So, the next thing on my to do list is the right vambrace. Its not really a vambrace, more just some suede wrapped around Drogo’s arm.

On both of Drogo’s arms he wears some hand wraps, so I went ahead and bought some white boxing wraps for a few quid off eBay which I will age using coffee dyeing and dirty up. I’m using one wrap as a base for the right vambrace – just covering the wrap with brown suedette – most good fabric shops will carry this, I bought a quarter metre which was over double the amount I needed and cost about £1.75.

I started by measuring the width of the wraps and cutting strips along the length of the Suedette fabric. I only needed two – As Drogo’s knuckle is wrapped with dirty white cotton I’m leaving a small section of the wrap uncovered by the fabric.

So, once I had the strips cut they just needed to be stitched on to the wraps using an over-casting stitch – this is quite a simple bit of hand sewing but you’ll need warm up your hands as it feels like a marathon!

Go round the end first ignoring the velcro tab and then along the length of the wrap. I had already marked the point I wanted the suede to stop so when I reached that point I just cut it and used the same stitch to finish that end. Then you can stitch down the other side and that’s that.

Here’s the wrap with the Suedette sewn on. You can see the uncovered wrap at the end with the thumb loop.

The last bit of sewing will be covering the unsightly bit of white velcro at the elbow end of the wrap – just cut a small piece of suede and use the same technique as you have on the body of the wrap.

The sewing is done and with only 19 days to Comiccon I won’t have time to dirty these wraps up as much as i’d like so I’m going to help them along with some coffee dyeing. I just use some instant coffee granules dissolved in some hot water.

The great thing about using coffee or tea beside it being easy and cheap is that you get so many different shades from them and you can dilute or concentrate those shades as much as you like. Like paint you can use a brush or any other method of applying it, and although the colour tends to be a lot lighter I have even used it to dye synthetic materials.

Different techniques work for different people and it’s worth experimenting on some scrap fabric if you haven’t done this before, but all I did in this instance was just stretch and scrunch up the fabric then haphazardly flick coffee over it with my fingers, then scrunch it up a bit more. Here’s the result.

Here’s the finished article. I’m going to have to practice wrapping it because it essentially has to be wrapped in reverse from my elbow down to my knuckle, and if I get time I will coffee stain the rest of the wrap as its quite difficult to stop the underside becoming exposed. All in all, I’m happy with the result.

If you missed my post on creating the left vambrace, you can find it here; https://wecosplay.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/creating-a-femme-khal-drogo-left-vambrace/