I Made Lady Jessica's Costume From DUNE In 3 Days, Using A Medieval Pattern (also some book recs)
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- In this enthralling video, dive into the world of Dune as I recreate Lady Jessica's iconic costume, infusing every stitch with passion and dedication over three days using knit fabric and a medieval kirtle pattern, while also draping a hood from scratch. Alongside the step-by-step process, immerse yourself in the realm of science fiction and fantasy as I share recommendations for beloved books that have inspired me and fuelled my creativity. Whether you're a cosplayer, a Dune enthusiast, or simply someone who appreciates the art of crafting, join me on this journey where fantasy meets reality, and every stitch tells a story of strength, elegance, and resilience.
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Further reading;
Swordspoint - Ellen Kushner
The Drowning Girl - Caitlin R Kiernan
The Summer Prince - Alaya Dawn Johnson
The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater
Six of Crows/Rule of Wolves - Leigh Bardugo
Coldest Girl in Cold Town - Holly Black
Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
The House of Shattered Wings - Aliette de Bodard
The Stars Are Legion - Kameron Hurley
Ninefox Gambit - Yoon Ha Lee
Iron Widow - Xinran Jay Zhou
Spectred Isle - KJ Charles
Winters Orbit - Everina Maxwell
The Warriors Apprentice - Lois McMaster Bujold
In this captivating video, immerse yourself in the intricate world of Dune as I embark on a journey to recreate Lady Jessica's iconic costume from scratch. Delve into the realm of science fiction and fantasy as I bring to life one of the most interesting and beloved characters from Dune Part 1. Join me as I meticulously craft this costume using knit fabric and a medieval kirtle pattern, infusing every stitch with passion and dedication.
Over the course of three days, witness the transformation unfold as I breathe life into Lady Jessica's attire, paying homage to her strength, elegance, and resilience. From selecting the perfect fabric to drafting a hood from scratch, every step of the process is meticulously documented to guide fellow enthusiasts and DIY enthusiasts through their own creative journey.
But this video isn't just about costume creation; it's a celebration of storytelling and imagination. As we delve into the world of Dune, I'll share my favourite science fiction and fantasy books that have inspired me throughout this project. From timeless classics to hidden gems, these recommendations are sure to ignite your imagination and transport you to worlds beyond your wildest dreams.
So, whether you're a seasoned cosplayer, a Dune aficionado, or simply someone who appreciates the art of crafting, join me on this adventure as we pay homage to Lady Jessica and explore the boundless possibilities of creativity and imagination. Get ready to embark on an epic journey where fantasy meets reality, and every stitch tells a story.
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Came for the sewing, staying for the various shenanigans, including book recommendations.
the "a dress to wear around the house--it even has a hood in" to "gown with a two-meter train" is an interesting pipeline lmao but joke's on you I was into scifi-fantasy before I was into the sewing and now I'm into both; unfortunately out of this list, the ones I've heard of, excepting like two, are still TBR pile material. But also I super agree Coldest Girl in Coldtown is severely underrated in Holly Black's bibliography
I watch your channel because you are authentically you, and I like you. You're an amazing artist, whatever the medium; you have depth, and bring that into everything you do, including these videos. Have a beautiful week
Oh, are we doing book recs? The murderbot diaries by martha wells are absolutely amazing. Also, RIP that train if your cat likes pouncing on things dragged along the floor. 😅
Add Le Guin to you TBR list. Left hand of darness is one of the pivotal books I read when young.
A lot of scifi/fantasy writing after WW 2 was one of only places to question society.
Thanks for cursing my tbr, Ash!
Came for the sewing. Stayed for the proper English sense of humour . I do like the dress and I hadn't thought of doing a hood like that!
yay Bujold is on the list. She is just top tier for me and I want Cordelia to adopt me. Also great to see Aliette de Bodard, I prefer her science fiction but amazing. KJ Charles is always great too.
For additional recs - These all have queer main or side characters/worldbuilding.
T Kingfisher / Ursula Vernon. Lovely fantasy romances with practical, decent and often damaged people. I love the world building. It's not afraid to be weird and the gnole side characters are deadpan snarkers who have my heart. The horror stories are apparently very good but I don't want to be terrified so I havn't tried them. These feel cozy to me, despite some dark themes, endings are always satisfying.
Murderbot Series by Martha Wells - Okay, this author writes excellent fantasy too, but the Murderbot series is action/espionage with a genderless main character who was enslaved. Very anti-capitalist, lots of identity feels, slow character growth with no instant fixes.
Celia Lake - Historical Urban Fantasy Romance set around and in the world wars. They have some of the absolute best disability, trauma and neurodivergent rep I've ever read. Excellent well thought out worldbuilding, great character relationships, and some unexpected plot structures. Very cozy, they deal with the aftermath instead of immersion into traumatic events.
The Four Profound Weaves by R. B. Lemberg - really unique magical desert setting ( not anything like Dune ) with transgender main characters. One is dealing with the aftermath of their transition. It also features craft-magic which I always enjoy.
As the parent of a fledgling trans woman, I very much appreciate your book recs, as I always enjoy your content!
The dress is great! The train is fun and can be used to collect cat hair! 😅 Go with it cause there will always be cat hair!
I made some notes of books but to be honest my tbr pile is already longer than is possible!
Have you read any C.J. Cherryh or Harry Harrison?
K.J. Charles: yes, all of them. I have read about as many as you have, and I dole out the rest when things are terrible in my life.
Yeah, you hooked me with a coat, but past that, I've stayed because Ash has a new video out. 🤔 Sometimes UA-cam doesn't tell me Ash has a new video out, and I have to go looking, only to find Ash has 4 videos I haven't seen, and there's a backlog of much older videos I wasn't told about, either.
LOVE the Dune dress. Also love the book suggestions, and the fact that you keep trying to educate us as to the ways of the LARP.
Carry on.
Iron Widow is excellent and I consider that a spot on review. I love it when I've got a review to calibrate the other recs from!
I really enjoyed The Expanse novels. I had looked up the show because my roommate was watching it. I wanted to know if it was going to have a major cliffhanger - cuz eff that (write fascinating characters, your audience will come back, no cliffhangers required!) and someone online says enh... the books are better. The books? You mean, the entire series, with more nuance, and the series is complete? An entirely available through my library... The 7 books might be daunting... but they are really good. Too tired to remember enough to explain them...
And I definitely showed up for the sewing, and welcome the sci fi recs.
I second the K J Charles recommendation. She's an excellent author. The Magpie Lord series has magic in it. All of her books have queer/gay representation. Keep reading her stuff. You'll love it. Promise. :)
Regarding early scifi/fantasy books, Anne McCaffery's Pern isn't too horrible for the time just don't read past the first two trilogies because the books gradually lost the plot. My husband highly recommends David Weber's Honor Harrington series for the space opera, galatic war, political plots deal. It's interesting, but not my cup of tea.
And the dress looked very nice when you finished.
I feel exactly the same about the Pern books. But the first two Harper Hall books are just amazing.
Came for the sewing, stayed for you being amazing and awesome, now I'm re-watching for the literary reviews when I'm not too uncaffeinated to onboard the important literary recommendations. Have you heard of A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine?
❤ Once again, WOW. I will read as many of your recommendations as I can get on audio for my commute…. I might not still teach middle school kids, but I keep hoping. And one more time, WOW. That is an amazing outfit. I am IN LOVE with the hood! I have a new “must have” and will make the time for a hood like this.
I like Holly Black and Aliette de Bodard (I started with the Xuya Universe) and I'm a big fan of Lois McMasters Bujold I started reading Ellen Kushner back when she was submitting short stories to anthologies and S/SF magazines (I'm a *huge* fan of mythopoetic fantasy, urban fantasy and Space Opera (Thanks to Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Moon)). I'm looking at the rest of the books you suggested - some interesting stuff there, thanks.
Try the Tiger and Del series by Jennifer Roberson (Male and Female sword fighters) (she started with the "Chronicles of The Chesuli" series which I enjoyed). Also anything by M.C.A. Hogarth. Some lovely writing by her. Also I like Seanan McGuire's , Annie Bellet's and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's books (wish it was easier to get Yarbro's Count Saint-Germain's series without paying an arm and a leg) . I'll stop there. . .
Hogarth's Kherishdar books are amazing! Seanan McGuire and Annie Bellet I also enjoy. Will have to check out the others :)
For dress form draping I love Nick Verreos' videos. I find him delightful and he explains all of the steps from drafting to making the final pattern properly. His series where he makes a prom dress for his neice especially I found so useful! Also, I was bought a relatively cheap expandable dressform as a gift so I've padded it to my actual dimensions (RedThreadeds video on this is 10/10) and then sewed a tube of stretch material to cover it so now I can pin into it almost everywhere. Its not perfect but I've had so much fun sewing with it! 😁
Came for the sewing, stayed for the experiments and will stay until hyper fixation on making costumes for the books I read runs dry ( 5+ years maybe
I have mad mad love for the Vorkosigan Saga.
Have you ever read earths children? Book 1 is clan of the cave bear and is more of a world building part of the story so sometimes feels slow and other times rushed but the following books are magical (except the last one which the author wrote in her 90s and needed a better editor for her clearly senile brain as a lot of the book repeats itself). Anyways the series is very feminist forward with a strong female lead but there are all variations of sexuality and cross dressing discussed and those considered to have masculine and feminine traits are considered to be closer to nature/the mother and are encouraged to become leaders and teachers as they have both sets of wisdoms in one body. I just loved reading this as a teenager when being gay was only just starting to be seen as “OK” never mind superior 😂.
GNU Sir Terry
I love "Shards of Honor", but I didn't read it until after I'd gotten to "Cetaganda"-ish, starting from "Warrior's Apprentice". Cordelia is The Objective Best. (Gotta admit, "Was bisexual. Now he's monogamous." makes me wince every time. Like you get what was meant but ... argh.) I read somewhere that the whole thing started as "What if a Starfleet officer and a Klingon were marooned together?" and branched out into "What kind of society would you need to produce the Klingons as they are shown?", and then she filed off the serial numbers and did some original worldbuilding.
I read Dune when I was way, way too young for it.
Cordelia is fantastic and the Red Queen book is just Chef's Kiss
You need to read Bujold's 'Gentlemen Jole and the Red Queen'. That sheds a lot more light on Cordelia's marriage.
I mean, I have read it. Twice, in fact. I'm not sure what that has to do with infelicitous phrasing from a much older book.@@aussie_vonnie
I have read it. Twice, in fact. I'm not sure what that has to do with infelicitous phrasing from a much older book.@@aussie_vonnie
You should read the wheel of time books they are better than the show
Also Maria Grace’s Jane Austin series
I love the hood I might make one
i didn't know there were new books from Leigh Bardugo, , will be reading them excitedly !!! i have pretty editions of the six of crows and crooked kingdom and did not caare for shadow and bone.
You should absolutely do a costume/cosplay/outfit based on Makee from the Halo Series. You would be AMAZING for it.
Sewing my favorite dress and giving sci Fi recommendations?? Sign me in!! I'm going to watch it a second time later just to add the books to my tbr, I love it, my favorite video of yours so far
I reread the Miles Vorkosigan series annually along with The Exordium series by Sherwood Smith & Dave Trowbridge. Being an old lady I still enjoy some RAH.
So many book recs I want to check out, thank you!
I've already read the Ann Leckie ones, I love them so much (and I'm soooooo mad at the french translation! So mad! Brecq's language doesn't have a masculine form, every "citizen" is a "her", it's actually quite important as it shows the lack of respect of the colonizer mindset and so on, so whyyyy did they translate it as Brecq talking in a MASCULINE first person!! WHY!!!)
The dress is lovely. The train is perfect, as is the hood. Well done.
My solution to the dress form was to get a half-size one. I'm slowly padding it up to my actual size (body dysmorphia, she is real). The theory is I can play with draping things and then blow it up to full-size for mock-ups. The YT channel The Modeliste Studio does some amazing draping - he's a professional sewist in NYC and his videos are gold.
I highly recommend the books of Canadian author Guy Gabriel Kay - especially his first trilogy, The Finovar Trilogy. Thanks for the fiction recommends.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Seconding your recommendation of Leigh Bardugo. I liked Shadow and Bone, but concur that the following novels just get better. She also has (IIRC) some wild modern fantasy/thriller novels.
I love yoon ha Lee's books! I recommend the fiction podcast "The Vela", many of the episodes written by yoon ha lee! Nb characters, anticolonialism, climate change, complex characters
I only have 14 bookcases of books in storage. Of those, half are SF/F. One is of historical and other sewing.
I have lived this life.
@@laurawilliams7782 please tell me you have access to your books.
You captured the essence of the dress.
You can recommend books to me any time. I am familiar with most of those books. I've read about half of them, and most are already in my tbr list. I love Miles! This series doesnt get enough love. Shard of Honor really feels like 80s scf-fi fantasy like Anne McCaffrey, its style and prose was what I was used to. Yes, I am. GenXer. I would be curious what your take on the Teixcalaan duology, Empire called Memory /Desolation called peace by Arcady Martine. I read a fun/lighthearted series you might enjoy; Dan's Hauntastic Haunts by Alex Silver
If you wanted to a booktube episode i would definitely watch it. You have a nice mix of being able to analyze things (fantasy costuming episode) and you seam to enjoy fluffier topics too. You described your recommendations very well, giving us a sense of the book without giving anything away.
Love the Dune dress, love Miles Vorkosigan, and love your channel. You are amazing!
Lovely book choices! 😍 Excellent dress (although killer train may need a bustle to make it safer.) Thank you.
I'm actually a big fan of a lot of 60s SF... but it's mostly the women and POC authors. The 60s were actually a not-bad decade for them, given the context.
I would never have commented on this except for the bit in the video where Dune the book is commented on, but I do not understand how people can like Dune now. The last lines of the first book are something like, "We may be considered concubines now, but history will remember us as wives!" Oh.
I had to read Dune for a university course in the 90s. My entire tutorial hated it, which was cathartic, but those last lines were the final nails in the coffin for me.
I was an English Lit undergrad student at a small c conservative university -- I was used to reading stuff by cis white guys who were most likely dead. But Dune just failed completely on the gender angle. Maiden/mother/crone is just too limited, even for the sixties.
"You know I'm going to try and convert you." lmao.
I constantly try this with speculative poetry. Few things are worthy of conversion, but speculative arts, absolutely! (love the outfit too, though I could never make it past the prose style in Dune myself)
I discovered Miles a long time ago. I would spend more time in the Vorkosigan universe (as a Betan, of course!) If I could. Cetaganda was my first Vor book and I've loved them all.
KJ Charles is great, the Magpie Lord series also has Supernatural elements and I think it's my fav series so-far... but I haven't found one I don't like yet : )
Gorgeous dress. Very stylish and a fantastic outcome given the thin fabric. I also love Six of Crows. It’s a bit weird and disappointing that it’s a duology (is that a word? A 2 book series anyway) given how often authors write trilogies. Totally agree about Shadow & Bone - I’ve read them all once but I have no urge to reread them, whereas Six of Crows etc are regular rereads.
Interesting how we can agree so hard on the Raven Cycle yet have completely different feelings on King of Scars. I HATED that book with a passion unlike anything I've read before or since. I will check out a few of your recommendations. I will leave one of my own too: I've not read everything by TJ Klune yet but everything I have read I loved. His books have so much heart. My favorite is the House in the Cerulean Sea.
Loved the book recommendations and fabulous job on the dress. ❤ Spot on with your opinions about the dress forms and draping.
And book recommendations are a bonus. I think it's every reader's problem to find a new series you love. Never wa a fan of Dune though. Cis white female here and only recently woke so keep that in mind please. I couldn't care less what gender or orientation the character are though. A good book is a good book.
About 30 years ago i read Asimov (sf) and loved it.
Jordan, The wheel of time though a bit too long.
David and Leigh Eddings, almost everything they wrote
And vampire stories are my favorites, especially Ann Rice.
If I may add a favorite of mine? Witchmark Book 1 of the Kingston cycle by C. L. Polk
I can't remember how i came across your channel. If you participated in costube, that might be it. I have never cosplayed but i stay for your charming personality (i love your sense of humor), your intro (reptiles) and your outro.
you've read The Prisoner of Zenda but have you read The Henchman of Zenda by KJ Charles? based on the former but fun and gay :)
I love scifi and fantasy, the society and world building, and exploration and questioning of norms. Magic, talents, and advanced/regressed civilisations add to it. I do enjoy some vintage scifi, if only to compare current tech to what they envisioned. Some things are spot on, then there are big holes such as no mobile phone!
The Liaden Universe®️ by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller is extensive and involves multiple universes and multiple societies/peoples. I generally reread it once a year plus whenever a new book comes out.
Liking to give strength, not to encourage doing things you feel uncomfortable with :)
The book reviews/suggestions were a brilliant addition. Several are now on my list. Thanks!
I have read 1 of KJ Charles book. A Thief in the Night, I have a few of the others in my audible account to listen to.
I think you definitely need to try some Dune 2 costumes.... that'd be epic!
Tired : The spice must flow!
Wired: The dress must flow!
Very impressive work! The costume design on Villeneuve's Dune is just * chef's kiss * ! Coincidentally, your video showed up in my recommendations literally minutes after I bought tickets to go & see Dune 2 this evening.
If you wanted to wear this out to a festival, or something similar, could you possibly make a finger ring on the train? I know they do this with a lot of wedding dress trains so as not to be dangerous for the bride & guests. I think you did an awesome job. Of course, with your figure you can wear anything & look fantastic.
I would also recommend the Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey it has a well realised fantasy world with romance that is not just heterosexual depending on the sub series.
Good news! No conversion necessary! I may have found you with the sewing but also enjoy a good portion of the books too. Thanks for the newer book to look into.
Thanks. My Libby holds are now full.
Love the dress and very much appreciate the book recs.
But we love you
Book recs? Runns to get pencil and notebook...
Excellent listening to material while hand sewing
I've read and loved enough of these that I'm adding most of the rest to my list 😆
9:10 this line! Im dead! This is so funny! 😂
A comment for the algorithm gods!
This was also my favorite outfit of hers from the first movie
What about the Pern saga
As a young teen, I ended up reading Dune and then the fourth book in the series, because those were the two that I found lying around in the clubhouse of the gliding club my parents were members of. It was a very strange experience XD I've since read the synopses of books 2 and 3 and don't feel like I've missed much...!
Also yeeeessss Ancillary Justice
I love the hood!
Have you read Patrick Rothfuss?