2007 Costume Projects

So, we seem to do this every year, what are your projects for the new upcoming year 2007? I guess I only have one so far, and that's the Red Chancellor/Mace Duel Palpatine robes. I don't get that much done, so... yeah. What about you folks?

 

me?

well, just keep upgrading my vader of course.

got a new FG armor in the works, and after ITR i will get a lucas A. suit.

then i should be pretty well finished with vader.

 

My costume projects are 1) finished the costumes for fan films, "General Deception" and "Fall of the Republic" 2) Padme Parade(in progress) and Leia Ceremonial for CIV 3) Jedi costumes for my little boys(I have 2) for CIV 4) Leia Boussh so I can join the 501(that is the only costume I will consider wearing to join them)

OK, I think that is enough considering I have about 15 costumes to make for the fan films!!!

 

Stuff I finished in 2006:

Bespin Escape Leia/Hoth Leia
Darth Vader (soft parts)
Padme's Lake dress - second version
Padme's Lake dress - third version
Dorothy Gale
Princess Leia - third version
Stormtrooper (finally!)
"Poncho" Leia (based on doll costume)
Dark Phoenix
Ripley
Gentle Giant "Animated" style Leia
Mustafar Padme
Rogue
Corde - Post-Blast
April O'Neil
Beast & upgrades to Belle
Custom Mandalorian
Belle's Blue Dress


In-Progress right now:
Lois Lane dress from Superman Returns
Ceremonial Leia version 2
Padme's Steel Blue nightgown

Things I want to work on in 2007:
Funeral Padme
Belle's Winter dress
Leia's Bespin dress (at least get a start on it)
Two Wonder Woman costumes
Utena Tenjou duellist uniform version 2
Bastila Shan
Sarah from Labyrinth
Marasiah Fel
Remake Belle's Blue dress
Anna Valerious blue outfit
Fix Beast's shoulders/jacket
Start on Boushh
Amidala Red Senate


2007 is off to a great start, since my boyfriend proposed to me tonight starting on a high note!

 

Congrats on your proposal!

I am planning on (in order):
Bespin Leia (thanks to Jade-Walker's work on the embroidery)
Hoth Leia Vest & Boots
Bespin Escape Leia Version 2
AT-ST jumpsuit version 2
X-Wing Jumpsuit (I would make the jumpsuit at the same time as AT-ST)
X-Wing Vest
I might remake my Ceremonial Leia, depending on fabric finds.
Leia Commander from ROTJ (with and without poncho)
I would LOVE to do Boushh, but my husband would not be pleased because of the price. Basically I want all the Leia costumes except Slave Leia.
Everything depends on time and money, of course.

 

Awesome, congrats! Are you making your own dress

Speaking of Weddings my 2006 list consisted of...
My Wedding Dress
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Veil with Comb
Customized my Shoes to Match the dress
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2 Commissioned Snowbunny Capes
Commissioned Black Corset Dress
Commissioned Sleepless Night's Dress

For 2007...
My secret CIV Costume is...
I also want to finish the Tatooine Poncho I started this spring

Thats all for now, the CIV costume is the biggie for me, I've been putting a lot of work into the hand beading and have tried 3 mock-ups of the bodice so far (just the fabric part) - I think I may have finally found the shape that works best for me

 

2006 has been a great year and 2007 will be so much better, but I only have about 1/2 a year for sewing.

In 2006 I said I would:

Padme ROTS kissy kissy gown (maybe with velvet robe)
Amidala Return to Naboo
Another one (possibly Isard or anything I finsd interesting)


Finish Dancer
Belle
Black Dress
Pink Dress as before

I started The kissy Kissy gown, but had trouble with the lace and dyeing it. I decided not to do the Return to Naboo and started the packing dress instead.

What I actually did in 2006
Finished Snowbunny
Leia ANH
Finished my red Dancer Outfit
FInished my Pirates Outfits
Sleepless Knight Dress
30's Inspired Red Dress for Mackinaw Island
Started Padme's Packing Dress
Started the Kissy Kissy Dress
A Civil War Ballgown
A 1880's Dress
Black Silver Party Dress
Started my Imperial Officer Uniform


Last year I started lots of projects that I hope to finish, but I will be leaving In july or August to study abroad for a year and my joanns closed down so sewing will be hard this year

In 2007 I hope to Create:
A dress for my school's fashion show (Finsh by Valentine's Day)
A suit for States in Forensics (from an old 1940's pattern I found)
A 50's Dress for Twirp (Again an old pattern)
A Mardi Gra (spelling?)Outfit for a confernece
Halloween Costume for my best friend (Maybe Arwen Morning)


If I have time I would like to Finsh
Imperial Officer Uniform (the hat is scaring me)
Packing Dress
Kissy Kissy Dress

And hopefully I can fit another Star wars costume in here.

Happy New Years!

 

Things I said I'd do last year:
Vader
Red Guard
Chewie
Palpatine (Yoda duel for friend)

What actually got done:
Palpatine (Yoda duel for friend) which I didn't even make ironically enough. I gave his mom the fabric and she did it!
Worked on Custom Jedi

Things I would like to accomplish this year are:

Again, the Red Chancellor/Mace Duel
Pirate
Mando which might be custom or it'll be a Fett (since people keep asking me about my username)
Maybe a Maul
Possibly a MagnaGuard... if I can think of a good way to do it

But the way things go for me I doubt if I'll get more than one done, and the one I really want is the Palpatine. I've got several fan film costumes on my schedule, mainly designing though. I've got a costume head for my crew... but it could end up being a group effort.

 

Well, I'm going to start the new year by making a Duct Tape Double with, how do I put this... bean bag boobs, because my dummy just isn't the right shape there or in the shoulders.

-Mara Jade
-Lake Gown (already started, but dummy made draping undergown not work correctly)
-Ravenclaw Hogwarts robes
-Regency era outfit
-Line of Men's Garb

Not a big list I know, but I'm in college right now which saps all my personal costuming time, BUT! My fashion collection class which we have to make 4-5 outfits, I'm designing them like sci-fi background characters, most of what I've got planned will fit into either Star Wars or Firefly universes.

Here's what I got done last year (again, school can kiss my arse)

Elizabeth's Plum Pirate gown (for best friend)
Italian Rennaissance Gown
Red Silk Dress (only pic I have is what I used in my "ad"

 

Good lord, woman! That's the best parts for [secret costume] I've ever seen! Good job! I hope you post a tutorial some time! I have too many failed attempts at that...

 

Wow, I didn't even see that link until now. Can't wait to see you at CIV!

 

I'm still sorta new to this, but so far my to do list includes:
Admiral Daala's flight suit: Already started but failed with a sucky pattern, I'm looking for a better one, and I think I found it.
General Pirate: Have pattern, but nothing else.
General Renasaince: My mom has a lot of renasaince type dress patterns so I'm thinking of trying one out for more practice.

Last year all I did was my Jedi costume.

 

Thanks to bwize it looks like my Chancellor Palpatine shall become a reality! Man that's going to be a nice costume if I do it right.

 

Well I'm still rather new to the whole Costuning "Scene" (a fan for the entirety of my life and it took College to make me realize I wanted Trooper armor) SO I'm starting small, I'm doing my jedi robes and the sith variant (my character falls then rises, sorta) hopefully they'll be done by allhallowseve. I'm in the middle of like four sabres, and am being taught to sew. I cannot really begin anything until I get moved though (I'm going from podunk Mississippi to SanDiego Cali).

 

For 2007 i would like to finish my Leia Slave, my Picnic dress for C4 ...
I dream of the lake dress but ......

 

What i had planned for last year was:

Ever After Breath Gown
ANH Leia
Another Slave Leia for a friend
Aragorn shirt and maybe another Jerkin

what i did was:
Aragorn Shirt
Aragorn Jerkin
Aragorn / boromir guantlets x2
Boromir surcoat
re-did White Battle Outfit
helped a friend make a slave leia
re-did most of my slave leia in sintra
2 medieval dresses
renaissance dress
kilt
3 mens medieval shirts
ANH leia
fireside gown
pirate costume
cloak
mrs smith dominatrix costume
regency dress
corset
jasmine

it think thats it

for this year:
necklace for fireside gown
aragorn bracers
ever after breathe dress
redo ANH leia
ceremonial leia
french court
anna from van helsing

 

hmmm well, '06 was a good year. lol Here's the list of what I got done iirc...

4 chemises
3 ren faire skirts
Greek matron's dress (for mom)
3 silk scarves
a long coat with three shoulder flounces (for a friend)
"Your pretty face is going to hell" jacket
Can-can outfit
Rebel Pilot's jumpsuit from scratch

There were also several none costuming related projects completed as well.

Here's my "to do" list for 2007...
Long paisley vest to go with the red coat from above...and that will complete that costume
Black suit jacket - at least I don't have to do everything for this costume
Bam Margera's coat from Haggard
Bariss Offee
a red blouse for my can can to replace the black one
Umbridge outfit from OotP
Redo my Jedi belt with the new buckle I have
blaster prop and maybe get started on the holster
re-make my marroon handmaiden cloak

Plus sewing for the house. I need to make a few curtains and cover some chairs. I also have a few none costume clothing projects to finish too.

 

Goals for 2006:

1. Dorme Nightgown and Robe (for me and my daughter both)
2. Finish ROTS Dressing Gown and Underdress
3. Finish AOTC Naboo Nightdress and begin a more accurate one embroidery-wise
4. Dye the fabric for the Dark Blue Tatooine, make underdress
5. Dye the fabric for the ROTS Vintage Blue Linen, begin drafting a pattern or find a pattern to alter
6. Begin a revised AOTC Loyalist Committee Brooch for myself
7. Begin a ROTS Green Velvet Brooch for myself

What I got done:

Finished both Dormé?s
The ROTS underdress is completely done and the dressing gown is sewn. No trim, bead balls and tassels.
Nightdress is completed. I made the robe as well, including embroidering the trim on net. Still up on this one is the bead balls. I?d like to finish other projects before beginning a re-do.
No progress on the Dark Blue
No progress on the Vintage Blue
Brooch completed
Brooch completed
Made version 1 of the Lt. Blue Tatooine costume for myself and a doll
Began the picnic gown
A new Regency work apron
Two new Regency style dresses
Three sundresses
Red Eye skirt
Red Eye sweater
Eowyn short coat based on travel coat
Kara Thrace/Starbuck hospital gown
Kara Thrace/Starbuck Tracksuit (without Buccaneer patch) and two t-back sport bras
Kara Thrace/Starbuck gray tank
Kara Thrace/Starbuck gray sweatpants (without Galactica patch)
Purple satin jacket
My daughter?s self-designed Halloween costume
Zip hoodie to match sweats listed above (but too wrong in fit to be part of the costume)
Yoga pants
Seven pairs of sleep pants

Pictures of what I remembered to take pictures of can be found here.

Goals for 2007:

Finish the ROTS Dressing Gown
Finish the Naboo Robe
Finish the AOTC Picnic Gown
Turkey red spencer
Evelyn (The Mummy) skirt
Kara Thrace/Starbuck black tank
Kara Thrace/Starbuck tracksuit re-do
Make Buccaneer patch for KT tracksuit
Dye the fabric for the Dark Blue Tatooine, make underdress
Dye the fabric for the ROTS Vintage Blue Linen, begin drafting a pattern or find a pattern to alter
Two vests
Dress pants

 

Wow... that's a lot. I'll look at your pics in a second.

 

Let's see.. What i finished in 2006:

Mirax Terrik- Comic version
Mirax Terrik- Book version
Iella Wessiri- CorSec
"I Write Sins, Not Tragedies" By Panic! At The Disco Costume- Ringmaster Brendon Urie
2 Commissioned Panic! At The Disco jackets
1 Commissioned Imperial Officer- Officer Zuud
Matching Purse to Panic! costume
2 cloaks
and a billion pillows

What i'd like to get done this year

Finish Guri
Moff Tavira
Jaina Solo
Hogwarts student
Jysella Horn
Grand Admiral Thrawn(for my Boyfriend)

 

Wow, everyone's got so much going on! And Quee-Benae, that costume will look awsome!! I've always wanted to see someone do that one.

My goals for 2007 are
1) to finish up the batch of costumes I've been working on in 2006. That includes
Slave Leia
Lake gown
AotC battle
Femme Anakin
I'm almost done with them. They just have one or two more things left to do. Once I do that, I will start working on:

Supergirl
Marion Ravenwood (torn snake pit dress)
Padme steel blue nightgown
If I have time I'll do the nightgown that Evelyn wore in The Mummy.

 

Oh, also thought I might try a Vader again, this time Lego-style! I'm serious... with a lot of cardboard I think I could do it.

 

for 2007 my wish list is :

- Padme's Corset Gown
- Arwen's Red Blood Dress (RotK)
- Arwen Bridge gown (FotR)
- one Costume of Padme in RotS

 

All this mention of the LOTR costumes has suddenly made me want to watch those movies again. Wow... I haven't watched them in some time!