El overlocker diablo! Stupid machine never does what I want it too and its always carving tiny letter Os into the walls with a miniature rapier.
All of my pieces from this project are now done, the knitted parts of the waist coat are with Belle and heres the finished wig and unitard. Going to send it up to her and then in the near future we’ll get to see all of our parts together as a finished costume.
Wrench wig came out pretty well, very free styled, most of my Wrench is because I like bits of different ones so I guess this whole thing is my own take on her.
I’m suddenly much more excited about looking like a drag queen on skates this Expo and yes, of course Wrench is a fan of Daft Punk!
Making an Armour King costume for the boyf! Lets just say that I’m not pleased with his current one so when he asked if I could alter it a little I jumped at the chance and decided to remake it completely. So far its just the top half of a head, it will have vision though the tear ducts, custom taxidermy eyes and hopefully look pretty awesome. (Thanks for the fur scraps Belle, they will be put to good use) Above you can see how I work in layers to get the shape, its a lot of building up and then carving down. EXPO IS COMING!!!
Yes Sunny, I know your reading this <3
General other wips that I’ve got on the go at the moment, working on a Goku wig, the customer always liked the look of the crepe that a lot of us use on our CATS wigs, being a natural animal fibre it doesn’t have the same sheen (which can sometimes be pretty ugly when up against the flash of a camera) that kanekalon and other synthetic hair can have and also stands up pretty well on its own before styling so we figured we’d give this a go. Its a floof of mess at the moment but it makes sense to me.
Also the first draft of a pattern for a boot for Rossy based upon Terrance the fairy, completely making this pattern from scratch with cheap paper, trial and error and luck. Its going well so far, i misjudged the length of the toe as its meant to upturn a fair amount at the end and I can see several places that need to tighten/will be tighetened when a zip in added to the inside seams. The final boots will be made of a brown faux suede. Tip! When making mock patterns old/cheap bedsheets are great fabric to be waisting. Primark ftw!
Myself and Belle are working on a London/freestyled Skimbleshanks for our friend Joe, she’s currently knit the arm and legwarmers and is making a tail and I’m painting and texturing the unitard (one of Belle’s own custom cats style unitards) and making the wig. You can’t have Skimble without his waistcoat and this part is the real joint effort, I knit all the parts, two front panels, pockets and trim and Belle is going to sew it all up and construct it. No, we don’t do things by halves.
Inspired by Belle’s knitting basket (when you knit CATS warmers you tend to have a lot of different yarns on the go) I bought one of my own. Now its easy for me to lug my knitting to different parts of the house.
Also I think I’ve finished my Freya gloves (FF9) I was going to add details and paint the nails but I think I like them the way they are. I’ll just sit them in a drawer and decide closer to the time if they need more work.
None of these bits are going to be stuck together (one part is actually the back) but you get the idea what its going to look like I guess. These are the beginnings of my Wrench costume, based upon a few London Wrench designs but with a little freestyling here and there to get all of the bits I like to mesh together. I’m so pleased with how the door nobs look, they’re so chromey! I want to make some bizarre Chromeo reference but I won’t.
