> made in 2012

The skirt was made from a nice blue suiting fabric with a pattern that I altered slightly. I hammered in grommets and laced them with cording I found at SAS. The grommets aren't a canon part of the design but I wanted to try them, and I thought they would make for an attractive detail. Plus the skirt had to lace up somehow! The butt bow and neck ribbon are just satin ribbon. I wanted to make a shirt but ended up using one from my closet in the interest of time. Shoes and tights were bought.

For the wig I pulled back the wefts in the back half of the wig and clumped them together by stitching bias tape straight down onto the hair to keep them locked in place. The ahoge needs some love - it's currently held up with a lot of glue, hope, and sometimes a bobby pin. The bun was made from half a craft foam ball that I first covered with a mixture of yellow acrylic paint and gesso. Over the course of several days I cut 1-inch wide wefts, sprayed them with hair spray, and hot-glued them to the foam. the braid was made by hair-spraying larger chunks of wefts and braiding them together. I attached the braid with hot glue and sewed the whole thing to the wig.
The ribbons are interchangeable. They are pre-tied and sewn onto pins which I can swap out easily to use with multiple Sabers.