Homemade Queen of Hearts and Mad Hatter Update.

I’m getting quite a few hits for the costumes, so I thought I’d throw together an update.
This is where I am right now.
First and foremost, I am NOT a seamstress, nor do I pretend to be. I basically look at this like an art project. I take pictures I’ve seen of the costumes and I make it up. So when you see things looking messy, uneven, or chaotic- well, that’s what you get with me. Can I use a sewing machine? Yep, but I’m horrible. Can I sew by hand? Sure, but it’s what I learned in friggen high school Home Ec class, no judging me.

The Mad Hatter
The hat I made Friday cost me $8 as I blogged the other day.
Breakdown:
1. jacket vest, pants, skirt (for bow scarf) from goodwill. Those 4 pieces cost less than $10.
The gloves were $1.
The artillery of thread was $5 and attached to one of Bob’s old belts.
2 old mismatched socks.
The costume total ended up being about $25.

I will paint the jacket make it look worn and give it texture.

The Queen.
This is more work because there’s more detail to costume.

I still need to finish painting the top of the skirt, but this is it so far.

I bustled the back, this is $2.12 worth of gold material (2 yards).

The top (so far, quite a bit left on it).
I took this $3 gold shirt, and attached the lace to the sleeves. I ripped strips of velvet to create the velvet layered look, and decorated the corset with ribbon, lace, and jewels.

The skirt cost $7, and the top is $25, and my tights were $11.95 from http://www.3wishes.com/
I might be able to finish the top tomorrow and will update as soon as it’s complete. I still need to attach the white collar, the white lace cuffs, and some ribbons, lace and buttons to the sleeves.