Monday, August 21, 2006

The Costume!

I'm still tweaking the bird's beak on the hood, but the body of the costume is done, thanks to the big, big help of my wonderful husband.

The shirt is actually 2 layers: one long-sleeved shirt with a zippered neck covered by a sleeveless spandex workout top. I embroidered the raven crest on there. We have yet to see consistent pictures of Raven's costume, so I just created an "idealized" version of the breastplate. I created a paper template and transferred it to the spandex top with tailor's chalk. And that was harder than it sounds! Then I embroidered it with a simple backstitch in a metallic thread. Again, spandex and metallic thread are very difficult to work together!


Here's a back view.





And a front view (ignore my hair, it was being naughty).






And a view of the hood, the beak is folded under because it, too, was being naughty.


A closeup of the embroidery

5 comments:

Sara said...

*sniffle* My grandparent's computer is so crappy, the pictures aren't clear, so I can't see the awesome detail you did with the raven emblem on the front.

BUT! What I can see looks awesome. Well worth the effort.

-Sara

KTHunter said...

Thank you very much! I was hoping you would like it. I'll see if I can get a bigger picture of the emblem and post it so you can see it.

It's actually a comfortable costume. The cloak is very heavy, though, and the hood is somewhat claustrophobic. I will probably wear it down most of the time.

Sara said...

Ah! Horray, you've got a close up (thanks for the DeviNote, by the way)
It is very cool. Again, the whole thing is just awesome.

-Sara

KTHunter said...

Thanks! I'm glad you like it & glad you got the DeviNote. I am soooo looking forward to next week.

Sara said...

I feel the same way about next week. Thank god Wizard is posting a picture of a different member of Titans East this week online; it makes the wait for Wednesday easier.

-Sara