Well, I'm at the worst part of making this current costume - painting all the edges of the dagged strips. I used to use just gold paint, but this time I'm going with bronze at the bottom, and gold higher up. The paint along the edges prevents fraying, helps give the strips extra body, and adds 'detail'. But it's a huge labour-intensive job.
Each strip gets pinned onto cardboard so it does't move around for when I paint the front edges. When dry, I remove the pins, and paint the fabric edges themselves with matching paint, one colour on one side of the strip at a time, allowing the paint to dry in between. Then the back edges get painted, and glitter paint lines get applied on the back over the stitches from the beading.
Top strip is just beaded. Middle strip has front paint. Bottom strip has back paint and glitter.
Each strip gets pinned onto cardboard so it does't move around for when I paint the front edges. When dry, I remove the pins, and paint the fabric edges themselves with matching paint, one colour on one side of the strip at a time, allowing the paint to dry in between. Then the back edges get painted, and glitter paint lines get applied on the back over the stitches from the beading.
Top strip is just beaded. Middle strip has front paint. Bottom strip has back paint and glitter.
Each of the 14 strips needs to be handled and painted in eleven individual steps, with paint allowed to dry in between before I can go on to the next step. It's SUPER BORING!!!! Well, better go see if the latest paint is dry, so I can add the next layer.....
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