Nine Jacard (sp?) but my one store was out and I didn't have a coupon for the other (expensive!). The sheer, with a 40% off coupon was $60.

 

For those of you who are considering making the picnic costume, I've recently found some great fabric options. I actually think I've found the crinkled silk that was used on the real corset! I really think the size of the crinkles and the pattern they make matches what I found at Thai Silks. They have a web site that you can order from too. Here is the link to the Crinkled Habotai Silk:

http://www.thaisilks.com/store/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TS&Product_Code=021K

If I were going to make my corset again I'd use this and flatline it with a more opaque silk dyed the same gold color.

I've also found some organza that could work for the shawl as well as a crinkled silk at Britex that's already dyed gold for those who are not wanting to dye their own corset fabric. All of the fabric swatches and information is up on this page:

Picnic Fabric Swatches

Maybe someone will find the information useful

-Kay Dee

 

*Sigh* I am beginning to realize that I will not be able to complete my picnic dress in time for halloween. I have been so swamped with college, home work, and piano practicing that I probably will not be able to finish my corset in time. Let's see...I've done about 13 sets of flames, 9 roses, the 3 creamy scalloped swag things, about 20% of the leaves and stems. Can anyone give me a timetable on how much time I would have to spend on the corset per day to get it finished in three weeks?


On a more optimistic note, how many strands of gold thread did everyone use for the gold swirlies?

Petite Padme

 

Petite_Padme, I used two strands of the gold thread for my swirlies.
It sounds like you've got quite a bit already done on your embroidery too. I hope you can find time to finish it!

 

Well my dress is finished! I wore it at a con yesterday, and I won second prise! Hurray!
A sweet little Anakin won first price
The con was a blast, I really enjoyed myself!
The people where friendly and we had a lot of fun together

picie

I'm looking a bit eh, sleepy but you can see the whole dress!

 

Way to go Tenyon!
You look great and I love your hair!

 

Very pretty, Tenyon! I love your hair!

 

Congrats Tenyon! Your dress turned out great

-Kay Dee

 

It looks beautiful Tenyon!

 

O, wow, thank you for all your compliments! I really appreciate them . Especially the hair compliments. I worked for hours to get it that way. If you want to I can tell you how I did it. Then I will take some pictures of the stuff I used. Meanwhile here is another picture of my hair, witch is my own .

picie

@Ann. I was thinking to go there...but I was not quite sure (don't know anybody there, and my German is not that good. I only can tell some personal stuff like my hobbies, and I can order bread...but that's all ) but I will see what I can do!

 

Tenyon, you did a beautiful job on your dress and I love your hair, it looks perfect.
liann