Keep Calm and Carrion: Crafting Con Blog Tour: Everyday Mulan and Shang

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Crafting Con Blog Tour: Everyday Mulan and Shang

I am SO EXCITED for this post. Like dancing around my room, been geeking out to BBC shows while writing, singing Viral Song in my head... Okay, well that is pretty clear. In case you were wondering, we are a family of nerds. I have as many books as I do fabric, and I keep buying them, because e-books don't have that *smell* that real books do. Inara and Connor get their names from characters on shows that we love, and if you've seen some of my tester pics, you've seen peeks of the very geeky Dr. Who and Sailor Moon tattoos...

So now that's off my chest - welcome to my post on the CraftingCon - Is My Geek Showing? - Blog Tour. I am honored and excited to be part of this event. It is totally up my alley, if you hadn't noticed by the ... Series of Geeky Rockstar Raglans or maybe the Zelda Inspired flailing attempt at quilting. So when Amy and Tasha of Friends Stitched Together and Maegan and Karen of MaeandK announced their plan for this competition I knew that I had to be part of it. And to help introduce all of the amazing themes, I have decided to introduce you all to my Disney Heroes...

CraftingCon Disney Heroes by Keep Calm and Carrion

Meet Mulan and Baby Shang (who are seriously impossible to get into a picture together).
We were going for every day wear, with some Disney flare, and I am so excited with how it all turned out.

For Inara's tunic I used the Harper from LittleDressPattern as my base. I flipped the facing to the outside and used a silver piping to give it the neck detail. I also decided to skip the elastic at the waist and used the sash to tuck in at the sides, giving it a more Mulan-like look. I also left the ruffle off, since it is much easier to sword fight in a tunic than a dress.

And then I decided that little man needed in on the geek action too. So he got a comfy every day Shang outfit. The pants are the Agathe and Theo Slouchy Pants from Filles a Maman and the top is the the Omigami from Opulent Monsters. He probably could have gotten away with the 18mo in the top, but I keep secretly hoping that he's growing, lol.

Mulan and Shang clearly needed to train by fighting each other. He hasn't quite learned how to outwit her all the time. Usually he just sneaks up behind her and bashed her in the head with a Minecraft sword, so his head on attacks need work.

All good warriors have some team bonding time too - and these two are no different. They go from full out war to best friends in seconds. And they totally loved their outfits. Everyday geekery is something we strive for around here, so this was so much fun for me to get geek them out when given a theme to work with.

My warriors also took a quick training break to tend to their garden boxes with daddy too. Even though it rained that morning, they insist on watering their garden boxes every day. And it was clearly more exciting than taking pictures!

Thank you so much for stopping by! Make sure you check out the other awesome bloggers who are showing their geek off!! And I'll be back in CraftingCon mode in August with an Avengers themed tutorial!