{"id":1398,"date":"2011-10-15T21:43:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T04:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2015-08-01T09:38:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T16:38:58","slug":"three-day-assiut-challenge-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/three-day-assiut-challenge-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Day Assiut Challenge – Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well.. I didn’t quite get that bra done in 48 hours, but all hope is not lost.\u00a0 Today was the Saturday of Bedouin Bazaar<\/a> and I had a bit of time between watching performances, catching up with old friends, and selling books, to do a bit of work.\u00a0 While the bra was mostly done, I had a few things that needed to be addressed.\u00a0 First, it needed something – anything – done to the center front to give it a bit of swing and flash. After I had laid out all of my jewelry, I found one of my jewelry pieces, a Jean Jingler, would work admirably for a decoration on this bra.\u00a0 If not permanently, than perhaps just for this weekend.<\/p>\n

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Jean Jingler I selected for my embellishment. This is one of my last fiew, and I believe it didn’t get selected because the contrast between the brassy triangle and the bright silver of the chain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, when I laid the piece out I noticed that there were not enough coins to reach all the way to the clasps.\u00a0 So, I had a bit of work to do.\u00a0 So while I was hanging out at the show, I cannibalized s bracelet and applied them to the selected Jean Jingler to fill in the gap.<\/p>\n

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This gap is too big for my tastes, so I need to add a few coins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Gap filled, time to apply to the bra.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The center piece needs to be firmly stitched at the center front. I stich it to the bottom edge using a double strand of upholstery thread.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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For the outer edges, I stitch on a tailor’s loop to serve as an anchor point for the clasp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lather, rinse, repeat.\u00a0 I made a tailor’s loop on the other side as well and hooked the clasp.\u00a0 At that point, I started doing some cleaning up of the stitching, making the front angles a bit neater, cleaning up some of the loose edges.\u00a0 When I was “done enough” because, you know, this kind of finishing work can go on forever, I paused and held the bra up to me.\u00a0\u00a0 The appearance of this bra caused a but of a fuss as the vendors around me oohed and ahhhed over the progress.\u00a0 Thanks to Jackson for snapping this picture of me.<\/p>\n

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And here I am, holding up the bra for a peek. I think this will work!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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David of Scandinavia preparing for performance Bedouin Bazaar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although I think it’s good enough for now, I’m interested in finishing up the edges around the center a bit better.\u00a0 I think some trim or another piece of assiut as an applique to cover the plain black triangle. This Jean Jingler looks pretty good.\u00a0 I think I’m going to leave it as is for tomorrow’s performance.<\/p>\n

I was especially excited to see that I wasn’t the only person with assiut at the event.\u00a0 David of Scandinavia<\/a> performed in a fantastic robe.\u00a0 He was in the middle of preparing for his piece and posing for pictures with some fans.\u00a0 I really love the diamond grid pattern with snow-flake like pattern down the back of his robe and the row of heart-enhanced camels in a band near the hem.<\/p>\n

I hunted through the dealer’s offerings and found another assiut gem.\u00a0 But I’ll have photos of that later.\u00a0 For now, I’m going to hit the hay… Tomorrow, a live performance with John Bilezikjian<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Happy Costuming!\u00a0 Dawn Devine ~ Davina<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

ps – Oh yes, I know, my three day challenge turned into a four day event.\u00a0 But I really like the way this bra is turning out.\u00a0 I’ll follow up with finishing details when I get home and back to the studio. ~ D<\/p>\n

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Well.. I didn’t quite get that bra done in 48 hours, but all hope is not lost.\u00a0 Today was the Saturday of Bedouin Bazaar and I had a bit of time between watching performances, catching up with old friends, and selling books, to do a bit of work.\u00a0 While the bra was mostly done, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[45,8,10,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assiut-assuit","category-belly-dance","category-belly-dance-costuming","category-design"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/JeanJingler1.jpg?fit=504%2C378&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YZtR-my","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3404,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions\/3404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}