Gala Progress

So, I made quite a lot of progress this week, which is good, seeing as Gala is in 2 weeks.  I only have one "must do" task left, and everything else is lagniappe.

Firstly, I finally found the pendant.  At first, I was debating these, although I wasn't won over by either:

Then, I went to Hancock fabrics for ribbon (sales, whee!).  Of course, the store with the smallest jewelry selection had something perfect:

Sorry for the poor picture quality.  A lot of these turned out blurry.

So I got two.  One for the belt (above) and the other for the top (although I didn't use the two extra pieces on the top).

I also had to do the straps.  Again, the pictures insist on staying sideways, and the color variation doesn't show well, but I layered the top's fabric over a sparkly red chiffon. I also added the fringe, but I forgot to take a picture.  

But I do have one when I laid everything out for comparison early on.

This is before I sewed them in properly. I didn't take a current picture.  Whoops!

All that's left on the top is getting the back straps the correct length.  I'll have proper pictures of the top next week.

I did almost the whole belt yesterday, after Jenny helped with the design last week.  I sewed on the pendant stuff and used Fabri-Tac glue to attach the trim.  I like sewing them on, but the glue was SOOOO much faster.

In progress

 It's mostly done, but I want to add a little more trim or something in the center--it's a little plain.

laced back

This is how I did the lacing loops.

Well, hopefully next week, I'll have some pictures with the costume finished and actually ON. Whoohoo!