We now have a scanner that works at our house! This is the outfit that I made last summer for my daughter so that she could go to an anime convention in Cedar Rapids, IA. She is supposed to be the character Witchhunter Robin. This outfit has four layers: a floor length black dress, a ruffled petticoat, a 3/4 length black, knit sleeveless vest split to the waist on the sides and front and back and a floor length, fitted red trenchcoat. Sarah made the necklace with the large red jewel out of Fimo clay. I had the most problem with the dress. It took 8 yards of light weight linen. Since the cartoonists who draw this character do not sew, they have no idea how hard it is to make a skirt swirl and flare out without petticoats and a hoop skirt. I ended up using a Vogue designer evening gown pattern that had a very full skirt as my starting pattern. Then I had to put horse hair braid along the hem to get it to stand out more over the ruffled petticoat. We really lucked out because the red raincoat was only $20 at a second hand store. I have already told Sarah that if she grows too much to wear this costume next year that I am just going to alter the black linen dress-not making a new costume from scratch!
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