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Crafty Tuesday: When you find THAT fabric
Jan. 6th, 2015 08:29 amI think it might come from years of doing costume calls but I am a stickler for detail. You tell me that you have accurately recreated something and I will hold you to that. And people have lost points with me when they brag about how much like the original it looks like and I can spot five things off the top of my head that they got wrong. None of those are fabric related or rarely.
Any way stickler for detail, I have over the years learn to let certain things go with the puppets and figure out what is most important for the look to be right. I also figured out that unless the puppet needs to get in and out of its clothes, you don’t need buttonholes.
However occasionally something will just stick and I can’t let it go.
Case in point, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson from the TV series Sherlock.
My puppets from Dragon Con 2014
(for the VI from left to right were a Phluzzie with green skin and blue fur, Sherlock with purple shirt, blue scarf and black coat, Henry the Canadian Bear, Watson with brown checked shirt and black coat, and Phluzzie Pinkish skin and purple fur)
I got a lot of compliments and some interest in the puppets. People thought they were darling. They were amazed by the detail on Watson’s coat.
All I could think is that Sherlock’s coat is wrong wrong wrong. The Belstaff he wears a very distinctive and I couldn’t find the right fabric for love or money. I was not happy with the puppets because of that one detail. And I think people knew that Sherlock was not quite right but they couldn’t really put their finger on it.
Fast forward to last month were I went into the city to a Christmas party thrown by the lovely people at Magnolia Pictures. I went in early so I could again peruse the fabric stores for several projects and see if I could find some fabric within my budget line. Last place I went was Mood. Yes, that Mood from Project Runway. Swatch the dog was there sleeping on the counter and everything. Met a costume designer assistant who was working on a fun looking project as well.
And I found this in the sale section
(For the VI This is a close up picture of a black woven fabric which has some consistent white threading through it give it a rather distinctive pattern)
It’s not the side of the fabric that one would typically use but it works for me.
The price was not exorbitant and I had a coupon so I got a yard and a third to make a proper coat for the Sherlock puppet.
And it will finally look right to me.
I am grateful for finally finding the right fabric for this project.
Any way stickler for detail, I have over the years learn to let certain things go with the puppets and figure out what is most important for the look to be right. I also figured out that unless the puppet needs to get in and out of its clothes, you don’t need buttonholes.
However occasionally something will just stick and I can’t let it go.
Case in point, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson from the TV series Sherlock.
My puppets from Dragon Con 2014
(for the VI from left to right were a Phluzzie with green skin and blue fur, Sherlock with purple shirt, blue scarf and black coat, Henry the Canadian Bear, Watson with brown checked shirt and black coat, and Phluzzie Pinkish skin and purple fur)
I got a lot of compliments and some interest in the puppets. People thought they were darling. They were amazed by the detail on Watson’s coat.
All I could think is that Sherlock’s coat is wrong wrong wrong. The Belstaff he wears a very distinctive and I couldn’t find the right fabric for love or money. I was not happy with the puppets because of that one detail. And I think people knew that Sherlock was not quite right but they couldn’t really put their finger on it.
Fast forward to last month were I went into the city to a Christmas party thrown by the lovely people at Magnolia Pictures. I went in early so I could again peruse the fabric stores for several projects and see if I could find some fabric within my budget line. Last place I went was Mood. Yes, that Mood from Project Runway. Swatch the dog was there sleeping on the counter and everything. Met a costume designer assistant who was working on a fun looking project as well.
And I found this in the sale section
(For the VI This is a close up picture of a black woven fabric which has some consistent white threading through it give it a rather distinctive pattern)
It’s not the side of the fabric that one would typically use but it works for me.
The price was not exorbitant and I had a coupon so I got a yard and a third to make a proper coat for the Sherlock puppet.
And it will finally look right to me.
I am grateful for finally finding the right fabric for this project.
