{"id":4880,"date":"2015-06-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/2015\/06\/04\/seacreatures-in-the-making\/"},"modified":"2015-06-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T00:00:00","slug":"seacreatures-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/?p=4880","title":{"rendered":"Seacreatures in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThe mermaid and the Mystery of the Deep\u201d is the name of Brosteinteateret\u00b4s new show. It\u00b4s an amateur group in Haugesund with a very creative and versatile, professional director, who also wrote the show.<\/p>\n

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The past three days I\u00b4ve been with a wonderful, little group of women and we\u00b4ve been making the costumes for the different creatures living in the deep. I have a dual purpose in the setting: as a costume-designer and as a costume-making-teacher in our 3+3 days workshop.<\/p>\n

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We do have quite a lot to actually make, so after a very short introduction, we just got down to business!<\/p>\n

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A lot of the action is going on underwater, in the sea outside Haugesund. So the challenge is to make costumes of sea-creatures, that will fit around the human body. I\u00b4ve done a lot of animal-costumes before, but not so many sea-creatures, so this was a fun challenge \ud83d\ude42 First up is the sea-urchin: Made with 10 panels appliqued and sewn sepearately, before mounting t all together. After sewing the pieces together, we added more fabric over the seams to hide them. The little girl who\u00b4s gonna wear the costume was very happy with it, and we actually managed to finish this costume the very first day!<\/p>\n

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The second costume is a&amp;nbsp;flounder (flatfish?) Here the basics are in place, we\u00b4re still missing the odd lip, and some color to add depth to the pattern.<\/p>\n

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To make the layers stay in shape, we sew three layers together: calico, a 0,5 cm soft foam, and finally the top-fabric, which of course varies from costume to costume. First we&amp;nbsp;overlock (using a serger) to fasten the fabrics to each other, then we actually se the pieces together.<\/p>\n

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Below is part of what will become a shrimp! We\u00b4ve made a cotton-vest, adding a lot of filling in sewn cables. In front, I added big straws to simulate all the tiny frilly legs or whatever it is they have there in front. I\u00b4m very satisfied with using the straws, I think they will look so cool when it\u00b4s done!<\/p>\n

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Kitty is being helpful, posing as a live mannequin, allowing me to see what needs to be altered. Still some fun stuff to do on this one \ud83d\ude42 (She actually helped with a lot of cutting to \u2013 she was such a big help today!)<\/p>\n

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And of course, being a fantasy-story from the depths, we need a bad guy. Guess who?! The octopus! We\u00b4ve been sewing lots of legs for him to, but it\u00b4s the beginning of the head that I\u00b4m showing you. Here there are 4 layers of fabric. You can hardly see it in this picture, but the top fabric is a cut-out chiffon, covered in small, matte sequins. It\u00b4s be the coolest octupus I\u00b4ve ever made, that\u00b4s for sure! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Stay tuned, next week, I\u00b4ll be back with an update of what we\u00b4ve managed to come up with the next 3 days of the workshop \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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