What a fun evening! Gigets and Gagets galore! Saturday, August 14th, the Guild met at Generator Coffee in Garland for some Steampunk Socializing. This was my first Steampunk event and thanks to everyone who attended it was a great success! Special thanks to Maggie for helping to organize and promote with our new friends at the Steampunk Illumination Society! Looking forward to meeting and collaborating with Steampunk IS in the future. Check out our Flickr photo stream for additional photos of the night.
Also visit http://www.steampunkis.com/ to find out more about our new friends at the Steampunk Illumination Society :)
This Saturday Steampunk enthusiasts and DFWCG members will meet together to share their love of invention and costumes. The location, The Generator coffee house; the theme, as inventive as you like.
For weeks now, I have been working on my new costume as well as favors to hand out to participants. And I have to say coming up with these little favors has been a lot of fun. I am one of those costumers who has admired the creativity of this Steampunk movement, but has never been very confident in reimagining the historical, which I'm more comfortable with, as fantastical and inventive. This whole exercise of preparing for the Steampunk Social has been a fantastic journey. I've learned that I'm more creative than I thought! And I might just have some interest in hardware store jewelry. Imagine that! Has anybody else had this experience in learning this new genre?
One of the most amazing things about this costuming hobby is the potential of learning something new every day. Many of you who are attending our social event have been costuming Steampunk for a while now and others are just getting started. I hope that through our social gathering, we can all manage to share something new with each other as well as make new friends. And I hope that this social is the beginning of more similar events to come.
I know some of us are kind of new the steampunk era of costuming. Just thought I would share this really cool Etsy.com shop that I found. Looks pretty steampunk to me....Know of any other cool steampunk ideas to share? Leave a comment :)
I whipped up another quick tutorial on my blog, about how I made my straw braid bonnet that I wore to our 19th c. tea party this past weekend. While this was definitely more complicated than just reshaping an existing straw hat, I was pleasantly surprised at how quick and painless it was to make!
I am fairly satisfied with the way the Sense and Sensibility chemise and short stays turned out (and yes I crisscrossed the lacing). The stays I sewed completely on the machine (except for the eyelets) and the chemise I did any visible stitching by hand.
PLEASE NOTE::: The stays pattern is WAYYY big...measure first *i had to adjust even after measuring*
It took a good solid 3 days with the hand sewing but overall wasn't too horrid. I also bought the downloadable version from the site so that took awhile to piece together but not too bad. I have been super busy so I didn't track the progress but will hopefully be able to for the spencer jacket and bonnet. Also stay tuned for men's regency wear!!! Cut away tailcoats and drop front breeches! Can't wait to see everyone's 19th century fabulousness! Hoping to see some steampunkers as well so I can chat a bit about upcoming events and good costume ideas ;)
Due to the reservations needed for our 19th century tea, we have been asked to have a firm headcount for our party. To accomplish this, we are asking that all attendees pre-register for the tea. Below you will find a Paypal button for purchasing your seat a the tea. Ticket sales will end on June 30th and we will be unable to guarantee accomodation for anyone who did not pre-register. If you have any questions, please contact the event chair, Kaycee, who is also our Vice President.
