Steampunk Coat

So much has happened. The wedding was crazy!  I'm blogging to enter into the world again with what that machine is making.  I went to Gen Con 2011, and made some Steampunk outfits. The one that I'd like to share today is from a pattern Simplicity 2172.  Steam Ingenious is having a contest. So I'm posting it here for all to see.  I'm not one for skirt wearing, so I did make pants (created my own pattern) for the outfit.

Here is the front of the coat before I finished it. For the pictures I have it paired with a plain black corset, the white pants and belt with leg straps that I made.

Here it is at Gen Con 2013 with part of my wedding ensemble.

And one more of the back.  I added some hook and eyes so that I could gather the coat in a pin tuck fashion.

Thanks for stopping by!

Steampunk from the closet....

Happy New Year....
     While I have had a busy 4 months, we have lost a member of our extended family. We have been hosting my mother in law since October... Cleaning out an estate...Thanksgiving, Christmas....working on the wedding and the store. So I feel like my hair is gray, my stress level....out of here!....
      Been looking at Pintrest way too much. Getting ideas for posts, looking at steam punk clothing for the ladies. So here is an outfit that I put together from my closet, while I did make the cami for my friend, I started with a pre-made one.  Salvation Army is my go to store, I love shopping there, I got everything there for this post.  

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2 Belts, Cami, 2 Safety Pins,a clip and a piece of bias tape cut in half

Ann Taylor tiered skirt

I wanted to show a way to transform without permanently altering the skirt. I took the bias tape and used it to do the front gathers of the skirt, with the safety pins. 

then tuck them in

Add a shirt, even a button up white dress shirt would work. a couple of belts. One is like a belly dancer belt, paid a buck for it, that I used a jewelry clip to hold it together. The other looks a bit like bullets, I paid .80 cents for it.

Hope that this inspires you to look again in your closet.
I will be posting more in the weeks to come.

♥
Terri