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Brandon Sanderson / Re: mistcloaks
« on: March 16, 2010, 01:40:38 AM »
Quote from: Nessa on March 15, 2010, 10:32:16 PM
I made one a loooong time back.

Yours was one of the ones I had managed to find :-)

Okay, I've got a couple of pictures --

This is the fabric I'm using for the yoke. I think it's technically a floral pattern but mostly it just looks swirly (to me, anyway). I've had a small piece of this for a couple of years now and had nothing to use it for because it was so small -- it's just barely big enough for the yoke.


This is something I thought was pretty neat -- some of the fabric I'm using for the streamers is organza, and at first I thought that it wasn't going to work out so well, because synthetic organza seems to really like static electricity, but once I had it cut into small strips, they started behaving like in the picture, where instead of hanging straight down they go all floaty. I don't know if it'll keep that effect once it's sewn together with the other fabrics, but I think it'd be cool if it did.

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Brandon Sanderson / mistcloaks
« on: March 15, 2010, 09:23:27 PM »
Hello, I'm new here!

I'm working on making a mistcloak for a con I'm going to next week, and basically I just wanted to share that with people who would actually know what I was talking about, rather than just nodding and smiling. I'm also interested in seeing mistcloaks that other people have made -- I've looked around this forum and it looks like several people have done this project, but I've only found pictures of two (which looked great, btw).

My department at school has a special type of sewing machine which will cut and fuse the edges of synthetic fabrics, so that's how I'm doing the fabric strips. Right now I've got just over 200 strips of fabric in various shades of grey, I'm not sure if they'll all make it into the finished piece or not. Some of them lean a little towards the purple side of grey, but I think that all together they will make a nice effect. For the yoke, I'm going to use the top bit of this pattern: http://www.lanetzliving.net/inc/sdetail/96482, cut off just below the shoulders.

I'll post some pictures as I start to actually put stuff together. Again, I would love to see more pictures of mistcloaks that anyone else has made!

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