Rob: Hey, what’s up, Rob and Corinne here, welcome to a very special edition of Thread Heads
Rob: Because this week we responsive to bear our new movies anytime.
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Corinne: We are here in the famous smooth fabrics in L.A., and we are going to get an exclusive interview with Sweeney Todd Extraordinaire Colleen Atwood.
Male: The costume is designed by one of the best costume designers in the business, Colleen Atwood. She is a magician. He has a role of Academy Awards that speaks for itself. I have worked with Colleen many, many times and he has more important than anybody does. Costumes are another character in the movie, most of the great actors I have worked with. when they put on a costume they become the character, it helps them find who the character is, helps your performance provoke in that. It is no doubt change me
Colleen Atwood: Hi, my name is Colleen Atwood. I am a costume designer in the film industry. It is really one of the great things about working on movies is that you get to every time explore a new world. Edward Scissor hands are still one of my favorite movies of all the movies I have done over the years. The first things I have ever made were doll clothes. I really like to cut up things and make clothes by tying them around because I wasn’t very patient with the needle and thread. My first lessons for fashion sewing came from my two grandmothers. I have one grandmother who was a fantastically stylish woman, very Schick, and then my other grandmother was like a superior hall maker but she really knew how to saw, she knew how to darn so she thought me how to saw with the needle and thread.
Male: Taking away mad at needle, you have to think that they are not to speak some, you know…
Colleen Atwood: Yeah, I should have, I have not but….
Female: Well, you can thank them right here.
Colleen Atwood: I thank my Grandmother Rose and my Grandma Rogers.
Colleen Atwood: The best advice I can give somebody just starting out in design, whether it is costume design or fashion design is “Not to be afraid to teach yourself, you can learn a lot from other people obviously”. But, it is, there is something to be said for not being afraid to try to touch it with your own hands and do it yourself. I mean, I made some ugly stuff in my life I could probably shame, but still it is good to know how it happens and it is important to know what fabric does and let the fabric guide you out there.
Male: Hey, do not go anywhere. We will be right back with some more Sweeney Todd madness.
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Male: Tom and Timber in costumes are all on the forums.
Female: So this week, we are making some Sweeney Todd inspiring costumes at a regular trickster fans.
Colleen Atwood: I absolutely recycle a lot of times and a lot of ideas from my work has come from the odd piece I’ve seen in them. You know in this restore I mean, but it is great fun to go out and get inspirations from that in fabrics as well.
Female: First up, the Bridal Pedi cab. This was about $10 at goodwill, but I got mine for five but now, it is time to dye
Male: All that platter?
Female: No, no, no. Not like that, like this. Okay, before you dye anything, the first you are going to need are a pair of rubber gloves, some red dye, an old towel, newspaper, a large pot, soap, detergent, and the stirrer.
First, put down some newspaper, put on the gloves, open the dye, and read the directions a couple of times. Next, fill up your pot with hot water, add the packages of dye, a scoop of detergent, some salt, and stir very well. Then, heat up the water on the stove. Okay, all we need to do to get this done and it is ready to dye is going to completely soak it with water.
And since the item that we are going to dye is pretty large, I am going to use a big plastic tub to do the actual dyeing processing. Although I was just doing right in the pot where we created the dye bath. Okay, now put your garment in the dye bath and completely submerge it.
You want to leave this in here for about half an hour and the whole time you will be moving it around, because this will need constant agitation to get the most of the uniform color. Once you have reached your desired color, take it out and thoroughly rinse it out with cold water, then hang it up to dry.
I am very happy with all these came out, look at the color, it is gorgeous, and the tool even came out a nightshade of purple, I love dyeing stuff.
Male: Well, Prince Petty coat dries, I am going to show you a quick and easy way to embellish a button up shirt inspired by this shirt I got from Sumo.
First, you got a solid color button up, then either some second button up with some kind of pattern or any cool piece of fabric. Now cut out six, one and a half to two inch strips up the length of your shirt. Next, you are going to ham your strips to the zigzag stitch unless you got a surger, and from the color down, start attaching you fabric strips.
To get the ruffle, just scrunch the fabric strips up on the foot of your sewing machine and attach down a length of your shirt. Now you got yourself a roughly Victorian, trashy, Sweeney, Toddy, sumo inspired kind of shirt. Cheers
Female: Now that this is all dry, it is time for some fun. With this I am going to make a Victorian masterpiece. Just cut a little here, and a little bit more here, cut the bottom ruffle of the other layer, pin it about the top ruffle, add some ruffles around the color like wrapped shirt, add an old corsair and some simple sleeves, and sew it all together.
And you’re having so much fun.
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Corinne: Well that’s the end for this week, but make sure you check out the new Sweeney Todd movie in hit theaters today, Friday, December 21.
Rob: And big thanks on for not answering this week’s show, and hooking it up with an awesome interview from Colleen Atwood.
Corinne: Got a comment? Leave it below.
Rob: So next week. We are out of here.
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