The Two Elizabeths

For this week's lab hours, Mandi and I were assigned to wash all those stinky and dirty costumes that the actors will be wearing for the play. Although doing the laundry is supposed to be easy, we still had some challenges. But that was mainly because the washing machine is so vintage and works differently from the ones we have used before. In the end, however, we were successful in making those clothes smell nice and look clean again.




Elizabeth (the one playing Michelle) also came during our lab hours. We had her try several of the dresses that we chose for her and they looked stunning. The photo on the right shows one of my most favorite costumes for her because she had this amazing glow with that pastel-colored dress.

The other Elizabeth (the one playing the nurse) also came and tried the newly washed nurse costume. We had her try size 10 before and it was too tight, but luckily for us we found a size 14. And amazingly, the size 14 on was really good on her. It was so perfect that it looked like it was made for her body.







Christina and I also painted several buttons that we thought might look good on Dan's clothes. I painted a PacMan button and it looked pretty decent, but Christina's ghostbusters pin was the loveliest. See the photo of the button here: (click here)

Playing Dress-Up: Lab Journal

This week I had to split my lab hours apart in order to get them both in. The first lab hour I spent Practicing and playing around with the sewing machine and the serger.  While working on the sewing machine, I learned that there is a reason we sew material and not paper. Paper is so much harder. It would get kinda stuck when I tried to turn it and occasionally tare instead of gliding easily through. The serger was a bit more fun than I expected it to be. I felt quite accomplished when I successfully changed the threads. However, I ran into a little trouble when I tried to actually serge a piece of material. I'm not sure what was wrong with it, all the threads were coming out right where they were supposed to be, but for some reason none of the threads would hold on to the material. It was weird. Ingrid didn't really know what was wrong with it either, so I put a note on it and went on to look at the other serger to see how to rethread that one. After that I had to leave for a bit to go to a couple classes. The second lab hour I spent measuring the two girls who did come for their fittings and pulling outfits for them. It was fun- like looking for costumes for Halloween and shopping combined. :) Everyone there was super enthusiastic about it and together we came up with multiple costumes tat I think will work very well for this play. It also helped a ton that Kim could pull off almost everything we put her in. It was a lot of fun and really helped to get me excited for this play!