Wearables Sewing Project: Designer’s Choice! [ Round 100 ]

@Valdemagra: overposting? Heck, no. Keeping us inspired. That's so cute! Love the hooded cape.

I've just found out that the materials for Vanye's out fit are not, afterall, where I expected them to be. ARGH!!!!! Remodelling is the pits! So...excavation time.

@SteamWitch: ARGH. I so wish my little guys were here. I've got one of each body...including Jane...on their way...someday. I don't really expect them until October, so I'm basking vicariously in your posts. I see you've resized simplicity patterns. Do you have a source for digital patterns or did you scan and reduce them yourself?

 

I used a Simplicity Ken and Barbie pattern so I had to do some adjusting for it fit better around the neck and fiddle with the width of everything a bit. So far they have worked well. The pants pattern went through several iterations (and many darts) before I finally made a pair that fit around them without butt crack problems when sitting, lol.

 

LOL indeed. I solved the problem with the ChicLines by making it in curved pieces rather than darts...sort of like a princess seam for the rump.

More playing with my wigs. Wesley's was too, too blonde. I really wanted a more sunbleached look. So I took a permanent acrylic pen in bronze, sectioned off pieces of hair like I was doing a dyejob, used a Q-tip to dap the hair with alcohol, then dabbed the pen along the root split and combed it out toward the edge. It's a subtle effect, but I think it turned out pretty cool.


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went with the silly project. This is fun technique with felt, appliqué on one side and cut out the main color on the reverse side. its the cut out side you see here. I have wanted for a long time to do a complicated pattern like this, layers and layers... this was fun.

pretend wings by mare joy smith, on Flickr

 

It's a nice result

But pretty and fun. How lovely

Teddy

 

My guys are 30 & 32cm tall. The new mature tiny from Granado. I didn't make the quilted pieces, they were a gift. I'm making a winter photo story so they needed long sleeves and I saw these socks and boom, instant ideas popped into my head. tiny grommets I do have I got them from ISewForDoll on Etsy. Not sure if they will get chainmail or scalemail.
I hand basted all the cut pieces from the sock before sewing, so it wouldn't stretch out of shape. I will probably also use fraycheck on the sideseams as they will get the most abuse and can unravel.

 

I'm haven't got any further with my sewing yet, but I have got my sewing room back from the friend who was staying with us, so I hope to sew this weekend.

I've also got a bit of fabric sorting and tidying done - I pulled out my boxes, bags, and bundles of cotton fabricss or doll sewing, sorted them into bought plains, bouth patterns&prints, and old shirts (as many of you know I love to use mens old cotton shirts for dolls clothes), and folded them into a couple of fat-quarter storage bags (the bought fabrics - one for plain, one for patterns) and a plastic storage crate(the fabric gleaned form old shirts, mostly overn stripes and checks), with some overspill of larger pieces of plain fabrics into a small box. They're now neatly put away, much neater, easier to find and I managed to claw-back and entire crate worth of space by folding and sorting all the fabrics. I do have two further crates of shirts (with a few skirts, blouses, and children's dresses) that haven't yet been unpicked and cut up, but they're staying where they are for now. And I still need to sort through a couple of boxes of doll-scale silks.

But I have a sewing-tale of woe:

One things that was turned up by sorting the cotton fabrics, was another unfinished doll outfit. It's a Victorian skirt and peplumed-waistcoat I cut from a lovely second hand dark sage green shirt with a tiny woven check in white, dull gold, and dark red.

Unfortunately, the shirt had sun-faded badly, but I bought it anyway because I loved the fabric and thought that if I used the inside of the shirt as the outside of whatever I made from it, the sun fading would all be hidden inside and wouldn't show.

A couple of years ago, I cut out and started sewing the skirt and waistcoat during a weekend away at a friend's house, I got as far as sewing together the skirt and lining it, but not adding the waistband, nor cutting the linging for the waistcoat (ran out of the lining fabric).

When I came across it in a little ziplock bag among thec cotton fabrics, I was overjoyed to have found it again, and took it out to assess how much still needed doing to it...

... and noticed that the fading (though less obvious than on the outside) had affected the inside of the shirt too, and the lovely almost-finished skirt is a much paler shade on the front and back panels than it is on the side panels.

It might not be very obvious once the skirt is pleated to the waistband as the fading is sort of gradual. The colour fading the closer it gets to the centre front and centre back of the skirt, and darkening towards the sides.

But the waistcoat is cut from unfaded fabric, so the darker colour of the unfaded peplum will be hanging down over the faded parts of the skirt at the front and back, which might highlight the faded parts of the skirt by the obvious contrast of the colours.

Waaah!

I'm in a quandry now
- Do I scrap the outfit, even though the skirt only needs a waistband to be finished?
- Do I just finish the skirt and scrap the waistcoat?
- Do I finish both and use it as an old, faded, but much-loved outfit kept as something she wears at home and for messy activities?
- Do I finish both and have her wear them as seperates rather than as a suit, so the fading on th skirt wont be as obvious..?

I'm completely undecided.

It doesn't help that the doll it is intended for is the snarky, fashion-conscious, ultra-fastidious one in the family, who is quick to criticise any fault she perceives in other people's clothing.

Teddy

 

I've also been in de-clutter and organize mode lately (yay for neater sewing rooms!) so my first impulse at the moment is to say scrap it, there are always a million other projects to spend one's time on-- but I do know the feeling of unearthing a project you really, really loved that you lost track of before finishing, too.

I guess my line of thinking would be-- will you still enjoy the outfit if you use it as part of the character's story, where you dress her in it when she's doing something she wouldn't want to wear her good clothes for? Or will that uneven fading bug you every time you look at it? If you think it will bother you whenever you see it on your doll, I'd say scrap. If not, you might as well finish it and use it as her "all my other clothes are much too nice to ruin" outfit.

 

@Teddy
If it will bother you every time you look at it, welp, you know you must 'fix' it. As a long-time collector of bisque, I like to remember that fabric was much more hard to come by. Some 'fine' fabric would be re-used until it fell apart. Sometimes, less than perfect, is perfect. Can you use the skirt to fix the jacket and find a new companion fabric? Anyway, the doll will tell you what to do. - Ask her, hehe.

 

@Teddy
Finish it, then put tears and dirty it up. She was abducted and made a brave escape, doing in her abductees in the process.

Or....you could try dying the whole outfit and see if you can even it out.

 

@Teddy I'd say finish it -- considering the fact that it's almost done anyways -- and then decide whether you like the finished look on the doll or not. We've probably got different ways of looking at things, but if it were me, I think the itch to know what the finished outfit would have looked like would bother me more then the short-term disappointment in a not-quite-perfect garment. And who knows, like others have said, maybe you'll end up liking the "well worn, well loved" garment look

 

Phew, I vanished for a while to start in on another project while I had the time. Easy enough to find on this sub-forum.

In the meantime I decided that I don't want to settle for "good enough". I've re-cut the cardigan, turtleneck, and loose pants with some pattern adjustments, and I'm going to remake them. The other stuff can stay, it turned out better. I managed to save an old collared shirt, (thank you peroxide,) so I won't need to make one of those, but I'd love to still make a vest and blazer. I even found some lovely vintage patterns for those (since he's already got some 70s colors going on, might as well use time-appropriate patterns). Only problem is, I don't have any fabric suitable for lining. I have plenty of knits in all weights, I have crepe, I have cotton galore, furs (probably not going to use that), and a variety of shirting/sportswear fabrics. But no satin!

I'm leaning toward using a knit or a cotton. I have a cool idea...

Also, everyone's projects look awesome! @dailymare those wings are so cute! @Valdemagra I'm loving all those different textured pinks @thedarkeststar13 that dress is gorgeous! @SteamWitch wow! what a detailed outfit!

 

Not too bad for my first attempt at a lined vest, I think. I hope.



It'll have buttons on the outside and snaps underneath. Brown, probably? Anyway, here's the cool idea I had:



I originally wanted to use the creepy eye fabric I have, since that's slightly more on-theme with the doll's character, but it was expensive, and I didn't want to ruin it if knits didn't work out for this. I don't think I'll be using knits as a lining in the future, but I do like how this one turned out. And it's Halloween colors, so it can do double duty.

 

@BlackSheep Very cute! Love the lining. Excellent fit. That's a lovely shirt. Did you make it as well? That's the one you "saved" with peroxide? Wow.

 

And a lovely fabric too

Teddy

 

@Teddy can you add some kind of trim to hide it or make the gradient look interional? That way you could save all the work you did and finish the outfit.

 

It's certainly worth thinking about.

Currently I'm leaning toward finishing it, seeing how bad (or not?) it looks and deciding form there whehter to use them as seperates or together as a suit.

Today I fell down an online rabbit-hole and got no sewing done, however

Teddy

 

This is indeed the shirt I saved with peroxide! I didn't sew it originally, but I've patched it a couple times over the years. I've had it since I bought my first doll in 2013, and it had turned yellow with age. One ten-minute peroxide soak and a trip through the washer (safe inside a bra bag) later, and it's like new!

@PoeticSoul @Teddy Thank you!

 

Made some adjustments to the vest so now I'm satisfied with it. Also remade the turtleneck and cardigan. I cut two more items for this month, and then I think I'm done with this huge whirlwind of sewing.

 

@BlackSheep: Nice!
I can't believe I still haven't found my fabric stash for Vanye. I thought I knew exactly where it was, but...nooooo. So...more wigs. I found this little stash of fur scraps in my footstool that was supposed to be made into Pookii wigs. It takes so little...So, the Poobanator got another one:

would welcome thoughts on how much shorter to make the 'hawk. This is my first stab at making one. I used the same "pattern" as the others, but the seam going right down the center of the 'hawk tends to separate it, so I think next one, I'll try offsetting the crown seam so the hawk is all on one side.

 

@Vindalootoo I don't know, I kind of like it huge as-is, haha. Maybe half that height would be more in scale?

As for me, I am finally done!

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The sweater and remade pants wraps up my wardrobe project, which is all on display here. Two pairs of pants, a turtleneck, a cardigan/wrap, a vest, a sweater, a pair of socks, and a t-shirt (the white shirt I did not make). Phew. I have no idea where the energy to do that came from. I had wanted to do a blazer as well, but I think that's outside my skill level still. Someday! For now I'll look for a neat one to buy.

Now I get to sit back and watch everyone else's awesome stuff come together!

 

Heh heh heh...thanks! you should have seen it before I began to trim it! What the heck...I shall make more!!!!!!!! This was my first try and I made a few too-deep cuts on the fuzz and bits of the fabric weave shows in places. This is...Pookii has informed me...UNACCEPTABLE!

@PoeticSoul, don't know if I've ever said anything, but that image in your sig is positively magical. I love your flower children.

@BlackSheep, well done! Congrats. I hope he is duly appreciative!

 

Ok, so I cut a lining for the waistcoat and sewed the garment together today.

I decided to bind the edges in a contrast (a friend suggested I use the red from one of the stripes in the chek pattern) fabric in the hopes it would provide a visual break between the unfaded waistcoat and faded skirt panels and prevent direct comparison showing up the fading more. I added a strip of the red near the hem of the skirt to help tie the two together and make the suit more like a cohesive whole.

The second edge of the red binding and trim is currently pinned in place waiting for me to hand-sew it down, and the back of the skirt still needs to be gathered to the waistband, but this is what it looks like at the moment.

A lovely mix-and-match wardrobe for him - well done!

Puki Mohawk looks so cute!!! Will you colour the tips a diufferent colour (or a few different colours)...?

It looks like a fine length to me as it is. Or pehaps you could cut it down by half at the front and graduate it out to the full length at the back...?

Teddy

 

@Teddy. OMG! from your description of the problem, I was expecting something quite different. I don't know how accurate the image is, but it looks to me like a very clever use of two different "versions" of the same basic fabric (and you're right: it's a gorgeous fabric). I suspect that striping, actually accentuates the difference, bringing out the red in both, which makes the difference in the faded and unfaded green greater, and making the whole thing just glow. I could look up the color theory I'm vaguely recalling from my graphic coloring days, but I think it's a brilliant solution.

Re: Pook's wig...I have indeed considered colored tips, and I really like the idea of the shorter in front. What I'd love beyond everything is to make him a Kenpachi (from Bleach) spiked wig complete with belled tips, but I don't think there's enough glue in the world to make the fur stiff enough.

 

Can you experiment with different glues on offcuts of fur, or something?

Teddy

 

I will, indeed! I think he'd make a hysterical Kenpachi. Altho Kenpachi's hair is actually holographic, as far as I can figure it. From the side, it looks like a spiked mohawk and from the front, it looks like Apollo's sun crown!

 

@BlackSheep what a cool little capsule wardrobe-- and here I was feeling super productive because I've completed two dresses this month
@Teddy I think the red trim is a really effective way to minimize the color difference-- I had to go out of my way to look for it. It's also just a nice design detail, fading aside.
@Vindalootoo Punk rock Puki = ! I definitely agree with the colored tips idea.

So I got the right shade of white floss to make the straps/tie and finish off the tie-dye sundress:

I'm happy with how that turned out, and now I'm working on finishing off the outfit I was working on in...I think it was March's sewing project thread? I was trying to replicate a Gucci dress for my Elfdoll Rita. I decided I really didn't like the way the bodice style looked on her, though, so I just turned the fabric into a skirt and made a separate top. I have one last detail to add to the top before that outfit's done too-- I just haven't taken pics of that one yet.

I'm on a sewing roll this month for once-- after I get that outfit finished, I have one more girl that doesn't have any clothes of her own yet and I've started patterning the dress I want to make for her. The fabric I ordered from Spoonflower for it just arrived, so that's what I'll be working on next...

 

It's on a gimbal and rotates with the viewer, perhaps?

Very effective.

Yay!

Good luck with getting Rita's skirt and top finished so you can move on to the next project

Teddy

 

Everyone’s is looking so good. I was visiting some family and dealing with some kitty drama, so it’s nice to be back and able to post again. So far my grand ambitions have only resulted in a pair of fluffy shorts. I did get the Bermuda fagoting done. Whoever invented that stuff was either a genius or insane. Probably both. From a distance it looks enough like insertion lace, especially since I used a slightly different thread color. Next time I’m digging out a hoop and a larger needle to get my tension right. I still need to do the bodice, hem, and then do the lace around the top. And the inseams- right now it’s pinned shut so I can hem. Plus corset, petticoat, corset cover.



Does anyone have a good way to sew gathering? I can get it spread evenly but the moment I try to run it through the machine, it bunches and moves around badly.

@Teddy I like the contrast border. Agreeing with the others- that looks like it’s on purpose
@Vindalootoo I love that mohawk
@BlackSheep The wardrobe looks great. I like the print you put inside the vest.
@thedarkeststar13 The dress looks gorgeous.The tie dye and lace is perfect for that style. I would totally wear that if it would fit me.

 

@Teddy HAHAHAHAHHA. love it.
@thedarkeststar13 that turned out sooooo pretty!

Well, Vanye's fabrics continue to elude me, but I'm getting the craftroom cleaned up. Meantime, I WILL get something done, so on to another backburner project. When we were at the Nebulas, Wiishu's friend gave him the cutest little purse to be turned into some kind of outfit. It was surprisingly close to fitting him. His arms would go through the sleeves, but it bound up when he tried to move. Also, it was too wide, so...taking out seams, clipping and pinning, we're working toward fit:


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I'll make something Asian-fantasy inspired. Who needs historical accuracy! I'll leave the sleeves open (wow...Wiishu with broad shoulders...) and put some kind of sleeve on the under...dress? Shirt? Depends on what I find downstairs today. Probably cut it off at hip length. Depends on how it falls over the undergarment. The "belt" is the purse strap. Amazing how much more work adapting a cute premade to a little body outfit is than making it in the first place!

 

Got the off white shirt cut out and sleeves in place, decided to work on the neckline before sewing the side seams. So much easier than the first one I made.

Dare's shirt by SteamWitch, on Flickr

 

Everyone's projects are looking amazing! For some reason every piece I've attempted this month has gone off the rails, but I'm hoping to make something worth photographing soon.

 

@BlackSheep
Whole wardrobe looks great! Nice fall colors and textures. I love those cute socks! If you've more of the stripe, pair it with the turtleneck, and you've the start of a new Bee costume for Halloween, hehe.
@Teddy
That is the perfect shade of red, not too orange. What color is the lining? Yes, that pop of color distracts the eye; I had to search for the fade, the alignment of lines at seams screams man-made in the best of ways. I can't wait to see it modeled!
@thedarkeststar13
You didn't use a pattern? Excellent use of inset lace! The drape and color are yummy sherbet colors! If I had the pleasure of wearing this dress, I'd have a big tropical drink in one hand while toasting the sunset on a tropical island!
@SteamWitch
So many well made items need careful pinning. I think this might display a partial answer to @Azure Agape 's question about sewing gathers, or easing; pin, pin, pin.
@Vindalootoo
That purple robe will be devine, look how the color matches his eyes. Now you just need matching purple tips on your cute mohawk wigs! Your friend has a great eye!

I'll get some pics done a least today. Sprained my ankle, just gimping about today. Grrrr.

 

But you've got started so that's good!

That's the problem I've always nhad with it so I take the REALLY long route and pin every gatgher into place before I run it throgh the machine:

Takes forever but gets them really even.

Neat idea! It's looking very good.

Hindsight is so wonderfully clear. I've appraoched many a second garment the "better" way I learned fm doing the first version...

Ugh! Bad luck!

Sometimes it just happens like that, and it's frustrating when it does.

The skirt is lined in green and the waistcoat in the same red as the binding and trim. I had a fat quarter sitting among my "plain" cottons,

Well, Poop! I hope you recover soon

I set the question of the faded suit aside and worked on another from the list of unfinished projects (for the same doll - she's one of the ones that inspires me to sew for her). This is another one cut form old shirts, whihc started out as a plain pinafore dress I made up to get pictures for a sleeveless-bodice turorial some years ago. The had enough of the shirt left to cut a jacket and ruffles, then married it up with a second shirt for some contast (it reads as grey but it's actually a very pale green that's close on colour to the fine-line-check pattern in the red fabric) and went for a bustle drape & apron style overskirt:


Today I unpicked the skirt from the sleeveless bodice, added some bust darts to the bodice for a closer fit, and repleted the skirt back on to the bodice, then added some fastenings and an internal tape (to pull the apron back inot the right place) to the overskirt, and sewed the last of the braid in place on the jacket body, before putting the whole suit on Nesta for a fitting - the jacket is just pinned closed up the front, as you can see (the buslte drape is arranged with pins as well).


So this one just needs the jacket fastenings up the front, and the tapes to hold the bustle drape inot a properly puffy shape, and it's done.

I might add a lace ruffle at the collar and each cuff to fake there being a full blouse underneath...,,

Teddy

 

Thank you @Valdemagra @Teddy. That’s probably it. I tend to not use a lot of pins, especially on those shorter seams.

 

Same here, but with gathering I can't get them even without making up for the lack of pins used everywhere else....

Teddy

 

@Azure Agape
My quickie cheat is to push a gentle tuck under the foot with my trusty old aluminum sewing and knitting guage. Go slow as ya like! Hehe *wink*

@Teddy
Woah! I'm stopping to stare. Love that box pleat origami treatment at the bottom of the skirt. And I too, would only use pins to achieve those perfect shoulder ham gathers.

 

@Valdemagra bee costume LMAO I do plan to make costumes next month, but we'll see about the bee.

@Teddy wow, that looks fantastic! it's lovely, and the color is beautiful

 

thanks for everybody's nice comments on my tie-dye dress

I finished the top for my Elfdoll Rita, so her outfit is done:

This turned out really different than the look I was originally going for, but the dress wasn't flattering on her-- the bodice style made her shoulders look weird and too small. So I scrapped the bodice, made the skirt part just a skirt, and made a separate black lace top instead. Now that's finally done...

so I'm working on a dress for my Dikadoll Aqua girl, Janet. She's my last nude doll-- everyone else has at least one outfit now. On the left is the dress I want to make for her, and on the right is the Spoonflower fabric I just got for it. I think it's a good match as far as the print size/shapes/style; the colors are a little different but I think they suit the retro vibe just as well and I actually like them better than the original.

I've started making the pattern; the Sadol Honey body that this girl is on has got a chest that's not only big but looks like she's wearing a permanent invisible push-up bra, so...this is going to be interesting (aka a pain in the ass) to fit.

 

@Teddy. So pretty. There's a part of me that wishes a feminine doll would speak to me, but so far my only females are Morgaine and (coming in) Anevai, and both of them are more into leather and/or armor and weapons. Sigh....And I'm really not one to dress my guys in frilly dresses. I want to find some floaty-stuff to make some of those floaty Asian fantasy outfits, but those are just...different.

@thedarkeststar13. That's pretty! Lucky girls!

 

The best solution I've found to the problem with gathers is TWO not one row of gathering stitches. I use stitch length 6 on my machine and sew the two rows about a centimetre apart. Some places recommend pulling up with the bobbin thread rather than the top one but I haven't found that it makes much difference. It's really important to pull both threads at the same time to get really even gathers.
When you get the piece to the right length grab the top part by the gathering threads with one hand and the bottom skirt part with the other and give a really hard pull this seems to set the gathers well. When you attach the skirt to the bodice stitch between the two lines of sewing and the gathers shouldn't move at all. I always remove the lower row of stitching but I don't always bother with the top one that is inside the seem it depends what I'm making.
Sorry if this is a bit longwinded, I always find it easier to show people than to try to write it down but this should give you nice even gathers and is a lot quicker than pinning them all in.

 

Thanks - I'm a big fan of box pleats in all their variations... I probably over-use them in my sewing, but I don't care - I like them.

Thanks. The colour is mostly chance. The basic dress was originally a lot plainer and I picked the fabric (as dark enough to show white stitching) in a hurry for getting photos of the making process for a tutorial: The new girl (RML R-02/Volks SD10) who became Cressida

Stunning!

It looks great - especislly paired with those tights and shoes. I really like the way you echoed the diagonal check of the skirt with the pattern on the tights.

Perfect! the colourway is very evocative of the era too. My sister's livingroom was done in those colours, for a while

I would suggest hunting for one, but I know from experience that dolls I plan things for in advance seldom cooperate once I have them home. I wish you luck in getting a girl, at some point, who turns out to want a "prettier" style.

{nods} That's the way I was taught at school, but I just can't seem to get the knack of it. No matter what I do, the machine foot always pushes the gathers along ahead of it so I end up with bunches of tight gathers interspersed with areas of hardly any gathering. I gave up on it and came up with my long-winded method whichc is still quicker (for me) than going through multiple failed attempts of doing it the regular way (and I tend to default to pleats rather thn ghters as a result....{grin!} ). I do envy those that can do it that way, however.

Teddy

 

{nods} That's the way I was taught at school, but I just can't seem to get the knack of it. No matter what I do, the machine foot always pushes the gathers along ahead of it so I end up with bunches of tight gathers interspersed with areas of hardly any gathering. I gave up on it and came up with my long-winded method whichc is still quicker (for me) than going through multiple failed attempts of doing it the regular way (and I tend to default to pleats rather thn ghters as a result....{grin!} ). I do envy those that can do it that way, however.

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Hmmm........ a couple of things you could try it may be that your gathers are not tight enough the area between the threads should look like vertical lines close together. If you tie your gathering threads at each end when you have the length right it should stop things from moving when you sew. Also if you have a setting on your machine for heavy fabric it may help as the pressure on the foot will be less and may stop it from pushing the fabric. May be worth a try although I admire your patience pinning all those tiny pleats

 

Thanks. I'm not a patient person but I have more patience for my long-winded method than trying on and off for over 30 years of failing to get the regular one to work..

Teddy

 

Teddy, could you sun fade the jacket once it's finished? Maybe test a scrap of the fabric to see how much effort it would take to even up the fading?
Except that discussion was pages ago ... & Your red trim is a nice addition. ;}
It's exciting to see you getting some if these projects finished up.

 

Hello fantastic sewing people! Hopefully it's not too late to share an in progress project?

I have a Doll Leaves Lan who I'm making into Lady Amalthea from the movie version of the Last Unicorn. Not an entirely screen accurate version, as the only lavender fabric I had on hand is from a galaxy print sweater/jumper. So, Galaxy Amalthea.
The pattern is a mishmash of DGRequiem's Renaissance dress pattern pack for length and skirt shape and ModaVationDesigns's MiniFee Summer dress pattern for off the shoulder style with long sleeves.
all cut out by M Collier, on Flickr
First dress fitting by M Collier, on Flickr
putting the pieces together by M Collier, on Flickr
More photos in another post.

 

@Seafoam Shade oooooo....I love that fabric. Going to be so pretty.
More digging out of fabric in the basement (it's all been buried behind boxes of books) and I finally came up with something I really like with the little Top. I'm doing the sewing by hand so far. Stabilized the bodice, finished one sleeve, put in one hook/eye in the back (that's all I had in my upstairs stash this evening. Trying to decide what I want to do for the undergarment. Was thinking kimono style, but I don't like to bulk him up and not sure I want anything showing at the neck. I've also got a pretty celedon green fabric that I might make a second undergarment of pants and panels. Anyway, here's the fabric I found. It's got a pretty, subtle pattern along one edge, but it's too large for him. Sigh. So I'll be using the subtly variegated plain side.


All handstitching by braille (lousy lighting) so far as I sit watching TV in the evening, so don't look too closely. I'll break out the machine tomorrow and, provided it's functional, make him a little undergarment of some kind. Playing with the hem line. Not sure, yet, what will work over the top of an undergarment.

 

It's so hit-and-miss and more effort than I'm likely to end up putting into it - besides, with the trim in place that would likely fade too, which I wouldn't want.

The galaxy fabric makes for a nice variation.

It looks nice and rick - Just the right tone to accompany such a lovely outer garment. Good kuck with the machine!

Teddy

 

Thank you! And love your dark blue/purple shiny fabric and that gold trim! Lovely color contrasts. : )

Thank you! The ruffles and pleats on your projects look lovely! And the section with the fading really blends nicely with the other parts especially with that trim.

 

@PoeticSoul Thank you for hosting the sewing project threads. It's lovely fun to see what everyone is working on.

@thedarkeststar13 Your Rita's outfit looks really fun, as does that Mod print!

As promised, more photos!
dress shaped by M Collier, on Flickr

fitting 2 by M Collier, on Flickr

Need to make decisions about which color to do the lacing and exactly how to go about attaching it. The lacing in the movie stills is more ladder-laced than "X" laced. I am a bit worried that going through the fabric twice will make the fibers from the unprinted wrong side poke through. Also hoping that the lacing takes care of most of the gaping at the top.

 

Got the second one done, so I met the challenge before the month ran out - YAY! Now I'm closer to my photostory becoming a reality.
Finished undershirt by SteamWitch, on Flickr

 

Would putting elastic inside the hem around the top help snug it up so it doesn't gap...?

Unless you're going to work teeny tiny eyelets for the lacing to go through, I'd be tempted to make the dress fit like it should, and then fake the lacings by stitching ribbon or cord through the dress in the pattern of the lacing in the cartoon.

Excellent!

Teddy

 

Hey everybody! Hope to find you well!

Here's recent progress:
Finished the cape, overskirt, small ruff collar, 3 adorable butterfly hairpins for her mohair wig, a 2 sided 'balloon' hand prop, tiara not of my making (resized bracelet.)
Unfinished and happily in progress:
Puffy sleeved, lace trimmed chemise needs arms attached, gold trim 'V' neck trim with possible beading, Adorbs hat to be lined with matching pink 'lace'. (It's gathered seam binding.) Can't wait to show the back of the hat with some proper pictures, but I'm not quite there yet.
IMG_20210723_120732_hdr_kindlephoto-44637002 by Dawn Coulombe, on Flickr
Loving everyone's dolls and new outfits!
See ya soon!

 

AHHHHH, you ALL are so inspiring this round!! Keep it all coming!!

I am loooooving reviewing this thread after a long week at work - I'm feeling my inspiration and energy increase to maaaaybe fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinally get something sewn this weekend just from seeing all the fun creativity here.

BTW @thedarkeststar13 .. you mention being inspired by Gucci - would it be a correct interpretation that you are a high fashion fiend at some level? ... your top and skirt combo is something that I desperately want to scale up and wear literally right now. Where'd you find that lovely scaled plaid?