The costumes

Not the greatest pics, but it's hard to do this right when you live alone. It's not like my cats can take the pics, lol.



The woman who was going as fire had to cancel. I was less than pleased with the way one of my costumes was going and here were perfectly good black wings (see previous post) going to waste. :) I found some thin black fabric for a shirt and harem pants and some red for a bodice and voila, fire fairy.



This is the earth fairy and it's brighter in real life. That green is like a line green and it's trimmed with purple. The shirt and pants are a dark colored but lightweight jungle type print. I'm an earth fairy on acid. :)




A good view of the wings. I took a normal bodice pattern and simply made it longer and put bias tape around the edges for a bit of punch. Because of the way the shirts lay - exposing my upper chest and shoulders - sunscreen is going to be a must.



And my friend's toga, made without a pattern. I found a picture and just made it up as I went along and I'm very pleased with the end result.



The wings look really good with the toga, probably the best looking of the bunch.

First a note about wings

About the wings...it's like an addiction. Once I figured out the basic idea and got over my 'i can't make wings like that!' and figured out that wings were wings and it didn't really matter that they weren't perfect and like movie-wings, I had a blast. I'm having a hard time stopping and actually ended up making wings for both days instead of just one. :)



This set... I had a lot of fun with this one. It's for my 'earth fairy' costume. I was going to go with browns and greens, a proper earth fairy, then well...that was boring, so I went for bright instead in greens and purples.

I simply wrapped the wire together, covered it in floral tape and tied tufts of green and purple net along the way. I also covered an elastic headband and wristbands in the stuff. A bit itchy, but the overall look is great.



This is actually one of my last attempts. I simply croceheted around the wire frame with sparkly gold yarn and though it doesn't really show up well here, in real life, it's rather pretty. A friend is wearing a 'store bought' costume the second day and the yarn on this matches a snood I made her. The dress is restrained by my standards, so I was going for something simple and discreet.




This one isn't quite finished, but everything else is and I didn't want to delay posting pics and enjoying a sense of a job well done, so...just pretend this one is finished. I found a different type of wire for the last set of wings, it's thinner but a bit stronger than the first type and I discovered it twists in such a way that will very little effort, I get nearly perfect 'butterfly' type wings. If I had known the first time around there would have been fewer temper tantrums!