This costume is planned for the end of August and Saboten Con. It's part of a Cardcaptor Sakura group. I wanted to be the wood card because she is gentle and also because there isn't a lot if specifics in her outfit, so I can get a little creative. I used some of an old renaissance style dress for the pattern doing some altering. The dress is made of casa satin and lined with the cotton muslin (I do this because I hate wasting mock ups and I live where it is very hot- so cotton linings are friends.) I drew stencils (freehand) on some sticky back foam and cut them out. The dress was placed outside on a big sheet of canvas so I could pin to it. I first airbrushed a light layer of yellow green over the bottom. I stuck on the stencils and then airbrushed over it with darker green. For the back I did the same thing, but then I painted over the whole back train with a watered down green to create the dark leaf shadows.

I didn't have a lot of experience with draping, but after some trial and error I got it to look just how I wanted. I had to undo some seams to sew in the draping, but I am so happy with the final product. I also took my heat tool and burned the edges to try and create a little deconstructed, wood like effect on the edges of the voile. We ended up winning best in Masters at Saboten 2014.

All photo credits go to my husband, Viciouswargoose.