Epiphanies

The dress, a bit more loose fitting than Odette's

This strikes me as absolutely hilarious!

I began working on this dress ages ago. By ages, I mean probably three years. Something about it irritated me (I think it was the collar), so I hung it up in my closet and went on to something else. A few weeks ago I pulled it out, thinking it might be a decent dress to wear beneath my new purple renaissance dress. I went out and purchased some trim for it and was all kinds of excited for it- until yesterday.

I decided to watch "The Swan Princess" while I edited the new photos for my portfolio, and took screen shots every now and then so I would have decent images to work with when planning her cosplay. Nest was not very consistent with the coloring of the main dress. Sometimes (primarily when it's dark) it appears to be white or a very pale green, with darker green accents. At other times it looks to be a light blue, with darker aqua accents. Make up your mind! ;D

(By the way, I took screen shots because it was so hard to find good images of Odette online. I've put them all in a album here for everyone to be able to use. All rights belong to Nest Productions, of course.)

All of these, expect the first, are from the same part of the movie. See what I mean about the different colors?

You know, it's funny...

...for being so sugary sweet...

...she sure can be disdainful-

and I love this expression!

The white/light green/green combination is generally accepted as the standard though, so I decided to ignore the occasional blue tinged moments, but decided I wanted the very light green, instead of white, as the primary color. Then it struck: I already had a nearly perfect dress! Darting quickly to my sewing room, I threw it on my dress form and surveyed. I will have to adjust the neckline, which is no big deal since it needs the green edging anyway; I'll probably take the bodice in a little bit; and I'll probably have to make new sleeves, which are the only part I'm really concerned with. At this moment I am not at all convinced that the current sleeves will be full enough for Odette's, and I have used all the fabric I had. The skirt is full enough though that, if necessary, I think I can get away with cutting out new sleeves from it without much damage.

One green brocade- thankfully not satin!

The fabric of this dress I found during one of my regular clearance scouring ventures. I purchased some five yards or so, then tucked it away until I had a pattern I wanted to use for it. Later on I  bought McCall's pattern #4492, which is one of the movie-mimicking ones from LotR (I own many of these, for some odd reason...), and decided to use it. I didn't have enough fabric to make the dress with the sleeves on the pattern, so I made some others.

For the sleeves and accents I have a brocade I bought sometime ago. I think I wanted to make a jacket out of it, but never got around to doing so. Better to use it than let it sit in a box doing nothing, and the colors match well.