[[Progress in sewing -NEW- Yarn wig on pg 5!]]

Indeed!! ^^ Thank you~ Sewing by hand takes SOOOOO LONG. D: I hate it. lol But I tend to trust my hand more than a sewing machine. ^^;; I have a new sewing machine now and I used it the other night to make a hoodie, which I shall post pictures of when I get off work this evening. But using a sewing machine is harder work for me than sewing by hand. :/ I feel like I have much more control over sewing by hand. A lot of the time (perhaps I'm just doing it all wrong) the sewing machine goes crazy and the strings get tangled up on my fabric and it's a total bi*ch to rip all of the strings. :/ So, in any case, I'm practicing with the sewing machine to try and get better. ^_^

Sorry for that rambling. lol Glad you like my clothes!

 

New striped, furry sort of hoodie thing!!

I made this the other night and I actually used my sewing machine! \o/ Yaaayz! I used James' hoodie pullover pattern and my boyfriend helped me scale it down using photoshop. I sewed all the pieces together with the sewing machine except for the pocket and all the lining around the hood/pockets. I sewed those by hand.







I used a little kid's hoodie I found at a thrift store for the fabric. :3 I really like it. Sort of like a towel. I took the lining off the hood of the hoodie. X3 I love reusing lining. One of my few complaints is that the lining at the neck is overlapped and it sticks up a bit. Not sure if I'll try to correct it. Perhaps if it bothers me enough. *shrug*

From the side:


Back:


Another major problem: XD The hood is WAY too short or something.. Even though we sized it down equally, it just didn't work when it came to the hood.. Next time I make a hoodie, I'll have to edit the hood part of the pattern to make it bigger/longer. Until then, Sparrow just won't be able to go out in the rain. lol... She looks like a Cosmonaut here..


Yep, stupid.


Oh well. It looks fine as long as the hood is down, and she likes it anyway. XD Live and learn.


Thanks for looking! \o/

 

D: That sucks so bad. Maybe I'll just not make any more hoodies. lol Maybe that's an article of clothing I'll just have to buy. :/ Ah well.

 

Hmmm... *taps chin* Well, it took several hours, but it wasn't that hard. Like I said, I used the sewing machine and that made it faster, but also, using the sewing machine for the first time was scary. X3 Overall? It wasn't that hard. It takes trial and error (hood being the error), but it's definitely worth trying. =D

 

Aw man. Maybe the machine just needs oiling? That could be it. But concerning hadnstitching, yeah, it can take a very long time. ;3 I'm a total perfectionist, so if I'm afraid I'll mess up with the sewing machine, or if it's very detailed/small work, then I'll always chose my reliable hands and a thread and needle anytime.

 

XD I'd hate to have to make an up and down hood. How annoying. In any case, thanks for the support! \o/

 

Thank you~! ^^ I'm so glad you like it!

 

Thank you~! ^^ I'm so glad you like the hats! And yeah, I totally agree with you. They're my favorite things that I've made. XD And sooo simple. Sparrow ALWAYS has a little hat on, until recently, when I bought her a new fur wig. X3

And definitely! You should buy those fur swatches, because you can make some cute stuff from them. X3 I would highly recommend anyone getting them because they're completely free, and even if you screw up, you didn't lose any money out of the deal. ~_^

 

Thank you~ ^^ I appreciate your comments quite a bit, considering how wonderful you are at making like, everything! XD

 

Hmm, I see you have a DZ. Perhaps the Kid Delf heads are bigger than DZ heads? :/ Maybe that's why it fit? Not sure. X3 Either way, good job on getting it right. lol

 

Yarn wig!!!

I made this wig before Sparrow got here, but it was WAY too big. I finally got around to editing it today and it finally fits (thanks to some trimming and some safety pins in the back X3;;;..)... So, I wanted it to look like those pvc dreadlocks people put in their hair, but Sparrow likes to call them "cheerlocks"! \=D/






















Sorry for picspam. ^^; Thanks for looking! \o/

 

@WindGuardKT: Thank you so much~! ^o^ My boyfriend wasn't sure about a yarn wig when I mentioned it to him, either. XD He called her "Raggedy Ann" today. I'm so glad you like my stuff, though! ^-^

 

Alicethorn: Hot glue. XD

Mandar8587: ^-^ Most welcome!

 

@Nana: ^_^ Thanks!

@Atsuhiko: I went to undead threads and used the furwig pattern she has (it was actually way too big, which is why I had to trim the wig down so much later). I just used regular fabric with the pattern to make a wig cap. I then cut all the yarn pieces to the length I wanted, and then hot glued them all to the wig cap. Voila! lol There's your tutorial. Extraordinarily ghetto. Since I've made that fur wig on the 3rd page or so, I have forumlated a much better wig pattern than the undead threads one, so next time I try to make a yarn wig (never lol) then I'm going to use that pattern instead, and hopefully it won't have to be held by safety pins. X3

 

@Atsuhiko: Ahh, wires, eh? That could be cool. I'm interested in seeing that. I got that arrow clip (not a charm) from.... Big Lots, I think? lol Which is a low-class Wal*Mart, if you have them near you. A closeout store.

@WindGuardKT: I didn't get to shrink it. I made the whole wig before Sparrow even got here, so after I tried it on her, that's when I realized it was too big. I ended up just cutting and cutting gradually until it fit, and even then, it has to stay pinned with safety pins. :/ Look back to where I made that purple/blue fur wig for a link to a much better pattern. But that one is SD. I had to shrink that one in photoshop to make it fit my MSD, and I don't know by how much I shrank it. ^_^;; I just made a ton of print outs that gradually got smaller until I found one that fit. >_>... Man, I am terribly inefficient at a lot of things, aren't I?

 

^_~ Thanks a ton. Good luck sewing~!

 

I'm sure that's true, but the thick strands are exactly what I was going for. ^_~

 

^_^ Thanks very much for the encouragement! I'm glad you think I've improved! I hope I can continue!

 

*^^* Awww, thank you so much!