So as you can tell the plan didn’t work out so much, my pretty gold brocade coset is still in planning and the most crafty thing I’ve done since was last minute alterations on an old Belle costume for Halloween.
But with SDCC last week I’m feeling inspired to do something a bit more complex for Halloween this year. It seems super early to be thinking about it but I’m going to be on holiday for a couple of weeks in August and by the time I get back it’ll be basically September, which is 8 weekends to Halloween. It seems like a lot from this side but it vanishes with frightening rapidity as it gets closer to the deadline.
But even with plenty of planning I’m a bit worried about the time because when I say “a bit more complex” my crazy-pants brain says “hey why not super complex” and so my goal is to have a full Dragon Age Inquisition Morrigan Ballgown by October 29th.
So from the top I’m going to need:
- Black wig with feather accessory
- Crazy necklace collar – 1
- Burgundy brocade bodice with lace trim, gold scale centre and leather cuffs.
- Feathered brooch
- Studded leather underbust corset with lace trim
- Fingerless leather gloves with snake cuff bangle on the right.
- Black/forest green velvet overskirt with beaded trim and silver fly embellishments
- Burgundy brocade underskirt
- Some sort of structured undergarment to get the weird skirt shape. 1
- Flat buckled leather boots.
Now figuring out some of this will be much easier thanks to the lovely people at Bioware who posted this guide with lots of detailed renders to help figure out some of the intricacies that usually require lots of image searches and screen shots. In addition to the hosted pics they also have a downloadable pdf which contains colour swatches and design samples.
I’ll post more about the various components separately and hopefully have a wrap up post here in 3 months time.
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