Portfolio Submition: Review for Yourself!

Hey guys!

 

It has been quite a while since I have been posting updates.

 

I am sorry for that! I have just been working hard on starting college as a freshman.

 I have been doing more than just sewing in the past few months. I now have to draw, paint, and create works of art on picture plains, instead of human bodies. I will have to post my past semester's work!

I have so much to show you!

:D

 

But for now, I am posting a quick review of my past works that are within this portfolio. I had to submit this for a different college (not the one I am in today) for a scholarship.

I got $26,000 worth of scholarship from this school, but it wasn't enough to attend to, sadly.

But my other school offered me much more.

I just had to take that!

:3

 

Anyway, here ya go and I hope you enjoy.

 

Photo by Kat

 

Photo by Kat

 

 

 

Photo by Kat

 

 

Photo by Kat

 

Photo by Kat

Photo by Kat

 

 

I am truly sorry for not making any posts on my blog. I will make sure to keep updating this for now on!

:3

 

Happy Holidays!

 

 



Very Red Lolita Dress

Latest Project!

I was SOOO bored the other day I just wanted to create something! I also wanted to keep working on my lolita dresses. Here is the latest, ready and made!

The back view turned out pretty well. It looks nicer than I expected.

This dress has a button closure and a 10 inch zipper.

What's pretty awesome about this dress is that I made pin tucks on the hem! I think I did a great job for a beginner on pin tucks!

Here are my notes about this dress. 

I did leave out the long ties out of the dress. . . 

View the Etsy listing here!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/102016530/very-red-pleated-lolita-dress-with-very

Thanks for reading!
Nyan!

WOW ITS BEEN A WHILE!

Well. . . hello there. . . how ya been?

Ok . . . FFFFF

I am so sorry that I have not been able to post here in the past

. . . .

four months?

I had to finish high school, and, I AM NOW DONE!!!

:DDDD

I am now a high school grad!

HURRRRRAH!

But yes, now that I am done with this silly high school mess, I can get back into the swing of things and finally sew 24/7! Like I used to. . .

But lets recap on what the hell happened in the past few months:

- Lots of f'en homework
- My love with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

- MTAC! HURRAH! ANIME CON! That includes raves, Japanese foods, making new friends, and wishing I had a booth to sell my stuff at. . . (sniff). But there's always next year.
Here's my Steampunk outfit (that I had to improvise on) from the first day of the con)

-Hanging with friends

-Other raves

-Prom (and indeed I made my prom dress)

It took almost two months to make. It would have been sooner if I didnt have school in the way.  BLEHH

 - My birthday party!

- A new and very loving partner (thats whos in the prom photo with me :3)

- Seinor stuff and privilages that were wonderful and rememberable!

-School trip to Washington, D.C. (you can read about that on my friends blog right here

http://blacktiesphotos.blogspot.com/2012/05/washington-dc-part-one.html)

- And of course graduation!

There was so much that went on I can't even recall absolutely everything.

Although, in between my free time, I have made a few things. . .

Like a fluttershy hat!

https://www.etsy.com/transaction/82579054

I've sold two so far!

And I do have some news to share.

Ok, so I have chosen my college to attend to, finally. It was a very hard choice (out of all 2 options.)
Now for the next topic of interest: to earn an artistic scholarship from this college, I have to design a fashion line. This line will depend how much scholarship I will earn for the next four years of attending this school
*gulp*

I have completed my designs, made my patterns, and sewed everything up! They are all ready for my appointment on Monday.
But I really don't have much confidence in it, at all. Cause I feel that my work was very sloppy, but maybe the head of the fashion department wont care cause I never took any proper sewing classes. . .

Gah I don't know!!!!

Anyways, I will post those photos as soon as I can. 

Again I am sorry for this masive delay on information. I am ready and able to blog again though!

And I will be very vigalent in my work and updates!

Thanks for sticking with me, and thanks for all the new viewers I apparently have now.

I have views from over 10 different countries! Thanks a lot guys!

Keep up the craftin' and sewin'

~!Nyan!~

=o^._.^o=

The Shiny Corset

Here is a corset I finished last week, before I started on the Steampunk Victorian dress

A Shiny Red Corset with Steel Boning and Busk

It's sort of a little waist clincher

The material I used for this is kind of a plastic

The fabric itself was almost like a sheet of just red plastic

I would show you the back to show the ribbon ties,

but then I would be making you through up

Other words, it's really gross to look at

;^^; ;

This has a four clasp steel busk and 16 steel rods/boning

This has a 2"-4" back gap and, in this photo, gives me a 24"or 22" (I'm not completely sure) waist line

This is a huge accomplishment to me, cause my waist line (which I will not reveal) is...well...not very tiny like 24" or 22"

Now I have a nice little corset training...corset!

Or even a nice raving/ clubbing garment

Although, I do need advice for some issues

Such as when I start to loose circulation in my right leg

^^;

Heres a better picture of the curve of the waist with a white background

Now I would like to share some interesting construction info that I did

You might have noticed that there is not bias tape

That's because I used a different method of corset construction

A method that most people don't do for corsets using steel boning

What I did instead was first add the busk,

Then I sewed the top hem (under bust) and bottom hem (hip) together

Leaving the horizontal back seem open

Then turned the whole thing inside out

And what a job that was

After many minuets of poking and clipping corners,

I added the bones

Now how I did that was that I left the sandwich channels, at the bottom hem (hip) open,

To allow myself to simply slip the bones right in their appropriate spaces

Then I toped stitched everything, including the back seem together

Then finished off the corset with adding 5 eyelets to each side of the back

This was a pretty good result

I was expecting a frustrating mess

or just a sewing disaster

But it isn't!

:D

o^._.^o

Next Project: Steampunk

Really exciting news

The next sewing project will be to completed a heavily planned Steampunk outfit for 2012's MTAC (local anime con)

The theme for this years con is "Omega" or the end of the world

And for one of the days, I will be a Murderess Steampunk

:D 

Happy thoughts!

So heres a sketch of what I have in mind

It's looking kinda plain right now with just a corset and a skirt,

but once I can achieve the major elements, the little details will soon make this whole ensemble completely awesome!

So the bustle is a single layer with no ruffles, but antique 100+ year old lace along the hem

Don't ask me how I ended up with lace like that

It is at least 3 or 4 inches wide

The dress itself will be a forest green

Something to really compliment the color of the lace

The corset I am hoping will be brown and made of leather

My concern with this is that will my sewing machine work with real leather?

I mean I will use fax leather if I have too

I once used pleather (I think thats what it was): or something similar to leather

and that worked

I just had to place paper on its right to get the dog foot moving

But otherwise that worked

I'm kinda hoping for a miracle.

There will be a belt along with this as well! I'm really excited to make this!

There will be a compartment for the following

-Phone

-Money/Important Cards

-Pocket Watch (with a little window to show off the gears)

-Belt loops to clips things onto

- More loops for fake or real weapons

And I can save a place for my broken and pathetic fox tail

My pets tore it up so it looks more like a deformed bunny tail

T^T

But overall I'm really glad that I'm going to do this project!

My only worry about after the project is that how in the hell will I wash this skirt with such delicate lace?!

The thought scares me to be honest

I'm sure that this will all be worth it when I wear this to MTAC or the annual Renaissance Fairs or just any other occasion appropriate for steampunkness!

o^._.^o

~ !Nyan! ~

Lolita Dresses: Large and Pink

Well, it's been a long few weeks

I FINALLY had the time to do SOMETHING now that I'm on my winter break and got all the exams done

I finally got to finish a small project to test out a new pattern I learned how to make recently

And the results were AMAZING!

I learned how to make a "flared skirt" pattern

Its almost like a circle skirt but its made of 4 or 5 different sections (not 1 or 2 like a circle skirt)

I made this skirt with some eyelet lace and long white ruffles

This skirt took me at least 6 hours to complete, maybe more than 6

The ruffles were hand crafted

This skirt is on the etsy shop!

Click on the above banner to lead you the the shop!

Lolia JSK Pattern Tutorial?

So I've been searching for a way to make my own pattern for a JSK Lolita dress

and I think I finally found my solution...

Although it is not very specific, and in Spanish

 it's better than nothing right?

I will try to translate this by Google Translate

or by asking my Spanish Teacher to translate for me

UPDATE 12.6.11

This is apparently in French

*face palm*

Once that is done, I can make a pattern of my own from this little tip

And once I do that and make a dress of my own, I will share to you all my findings!

:D

THERE IS HOPE FOR ANYONE WITH MY PROBLEM!

o^._.^o

~Nyan~

Lolita Skirt: Heavenly

Here is the latest of off the sewing machine

A Heavenly White Lolita Skirt 

Half Flat/Elastic Waist Band

Made from bedsheets, clean of course, inspired by the pattern on the fabric (see very last picture)

This skirt was made for someone who REALLY loves huge skirts, this width is 134 inches!

Fabric is slightly heavy, but its no problem for someone using a couple of good and puffy petty coats. Model is wearing a single medium petty coat.

Features include:

Linning

Ruffles

A back view

3 rows of elastic for a tight and comfy fit :D

Measurements: 

Waist Band Details

Size: 26-30 inches 

16 inches Flat

10 inches Elastic

3 1/2 Length 

Dress Details

Total Length: 20 inches

Ruffle Length: 4 inches

Now on the Etsy Shop!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/87049626/heavenly-white-lolita-skirt-with-ruffles?ref=af_shop_favitem

o^._.^o

Nyan with ya soon!

The Begining

I would like to start off this blog by explaining how everything started...

I guess it all started with a crazy idea that me and another friend of mine had. The idea was to create products to sell at the local Anime Convention named "MTAC." It was one of those thoughts that was a good idea at the time, but we never really were devoted and gave a serious effort to start.

But there I was...just thinking...hhmmm...making money eh?

While my other friend had no sewing experience, and me with...some experience, I started to invest in felts, threads, a sewing machine (well conveniently enough, there was a Singer machine sitting around the house, go figure) and all those other important supplies to start a small hat business. This was my freshman year of high school, and ever since then I haven't been able to stop sewing and creating random items to share to the world. 

:D

Things just progressed from there, I eventually started to make a SHIT ton of money with the silly/crazy Otaku anime hats, I also, at the time, wanted to become a professional actor.

In fact, I wanted to be a voice actor, just to be in animes and work for FUNimation. I wanted to  meet those voice actors, such as...

Todd Haberkorn 

Luci Christian

Aaron Dismuke (drooool)

and of corse, who can we forget...the amazing, Vic Mignogna 

^      ^

o*_*o

MEOW!

Back then, I really didn't know where I wanted to go in life.

Which path to walk upon, 

standing at a crossroad 

Endlessly staring at the street signs

Deciding to go left, right, straight

or backward, from once I came from....

It was hard back then, but then something happened, something that really made me change my mind: a Christmas gift from my dad, lessons for what he thought were for voice acting

NOPE! (Chuck Testa)

They were for theater projection...voice....lessons

as in...making your voice stronger from an on stage performance 

had NOTHING to do with character voice acting 

:/

It was a six or eight week lesson, meeting on tuesdays, or something, at the local collage theater building, because he apparently works for some collage theater class.

His lessons where SO ANNOYING!!! 

I didn't enjoy anything about those damn classes! The breathing excursuses were down right uncomfortable!!

I mean, I understand the reasons behind those stretches, but the things he made me do, I mean jezz, he might as well of just made me go doggy style in the middle of the theater, or some other weird sex position...

-__-*

By the end of the lessons, he really made me feel like SHIT!! 

I was suppose to memorize this monolog from Romeo and Juliet, which was incredibly difficult for me. Whenever I tried to preform it to him, he would just shake his head in disgust, and say

"wow...look at how far we have come, and YOU can't even get this down right.

I would HATE to leave you like this, unaccomplished and disappointed"

Total "Son, I am disappoint" moment...

It was his lessons that made me feel terrible as an actor. 

Thats when I change my direction from acting to fashion design, because THAT was going well WAY BETTER than whatever I was doing with my acting stuff

NOW, I have an ok little business on Etsy.com

http://www.etsy.com/people/JapanCandys?ref=si_pr

^ Linkie Linkie!! ^

I also have progressed since then. I am now learning and making Lolita skirts, steampunk attire, goth attire, punk, JUST EVERYTHING!

I guess this blog will represent the little details of the things I make, maybe each item will feature a story as to how I came to make these items

I don't know

But I hope that people will read this, share, and find the shop through this blog

Well, I guess thats all I really think I can say about this...

Enjoy

o^._.^o

NYAN ~NYAN