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!

 

 



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

Prom Dress 2011

So this week I haven't been doing much of any sewing at all,

which makes me really sad

But I will post this dress that I made at the beginning of the year.

Heres a prom dress I made for the Joann's Prom Contest

Front View

Back View

This is a ball gown corseted top dress with plastic boning and an overlay of red, black, and more black tulle with rime stones as a top layer

Now I'm really sad about this dress for many ill thought of mistakes...

This was one of the many first attempts of making a corset. What I did was that I bought a corset pattern, modified the waist line for a more dramatic curve, and sew an overload of tulle along with a satin under dress.

What I wanted out of the corset was a 2 or 3 inch back gap, a dramatic curve, and, heh make my boobs really pop out...

(But overall I wanted a very tight fit in all places of my torso)

But what happened was that the waist was more snug than tight and breathless, the bust was HUGE, and the hips were awkward and gross appearing

I wish that it would have turned out better cause it would have looked even better if I had just gotten all the measurements correct....

And I wasn't in the top 20 contestants for that contest....

sigh

I might sell this item

If interested or want to know any measurements for this dress,

please contact me through

Etsy.com (link in banner on top of this page)

Facebook.com (Kat's Hat Rack page)

GaiaOnline.com (JapanCandys)

Ebay.com (JapanCandys2010)

Youtube.com? (JapanCandys)