So, Xena, yes, well she is kind of ace. I decided since she dresses is brown leather and I had some brown fake leather I would use it. I knew it would be a challenge but I really wanted to do it.
I tried to get Xena's clothing details vaguely right, so I had some of my usual picspam to help me (thank God for Pinterest).
Because it's hard to sew through fake leather (or real leather, I've never tried) and also tough to sew through multiple layers and other stitchery, I decided I would have to carefully pin things in place and sew through the leather first rather than sewing down the X, then the flesh of Xena's head and arms and then the dress as I would normally.
It had all been so much easier when I used the leather for the A for Athena
Xena does look a lil freaky with no hair but that's cos I couldn't be bothered to use fabric and decided to embroider it instead, ditto the sword.
I had intended that Xena's wrist cover would just be embroidery but in a fit of crazies I decided this would be too complicated and switched back to some more of the fake leather. Embroidering through 2 layers of fake leather, plus cloth (2 ish layers for the X and backing and interfacing) was challenging but fortunately it was a small area. Next I was on to the dress embroidering, followed by the arm bands and chakram, then the X and hair and face.
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