I started a longtime monster project. I want to recreate the Black Diamond costume from Satine in Moulin rouge:
I started making the pattern by using parts of McCalls 6480 and drafting the front sections myself:
Then I went fabric hunting: and got a black cotton, a black microvelvet and a black powernet. I also got a first stack of 7mm and 10mm twisted bugle beads and sequins.
After making a muslin I finally started. I made the bodice out of the cotton with an overlayer of powernet so the beads can´t damage the cotton with their wheight. The flaps are made of velvet with cotton lining.
Next came the sequins. I drew the shell pattern on the fabric and handsewed the sequins on one-by-one.
After hours of sewing I finished the sequin part so far. The next thing were the 7mm bugle beads. I sewed them on in vertical rows and filled the shells.
Because filling the whole bodice is very very tiresome I´m not doing it all at once. So I made the motive on the flaps with little metal stars, 7mm bugle beads, glass beads, sequins and silver thread...
Okay, back to the bugle beads and the current status of this project.
Whenever I run out of beads, which happens often as the bead stack in Vienna is very limited and I have to wait until the next delivery, I make the bugle bead strings for the front waist of the garment with 10mm beads and glass beads:
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