Green and Gold Fairy
Same skirt that i used with my green and black with purple wings. It is not any particular character, but I guess it’s another one of my fantasy fairy dresses.
I’ve done a few others: Blue Fairy, Autumn Fairy, Purple Fairy. They all sort of look like something I might wear to a renaissance faire.
I’m not sure what happened to my brain this year, but everything seemed to be Fantasy-Renaissance themed. Renaissance Era [5th century - 15th century].
If you like Renaissance, Also see my Purple and Orange, my Burgundy lady , and my Black and Red pirate.
I didn’t intend on making this outfit. It started when I had an idea while working on a Shakespearean theater production about how to make an easy corset [no seams, just darts]. So with a beautiful gold half-yard scrap of fabric , I drew out plans to make a gold corset. I halfway finished it and then just left it, without closures, and wandered away to work on something else. Months passed. I didn’t come back to it until a different theater Director tossed 6 yards of this cheap shiny sheer fabric into the dumpster because she was unable to use it as a table cloth in the lobby. I fished it out of the trash, and made it into the petticoat inside this green skirt, and I liked the look of it, so I finished it.
The glittery top layer fabric might have been a mistake, because the glitter flakes off EVERYWHERE. So I think if I were to do it all over again, I would not have used that particular fabric.
The green skirt part took less than 1 hour to make [freehand pleats into a waistband]. Having it done was motivation enough for me to finish the gold corset. I added the trim around the edges, and the grommets.
Side note on grommets: use a belt punch to make holes in the fabric, and then hammer them. I’ll add some pictures about this in the workshop. Grommets are somewhat of a specialty, so if you’re unable to do them, just use the buttonhole feature on your sewing machine instead.
Once the corset and skirt was complete, I realized that the gold and green didn’t look good with my usual white undershirt. So I made a new shirt out of dark green olive fabric. Analogous color rule [colors near each other on the color wheel look good together].
All and all, it was a very cheap outfit to make. $10 for the new materials, and everything else was free.
Even after completing it, I was not sure what character it was. I toyed with the idea of making it a plant type Pokemon, like a vitrabell. Or just add wings and make it a fairy.
See the Workshop page.
Photo credit to
I’ve done a few others: Blue Fairy, Autumn Fairy, Purple Fairy. They all sort of look like something I might wear to a renaissance faire.
I’m not sure what happened to my brain this year, but everything seemed to be Fantasy-Renaissance themed. Renaissance Era [5th century - 15th century].
If you like Renaissance, Also see my Purple and Orange, my Burgundy lady , and my Black and Red pirate.
I didn’t intend on making this outfit. It started when I had an idea while working on a Shakespearean theater production about how to make an easy corset [no seams, just darts]. So with a beautiful gold half-yard scrap of fabric , I drew out plans to make a gold corset. I halfway finished it and then just left it, without closures, and wandered away to work on something else. Months passed. I didn’t come back to it until a different theater Director tossed 6 yards of this cheap shiny sheer fabric into the dumpster because she was unable to use it as a table cloth in the lobby. I fished it out of the trash, and made it into the petticoat inside this green skirt, and I liked the look of it, so I finished it.
The glittery top layer fabric might have been a mistake, because the glitter flakes off EVERYWHERE. So I think if I were to do it all over again, I would not have used that particular fabric.
The green skirt part took less than 1 hour to make [freehand pleats into a waistband]. Having it done was motivation enough for me to finish the gold corset. I added the trim around the edges, and the grommets.
Side note on grommets: use a belt punch to make holes in the fabric, and then hammer them. I’ll add some pictures about this in the workshop. Grommets are somewhat of a specialty, so if you’re unable to do them, just use the buttonhole feature on your sewing machine instead.
Once the corset and skirt was complete, I realized that the gold and green didn’t look good with my usual white undershirt. So I made a new shirt out of dark green olive fabric. Analogous color rule [colors near each other on the color wheel look good together].
All and all, it was a very cheap outfit to make. $10 for the new materials, and everything else was free.
Even after completing it, I was not sure what character it was. I toyed with the idea of making it a plant type Pokemon, like a vitrabell. Or just add wings and make it a fairy.
See the Workshop page.
Photo credit to
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