The Beast continues

The pattern pieces for the tail coat all went together well but I needed to take off 2” at the side front to make it sit properly at the front.  I was admiring my sleeveless jacket when the obvious suddenly hit me...I hadn’t cut out the sleeves!

I measured the armscye...26”, and then the longest bit of fabric left...23”!  It took me a moment (luckily not long enough for me to have a complete breakdown) to realise that the jacket was being made from a PAIR of curtains.  So the sleeves for the Beast’s jacket will need to be cut from the other curtain and the fabric left from the first jacket is enough for the Prince’s jacket....phew, panic over!

As it was getting late I left the sleeves and instead sewed on the stand collar.  Then merrily sat and pinned the lace to the sleeveless jacket so I could spend the rest of the evening looking at it and seeing if there was anything I noticed that I didn't like.

I did spend the evening wisely and ordered a lovely curly wig and a cat mask.  The wig will have the horns sewn onto it and me and Auntie Em are hoping to have wire in them so we can put them in different positions.  The cat mask was ordered after a long debate on how to go about the Beast’s face.  I was adamant that we would not be doing face paint for the performance.  Not only is it likely to run, the same actress has to be the prince at the end so we don't want to be hurrying to wash off face paint when she has to do a quick change.

We contemplated making a mask ourselves, either with foam or paper mache, but in the end went for a pressed cardboard cat mask that we can add our own paper mache to and make it more beastly than kitty.  It will then be painted and hopefully this will work but for the grand sum of £3.99 I won’t be terribly upset if this plan doesn't work.

I’m hoping we will end up with something like this...or something approximately near to maybe like this will do!