The Idiot's Lantern
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Costumes I Want to Remake- Spring 2018
Hi everyone! I’m slowly finishing all the sewing projects I want to write posts about, so as a sewing post filler, I decided to talk about which costumes I made in the past and want to remake in the future. Even though I want to remake every costume on this list, I will not work on them for at least the next two or more months. There is a lot of changes going on in my life right now which makes it harder for me to sew as much as I’d like to. (This is also the reason why I don’t talk about sewing as much as I want to.…
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2017 Personal Sewing and Costume To-Do List
With 2016 over, I thought I’d talk about what I’m planning on sewing in 2017. This past year was full of life changes, and I believe 2017 will be full of life changes as well. Since of these life changes is weight loss I decided to take a good, hard look at all the costumes and clothes I have in my closet and decided what I should do with them. Most of them I decided to keep, but not use or wear again, but others I decided to remake. I also found some dresses and skirts I loved, but believed I could make out of better fabric or fit better…
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Rose Tyler Idiot’s Lantern Dress- Sequin Progress Update
I know I said I was going to make more posts about my art, I decided to make another post about making Rose Tyler’s pink dress from the Doctor Who episode The Idiot’s Lantern. A few days ago, I reached a milestone in sewing sequins on the bodice! As of a few days ago (Monday) I finished sewing sequins on half the bodice! Yippie! Here’s what the front of the bodice looks like… And this is what the back of the bodice looks like… Since this dress has a different bodice than the other dresses I’ve made for myself, I had to change the way I sewed the sequins onto…
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Making Myself Rose’s Idiot’s Lantern Dress For the Final Time
At last, I’m making myself Rose Tyler’s pink dress from the Doctor Who episode The Idiot’s Lantern for the last time. Yippie! Right now my thumb has not improved enough to make myself comfortable to hand sew a lot. Because of this I cannot hand sew the sequins onto the bodice yet, but that doesn’t mean I can’t make the rest of the dress so it will be ready for sequins when my thumb is ready to work! Although I said I would test out patterns for the dress, I decided for my dress to use the bodice from Simplicity’s 1194 before working with the second pattern. I feel in…
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Drafting Rose Tyler and Gwen Cooper’s Jacket Patterns
Two weeks ago I was sick with the flu. While trying to think of something to get my mind off how yucky I felt, I decided it was about time I drafted some patterns for a few Rose Tyler and Gwen Cooper jackets I own. Although I adore the jackets Rose Tyler wears in Doctor Who and the jackets Gwen Cooper wears in Torchwood, finding them are very difficult and it’s even harder to find the jackets in my size. After a lot of thought, I decided that after this year’s Phoenix Comicon, I’ll use what money I had left over from the convention (If I had any money left…
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Rose Tyler’s Idiot’s Lantern Dress- The Remade Underskirt
Since I’m remaking the Rose Tyler Idiot’s Lantern dress, I thought it would be nice to make a new underskirt to go with the new dress. The old underskirt is fine and still usable, but my sewing skills have improved since then and after finding new information about the underskirt used for the dressed used in the episode, I decided to remake it. The original underskirt wasn’t something I’m very proud of when I made it. It was made the night before the convention I was supposed to wear it to so it really wasn’t the best sewing I ever did and I knew it. But I needed an underskirt…
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Adventures in Finding Duchess Satin
Its been a while since I made a post so I thought I’d talking about something I’ve been working on and off for about six months, finding Duchess satin for sale. Sure, it sounds boring, but I cannot believe how hard it is to find Duchess satin where I live! The reason why I’m interested in Duchess satin is because I recently had even more growth spurts. Apparently my body took a break for a few months before starting to grow again. This tricked me into believing that I was done growing when I really wasn’t. So, all the dresses I made for myself to wear as part of a…
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Idiot’s Lantern Dress Update Prt. 1
It’s been a while since I updated everyone on how version 3 of my Rose Tyler Idiot’s Lantern dress is going. I had some time today to take photos and make a post so… here we go! The sequin sewing progress has been slow. Very slow. Not because I gave up working on it, but because so many things happened the past few months I forgot I was making the dress. It wasn’t until I almost knocked over my container of sequins that I remembered I was working on the dress. So, it’s back on my list of to-finish sewing projects. Since I forgot about this dress, sequin sewing progress…
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Changes to The Idiot’s Lantern Page…
I usually get most of my page views on this website thanks to searches looking for how to make Rose Tyler’s dress from The Idiot’s Lantern. I made a page for all the Rose Tyler dresses, but after reorganizing parts of this website, I began to not like the way I set up the dress page. I talked about all three versions of the dress that I made on one page and, although it is convenient for anyone looking up information about the dress, it’s a pain to maintain. So, I decided to change it. The original page will still remain, but I’ll take away all the information and photos…
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Idiot’s Lantern Dress~ Sequin Update Number 1
It’s been a while since I talked about my Rose Tyler, Idiot’s Lantern dress, so I thought I’d better give an update on the progress of version 2 of the dress. To make sure everyone knows what “version 2” of the dress is, version 2 is the one with all the sequins hand-sewn onto the bodice. So far, I did make progress on sewing sequins onto the bodice, but I only finished two “panels” of the dress. Here’s what they look like…. So, that’s about it. I’m still working on it. Obviously I missed wearing it to the 50th anniversary screening, but I’m not as upset as I thought I…
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