As I was walking around the House of Spandex, I spotted this woodgrain spandex fabric. At that moment I decided I was going to be a tree for Halloween. This was the MONDAY before halloween! The costume is composed of a pair of leggings, a dress with sleeves, and a corset. The branches appear a different color, but indeed are the same fabric as the rest of the costume, but the color lightens when stretched out. I made the branches first, by cutting long triangles of spandex and merrowing them close on the long side. I then cut 14 gauge wire the length of the branch, and twisted it to add strength. I bent the ends of the wire with pliers to prevent getting poked by sharp edges. I then stuffed these branches with fiberfill until they were extremely stiff. For adding the smaller branches, I cut a hole in the original brach and looped the wire from the smaller branch around the wire of the larger branch. The rest of the process remained the same except I hand stitched the fabric where the small branch meets the large branch. Wiring the branches proved significantly important as I wore this to work (I am a server) and had to bend the branches inward to prevent attacking my coworkers. The corset itself consists of many layers. It has a cotton lining, a heavy interfacing, a layer of cotil, and a top layer of the woodgrain spandex. I hand basted the layers together to be able to sew them all. I created channels along the seams and inserted spiral boning to help hold the weight of the branches. I created loops and attached them at the back for lack of time to get the corset grommeted. After the corset was finished, I added channels on the surface to slide the branches into. In 5 days, and many sleepless nights, this tree was born! I can’t begin to tell you how many people stopped to take pictures with me and how much of a hit this costume was! I’m not sure how I will top this one next year!
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This is awesome! Fantastic! Having done one-of-a-kind costumes myself, the type you have to completely make up yourself as no patterns exist for them, I admire this very much. It speaks Theater. Thanks for sharing it with us.
This is very horrow.
lokking awesome
amazing work mate
Its amazing tree.
Nice post.
I like it.
Horror.
I love this tree.
Really nice.