Wendy Watson - The Middle Man (Clothing Completion and Wig Styling)

Remaining Tasks
 

• Belt Accessories
  
• Weapon (?)

Well would you look at that! Officially there is no more sewing to be done! It's time I trade in my sewing machine in favor of leather dying. I want the leathers to match flawlessly so I will be basing the color for all of the pieces off of my boots. Tonight I pick up the leather dye and get to work! I also need to paint the tips of the weapons so they're not endowed with ultra-cheesy neon tips.

The first thing I wanted to do was to restyle the wig because as I had mentioned in a previous post, after seeing it in pictures, I realized it was a bit messy looking and needed to be re-done. It took hardly any time at all. Most of the time spent on it was in separating the necessary chunks of hair. Wigs don't exactly function the same way that real hair does so when you try to put it in a ponytail the same way it tends to shows the netting underneath. Ewww. This is how I went about making my ponytail (and I must have done something right because my cousin thought it was my real hair. woo hoo!)

1. First I sectioned off the bangs so that they were out of the way. I knew that I wanted the ponytail to be about even with my eyes so I made my section split while keeping that in mind. If the hair was in two sections, it would be easier to conceal both the top and the bottom netting underneath.
   
2. After I had my sections all worked out I clipped the top half out of the way. I would suggest using the clips I have pictured (sorry, I don't know what they are called) instead of using rubber bands. Rubber banding your sections is a sure way to tangle you wig and get frustrated. To have the hair raised as high as I needed it to be without having my real hair poking out underneath, I gathered the hair and left a little excess to leave a natural looking drape without any strain on the netting.
3. Once you have your lower section gathered in place, add in the top section and *carefully* rubber band it. If you pull too tightly it will screw it all up and you will have to start all over again, but if you are too loose with it it will just tumble out so be careful. It make take you a time or two to get it right, but it's really not all that difficult at all. ;)

The only thing left to do at that point was to finish off my hemming and add buttons to both the shirt and the jacket. Both of which were successfully completed. I followed the same rolled hem method as before because I am without both my serger and a hem-rolling pressure foot. Ugh! Do I smell a trip to JoAnn's Fabrics? Why yes I do!

Tonight I am heading off to Tandy Leather Factory to grab some leather and dye, an army  surplus store to stock up of radical-bo-badical utility belt gear, and JoAnn's fabrics (told you so) for various accessories and general supplies that would, quite frankly, make my life just that much easier. Final progress post should be tomorrow!!!