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

New Lolita Skirt: Elegant Roses

Latest project!

Roses are Pink Elegant Lolita Three Tiered Front Panel Dress

This dress was a challenge for me

I'm not so proud of the result, but I learned to like it

It's pretty nice when you add all the petty coats underneath (right photo),

but by itself (left photo) its ok

This is a specific design I came up with myself (assuming that this wasn't thought up from a big time lolita designer first)

This is another one of my half elastic half flat waist band skirts

The a front panel has three tiers with lace covering the seems

The sides also have a twill tape (I forgot what its real name is) on the side seems to add a little more elegant detail

And there is also 4 inch long ruffles and white lining

Here are my notes on this skirt if you are interested in the process and thought pattern

Please check out my etsy shop if interested in this dress

http://www.etsy.com/listing/89237205/roses-are-pink-elegant-lolita-three

 

:D