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!~

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Cosplay Time!

One of the many future projects added to my list 

Miki from Shugo Chara

This is for a friend I met a few years ago at MTAC

I believe it was 2009

She found me on youtube and our friendship started from there

I'm really excited to be making this for her

I don't make a whole lot of cosplay

Just cause I only go to one con every year (thats all I really have time for)

But this is even better cause I'm getting paid

$.$

But that's not the soul reason to be doing this

This is like my own personal challenge

To make a custom costume for a person that is not myself

What I plan to do is 

-Make or alter patterns

-Produce mock ups

-Set up arrangements/meetings

-Alter again, if needed

-Make again in the real materials needed

-Do anther meeting

-Alter garments if needed

-FINISH IT BEFORE . . . the 20th?

OH GOD I HOPE I CAN FINISH BEFORE THE REALLY BIG PROJECTS GET STARTED!

But thank the LORD that this is a really simple project for me

Just look at it!

It's just a button up shirt, a black vest, and a pair of dark blue knickers!

I have patterns for all of that!! (well I'm custom making the vest)

I think I can do it! 

THIS IS A CHALLENGE AFTER ALL!

XD

Someone pray for me

':<

. . .

Gah I hate that show

Shugo Chara

Thanks for reading

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

Steampunk Plans for MTAC 2012: Dress Done

I am happy to announce that the Victorian dress has been completed!

In only 1 1/2 days!

This turned out great!

Pictures can only describe the greatness of this result

This picture features two bustles in the front

One way to wear this dress

More views/ close ups

A few other options I could do is

- One bustle on the side (left or right)

- Four bustles in the front and sides

- Or all bustles combined

There is a nice little train in the back as well

It is more defiant if there are bustles in the front

Lace trim

Lace is over 100 years old

Very antique

Scalloped trim on lace

Has a green zipper

about 6 or 8 inches

Two silver clips hand sewn on to waist band

This has no lining

Wish I could have put some in but I wasn't sure how to deal with that due to the bustles 

So I just didn't add any

:(

Perfect addition to a Steampunk atire

Corset will be done later in the next year

2012

Cause theres only 5 minuets till that year

My mision is to find a big brown soft leather jacket from Goodwill and use that for my corset

I have yet to find the perfect jacket

It will take some time

Thanks for reading and have a great new year

Hurrah!

or...

Huzzah!

:D

o^._.^o

Meow

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~