cotton fabric with scallop print, royal blue organza, light turquoise organza, blue lining, sea shell bra, faux pearls in different shades of blue, lots of 6mm sequins: lilac, green-turquoise (probably won't use them, they are a bit too greenish), dark purple, dark blue, iridescent lavender, light blue, iridescent baby blue, dark blue holographic, blue-turquoise and sheer iridescent. Plus: lots of blue nailpolish to paint the shell bra.
For the mermaid tail, I laid the royal blue organza over the cotton fabric. It makes the scallops look more blue-ish and creates a shimmery effect.
Here are some in progress photos. I'm bad at taking pictures and with a flash it's even worse, I know. Sorry for that.
I pinned the pattern on cotton + organza, cut through both layers...
...and serged layers together. I did that twice (the other piece on left side of fabrics) and stitched the pieces together at center seam. Also cut the lining but there are no pictures of that step. Then I cut a strip of royal blue organza, serged all edges and pinned it in pleats on one side of the tail. This is where the "skirt" will open and I think it looks nicer, with a ruffle hiding a bit of the mermaid's actual legs ;-)
Here the difference between the cotton (right) and cotton with a layer of organza (left) shows clearly!
Then I cut a narrower strip of the light-turquoise organza, pinned it in smaller pleats on top of the left side of the blue ruffle and stitched trough all layers. Hopefully this will add some depth and contrast to the first ruffle without showing too much. I'm going to do the same to the other opening side but I will finish this tomorrow as I just realized I pinned the ruffles to the wrong side of fabric *facepalm* :-D
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