Dressmaking - Tumblr Posts
Making the burgundy dress.
Design, patterns and sewing made by me. The dress is renaissance inspired, with some personal modifications. The whole dress was hand sewn, including the hems. More pictures of it and a tutorial can be found on my blog.
I think this is how big my sewing box has to be to contain all my dressmaking stuff. Shame it will never fit in my flat :(
http://www.kikiworld.nl/collection/sewing-box-cabinet
Finally found the time to look back at my sewing and crafting. I made a couple of more things along the way but I forgot to take pictures.
Behold, what I've been doing for the past few weeks! I kind of burned myself out making new postcards for Thought Bubble (I'll post those later, for now there's a photo of them on the stand), so once they'd been sent to print I decided to do something entirely different. I transformed my computer desk into a sewing desk and set about making a dress from Josceline Fenton's lovely webcomic, Hemlock! It's the first one we see Lumi wearing. Eventually I'd like to make all of these four, but I think I've done enough dressmaking for the time being. There's also a picture of the finished dress! Also of me awkwardly standing with Josceline trying not to seem creepy, which is hard when you just spent three weeks slavishly recreating someone's work in cotton form. She said it was very accurate, which makes me happy.
There's the Inspired table, with Sammy behind it because we used my camera this time, my postcards, 5 issues of What's the Time, Mrs Woolf, my art cards hanging out with some new ones by Sammy and Shaz, a shot of my side of the table, complete with Patience, miniprints, Bad Fairy Bakery etc., and a portrait commission I did! If you look really closely in the back you can see a little drawing of Patience that Sammy gave me. It's so cute! I seemed to do pretty well at Thought Bubble, and we certainly did well as a table. I also bought about £80 of comics, and John Allison said some very nice things about our work, so I'm very pleased with how it went. There'll be a write-up of Thought Bubble on the Inspired blog soon as well, now that I've got round to sending the photos to Sammy.
Still trying to get on top of this journal backlog! It's because half the time I scan them all in one go when I fill up a notebook.
These include a dress I made based on Josceline Fenton's Hemlock comic, some stuff from around Christmas, and this one time when I was feeling like a dateless loser because I was watching As Told By Ginger, went on Facebook between episodes, and the only notification I had was that one of my friends had got engaged. Bad timing, universe!