Sunday, July 21, 2013

Oh em gee finally

Yesterday I seriously spent 8 hours trying to get the shape of the "horns" for Maghda's headpiece.  I didn't even bother to take pictures of my failed attempts out of paper, cardboard, foam, test fabric.  In all it took about 6 tries of different templates to get something I'm happy with.  I'm simply not good at making flat objects (fabric) into 3 dimensional shapes that not only go out, but also go back (the horns stick out, but also flay backwards).

I only have the first one sewn... and I have no idea yet how I'm going to get it to keep it's shape while being lightweight enough to stay up and on my head.. but I have ideas!

However, I'm too excited with this little victory that I can't help but sharing:


Now, onto the second one!  (And then the detailing, the interior supports, the rest of the helmet for it to attach to... etc etc... YEESH!)


p.s. this is what my foam head turned out to be, which ended up being pretty helpful:



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