Lettuce be gone!

Obsession, sequins, paint, and felt... today I sent them off to be with their new show... Goodbye Lettuce!

Please never come back.

Lettuce progress...

I've been working on a new (the fourth) lettuce jacket for a kid's show. This incarnation is made with a different fabric than the first and the client requested I make a collar that is more durable... Today I played with a new material called "Fuzz Form". It's a thermal plastic that begins like felt, when heated with a heat gun it solidifies and is sculpt-able... I'm so far very happy with the results and wanted to post a few in progress photos...

It starts out white.

I found the only way to paint it is with Design Master's Spray paint... but it looks pretty nice if I say so myself.

90% done

I am down to minor tweaking to the lining... but essentially the coat is done... the beautiful blue dress was a group effort but I might mention not a small task either. Opening is on Wednesday... oy!

6:27pm Shop update

First blood of the day... for some reason the center back neck is an inch too high. After adding a little padding to the shoulders the bubbles in the back seem to be solved... not sure about the front though. The coat seems to splay out at the hip level. Still scared about the size... can't do much about that until after we fit this puppy though. Looking at this post I see that my hands/nails desperately need some TLC... another day.

5:38pm shop update

main bodyof jacket is together... fearful of how small it seems to be I let the seam allowance out. Also I realize that either I've been calling the actor "Ben" while his real name is "John" OR I have the wrong measurement sheet here.
Troubling

Lacking editing on my netbook I leave you to turn your head...

3:55pm Shop update

This chaos will be a jacket... it will. Pieces are cut. Hair canvas is almost all in place. Center front hem facing has gone AWOL. Tune in as this mess becomes art...