(Atlantica by Ryan Farish)
- Okay, so this is a great last minute project,
especially if you have some white curtains in your house.
And basically what I'm using are two lovely white
curtains that I have sitting in my house.
These are actually what I use for the summer/springtime
and now that summer and spring's over
I don't need these anymore, so I'm not going to damage
it or anything, I'm not going to cut it up or sew it.
So you can definitely reuse it afterward too, if you like.
So I need about two pieces of this, and if you don't
have any white curtains and if you want
to buy fabric, you can buy some nice flowy fabric
at your local fabric store and what you would need
are about two pieces of 1-1/2 yard
of white flowy fabric like this.
All right, so the next step, I'm using one yard
of this decorative-kind of rope right here.
It's like a gold rope, yeah, if you have like
Christmas decoration, any of these like tassels
or something like that that you could use,
about a yard would be great.
So what you just need to do is make a knot,
and kind of measure, you know, your shoulders,
what would be too much because
this would go over your shoulder
and it would hold onto the fabric.
So I think this is something perfect.
This is about like eight inches in length
when you pull it out like that.
So I'm just going to double knot that
just to hold it in place.
Nothing too hard, you know just lightly
double knot it and then later on
we'll tuck these ends in, so don't worry
about that now.
Okay, so I'm going to put this part right here
on the manikin on the shoulder,
one side of the shoulder, right here.
The next thing I'm going to do is I'm going
to take this curtain out and I want
the wrong side facing inward, just remember
where you put the wrong side.
I'm going to bunch this up together,
and I'm going to put it in the loop,
just like this, put it in the loop,
pull it through, you don't want
to pull it all the way through,
you want one side to be longer
than the other side.
So this side is going to be in the inside
and then this side's going to be facing
the outside of the dress.
So this is the outside part of the dress,
and then the shorter part will be
the inside of the dress, okay?
So it kind of acts like a lining.
All right, so I'm going to do
the same thing with this piece of fabric,
remember you want the longer side
on the outside, just like that.
So that's pretty simple.
That's it, so now we're going
to put this over the manikin just like that,
all right, and you kind of want to pull the fabric,
you know that way it can cover the body,
and for this, if you guys are using
like a material like mine which is kind of see through,
even if you use two layers,
you can still kind of see through somewhat.
So I would recommend wearing a slip dress
underneath this or a strapless white dress,
something like that.
I do have a slip dress that I will wear
underneath this, so it's going to look like that.
And you just want to drape it over,
and you can do this on your body too.
All right, so I'm just going to show you how
you know, if I was to put it on myself,
how I would do it.
So with this knot right here you could
actually twist it over a few times too,
make it look more decorative, and then
the other ends tuck it underneath the material.
And there you go, that's how it will look.
So I'm just going to put it on the manikin right now,
just because I'm more mechanical this way.
All right, so the next thing I'm going to do,
I'm going to take out my Christmas decorative ribbons
right here that I have, you know, stored up in the closet.
It looks just something like this,
and you get this at Michael's and stuff too,
and it just costs like, it costs barely anything,
just like a couple dollars.
Okay, so once you have your material in place,
okay, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to wrap
this around
the waist to give it
some shape for this dress.
Now I'm going to cross it around just like this,
and you'll just secure it in the back.
So that is basically it.
This is just you know very basic, but yet
it looks really
it looks really pretty.
And you just kind of make some adjustments.
And then I'm just going to take out
my gold accessories that I brought
from the thrift store a while ago,
and if you have any gold accessories sitting around
just take that out, play around with it,
add some, you know, decorative pieces to the dress.
Make it look more goddess like.
So yeah, that is basically it and I hope you guys
have a wonderful halloween.
(Atlantica by Ryan Farish)