My Dragon Age Inquisition cosplay has been only a thought for a couple of years now, but I'm determined to finish it in 2019. So I got the pattern out one night and cut out every piece of the layered skirt.
Layer 1 - Underskirt
I scrounged some fabric from my many boxes and made a simple, full-length, A-line skirt that I could wear on its own, separate from the cosplay.
See the odd black pattern on the back where I JUST ran out of fabric? Ha ha! This pattern uses a lot of fabric.
Layer 2 - White cotton underskirt.
Looks like I mostly forgot to take a photo of this in progress, but you can see it on the final skirt.
Layer 3 - Moth wings
These were the complicated part of the skirt, because I had elected to do them in satin for the more formal ballgown look. And satin is slippery.
I did them as separate 'petals', so that the layers and drape would look more like the original gown.
Once sewn, all of the moth eyes were fabric printed on using the lino cuts I had designed and carved for this project.
It's always a slight risk printing directly onto your finished, sewn product, but I was confident. As long as I let the black dry before I put the copper on, it would turn out fine.
Each part was a top layer, sewed together with a bottom layer, and turned through so that the seams were on the inside. A lot tidier than simple hems, particularly with the satin.
It was a LOT of sewing with very slippery fabric....
And I had it draped everywhere!
But it was coming together according to my plan.
I sewed the wing designs on rather than paint them, so that the effect was subtler.
Lots and lots of pinning followed, trying to work out how the individual layers would hang. The white underskirt and all of the satin were sewn together as a single skirt, with a substantial, solid waistband to hold all of it up.
But can you see how it all came together?
I think you can really see the moth wing effect at the front!
The finished skirt!
Just the matching corset top to make, and the hand-painted stand-up butterfly collar.....
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