Wearables Sewing Wizard robes

So My doll Alexis has been in need of some new clothes for a good decade as I've only recently gotten him down from the shelf, and gotten back into BJD's myself relitavly recently. I knitted him some sweaters to keep him going and he looked adorable in them, but I really wanted something high fantasy, as I had an idea for a story and photostory to go with it.
My concept was some kind of robes, something with a simple base, but lots to play around with for variance, with an under robe with fancy sleaves, and an outer robe with no sleeves and open at the front. I also wanted to use my embroidery skills to bring some fancy uniqueness to it as well.
So first the under robe! I cut out two tunic pieces, basically as you would for a Tee shirt, then two circles for the upper sleeve for fullness, then I wanted something to put the embroidery on, so I did two long rectangles as long as the circumference of the circles and got to work with a simple rose vine and moth motif.

I was hoping not to have to do a lining for this garment, but, alas, the backing of it was a mess of embroidery thread, so I did for these panels. I then realised that my sewing machine is broken, so when it came to putting this piece together, we had to rely on hand stitching.

I was a little intimidated by this point at the idea of hand stitching the whole garment, but once I got going, I had it done in a day. These are not great pics as I've not had a chance to take him anywhere outside for the good lighting as the weather is currently horrible, but good pics will follow. As will the next layer of robe!

 

This is something I can probably do at some point yes!