sunshine’s creations

>Oberon (my favorite pieces)

01 May 2010 3 Comments

by sunshinescreations in costumes

>It didn’t come out well in the photos and I didn’t have my camera when he tried these on.  So I will try to get more photos later and make another post of this one.  I had so much fun making the crown for Oberon King of the Faeries.  I had to make it masculine but yet faerie-ish as the teen in question would have none of that glittery flowery stuff.  So this is what I came up with.  I figured the girls are all flowers and bugs (butterflies and bees).  So I would make him the other parts of nature the greens, seeds and twigs, the birds and the animals (you won’t see his collar in theses photo but he is wearing an turquoise cape ( same color in the peacock feathers) that has a faux white fur collar.  The cape will have an opening in the back to let the wings through and hid the harness.  He is wearing a shirt the same color as the harness so it shouldn’t show to much even in the front.

I made the wings first.  They are light in weight you really can’t feel them on you weight wise.  Everything is hand stitched on except the feathers and the nut in the middle of the feathers.  I wish I had hand stitched the feathers as well because when I glued them one shifted while drying and is a little off.

 Last I made the crown.  I wanted to make it match the wings but still be very masculine, hard to show masculine on a female display head but I don’t have a male one.  I like the way it came out everything is hand stitched on except the 3 nuts in the center front.  I used mono-filament to do the stitching to make it hard to see.  I first made a green felt frame that is two thicknesses of felt this way it wouldn’t itch the wearer.  Then I sewed on a buckle just like the one on the harness so it could be adjustable.  Then the center front details got attached followed by the sticks on the sides and back lastly the nuts glued to the front to hide the joins of all the feathers and finish it off nicely.

 

>Mischievous Puck

30 Apr 2010 Leave a Comment

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>I made a sleeve for puck to wear on which ever arm he chooses.  We had some costuming issues with him.  Had to change his outfit at the last second as nothing would fit him.  This was originally planned to go with a different outfit but Puck was to slender to wear the other one.  So now it goes with this one.  I used grommets also it could be taken on and off easily and  it is lined with felt to make it comfortable to wear and not be itchy.    I did some hand embroidery, blanket stitching around the felt leaves at the top to hold the two layers together and to add a little more detail with shades of green to that area.  Also if the wrist band got twisted on the arm the arm could still bend at the elbow and not be uncomfortable.

I had originally planned more feathers but decided they would get damaged so close to the body on a moving part like an arm.  So I saved them for Oberon King of the Faries’s crown (which was the hardest thing for me to make).  Yes I am saving that for last as with his wings the second hardest thing I made for this play.

Here is Puck

>Titania Queen of the Faries

30 Apr 2010 Leave a Comment

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Here is Titania She had her wings already so this is her whole costume minus shoes, hair and makeup.