Costumedesign
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016I´ve been busy the past days teaching and sewing. For Peter Pan I´m working on pirate-costumes and lost kids-costumes. This is a fencing-vest for one of the pirate. Made from raw silk, layered with a thick cotton-padding fabric and an un-bleached layer of cotton-calico. I´ve mentioned the 4 Elements-project before. I made a design for an Enthusiast-costume […]
The Black Comedy
Friday, October 28th, 2016It´s opening night! Bømlo Teater is staging the Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer. The show is directed by Nina Sele, the scenography is by Janne Robberstad and the lighting-design is by Axel Sundbotten A classic farce with all the right ingredients: a struggling artist, played by Geir Ersland his beautiful fiancé, played by Jenny Larsen […]
Lights and leaves
Tuesday, August 30th, 2016So a pretty crazy thing happened today. I was asked by someone in the technical department in the municipally to have a look at a stage-curtain, to see if it could be fixed. Turns out the municipal is restoring the old stage in the “town hall”. They were about to throw away a whole lot […]
Nature boy fabric
Monday, August 8th, 2016I would like Peter Pan´s costume to reflect his attachment to nature. In the original story, the author writes how each of the lost boys live in a tree, especially adapted to them. And if they couldn´t find a tree that fit, the boy had to change his shape to fit! Peter Pan is often portrayed […]
a pirate´s kilt
Friday, August 5th, 2016Today´s production is a woolen kilt for Mr Smee (Captain Hook´s right hand… no pun intended) It´s ready sewn, but will need some distressing to make it look like he´s been in a fight or two. Distressing in this case is actually quite a job. The fabric is high-quality wool, twill-woven, from Scotland. The actual […]
leather neckpiece
Thursday, August 4th, 2016One of the pirates will have a leather neck-piece. I don´t know what else to call it. A collar? A necklace? A very short poncho?? 🙂 Inspired by a something I found on Pinterest and Sleeping Beauty´s evil step-mother, I sat down with paper, pencil, measuring tape and an eraser. I really like making patterns, […]
leather armor top, part 1
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016Peter Pan meets lots of pirate in Neverland. One of them is Smee, Captain Hook´s boatswain. Smee is a scary, fighting pirate, and he needs a flexible armor for protection. (Good thing I went leather-shopping yesterday!) I made a pattern for an armor to cover part of his chest and stomach and cut two pieces […]
the frog-leather vest
Monday, August 1st, 2016I got a big package filled with silk leaves in the mail today. Which means I could finish the vest for Peter Pan´s costume. More or less. It´s always a bit scary finishing a piece of clothing, not having been able to try it on the wearer. So let´s say it´s more or less finished. […]
frog frock
Wednesday, July 27th, 2016It´s been such a long time since the last time I posted, you´d think I´d taken time off for the summer! In many ways, I guess that is true. Visits from friends and family, a few smaller trips here and there, days of sun and days of rain. But also days of working. The past […]
The silk-rabbit vest
Thursday, June 9th, 2016The vest is made with a big rabbit-fur vest I bought at a charity-shop. It smelled like an ashtray, so I put a lot of effort into removing the stench. First, I tried my ozone-cabinet, without any effect (Which is the first time!) Then I had it on a hanger in a dry-cleaner plastic bag, […]
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