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Everyone! Go check out my friend Mary's blog over at Mary Lou Who ... She's hanging out at SDCC and has brought a friend with her.

Mary, Fat Shirt Kirk is making me laugh so friggin hard right now. I heart you.

What I did on my summer vacation...or Tuesday evening.

So tonight I cut out all of the velvet pieces for Padme's battle outfit. I've taken a few photos of them pinned on Judy2.0

I'm not stitching them together yet...not until my cranberry satin comes in. Also I need to order hook and eye tape for the front closure. 

On with the pics!

Front, no flash - and apparently blurry.

Front, with flash

Front closeup. The fabrics aren't different colors but for some reason they look it here. Note the sleeves are pinned inside out - I just wanted to get an idea of how they'll look

Back view

I've decided I'm going to put some gores in to make the coat more swishy. Once the cranberry satin is I can line and sew this puppy together.

So I make pants now...

Not that it was hard...I've just never done it before.

Here are some in progress pics of BATTLE PADME's pants...Which btw are short pants to save on bulk with the boots...and to save fabric as well since I have a finite amount of velvet.

The pattern I used for the pants...and shortened. Oh look I can use this for the jacket too...and lengthen. *sigh*

Burgundy. Velvet. Pants. I had to figure out how to sew the ribbon trim on the outer seams. I managed. Looks good, too.

Closeup of the trim. It's not canon but it's damn close. Close enough to get me into Rebel Legion (I hope!)

Das pants so far. Still in progress.

Please for the love of GOD someone remind me to buy some Anti Monkey Butt so I don't get Swamp Ass from WEARING VELVET PANTS AT DRAGON*CON! Thanks. XOXO

More pics to come as I work on this AWESOME costume.