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.

Carrot

I'm falling behind on trying to put up a post per show... sometimes I really have my head down and I'm just plowing forward. Last weekend I did a re-furb (meaning I had to do over) on a fantasy costume I designed last summer. In the original design I had a sequined top with a sheer green overlay as the "Carrot top" but unfortunately sequins are hard to maintain and they tend to eat fabrics in touch with them... This company needed something Very Sturdy.

Meet Spandex... plain boring spandex... that I cut up, overlocked, dyed and rearranged...

...until it actually looks interesting. I am thrilled beyond words with the outcome!

Some days you get done with a costume and think "wow, I actually know what I'm doing". Which may or may not be true, but in show biz it's important to make believe you know what you're doing, so I'm rolling with it.

Tomato!

I designed and built this tomato jacket for an educational kid's show... makes you want to eat healthy food... right?

No, I didn't print "Tomato" backwards... that's just how my computer's photo booth works.

Lettuce Head

Just a quickie today... covered a top hat for a lettuce.
I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.