All about pattern #1246 - TV fantasy

So, this is my latest Game of Thrones pattern. 

I can't show you any photos of the sewing process, because I had my wonderful local super seamstress/sewing teacher make this one for me.  And mostly the sewing is pretty straight forward. I was working on this at the same time I was getting ready to go to Costume Con in Toronto and didn't have time to sew it myself.

But, I can certainly explain a few things. 

We usually like to put one than one design into a pattern and I noticed that the dresses that the ladies of the court wear had the same basic bodice shape as the dark blue dress with the weird two part skirt.  I suppose this should be called a tunic rather than a dress since it really must be worn with leggings or skinny jeans.

Anyway, this is why I thought I could put these two garments into one pattern.

The "cross your heart" band on the dark blue dress in reality has a dragon scale smocking detail.  I know there are some tutorials on line where people have figured out how to do this.

This link will take you to a good one.  It's a Tumbler blog, so I hope this link works. Let me know if you have trouble.

But, my job is to give you useful pattern shapes and keep things not too complicated (I do work for Simplicity after all) and I found a grey lace to put over this "cross your heart" band to simulate the dragon scales.  

I was happy with this.

I, also, chose not to make the big hole in the back of the bodice.  I did not, if you notice, put a zipper up the back though. This should make is easy to add that whole, if you want. 


There is a zipper along the left side seam.  

There is only so much unusual stuff I can put into one pattern and this skirt is VERY unusual and was difficult to work out, so I put my energies into that.

Both dresses have back waist tabs that come from the side seam.  These are to be laced up and allow for a snug fit which looks great from the front.  If you are planning to put the hole in the back of the dark blue dress, I would suggest eliminating those tabs, fit the bodice well and then cut out the hole and finish the edge with a circular facing or bias tape pressed to the inside.

And since none of the pattern pieces were too, too large, we were able to fit in the interesting kind of bubble shaped cape.  


Happy sewing everyone.