Category Archives: Sewing
pins
Yesterday, I made pins. A few with tentacles on them, and this shiny one. Actually, the sewing machine pictured is the one that is standing next to my desk right now ;)
finished!
This is the latest costume I made … Excuse the horrible middle-of-the-night-nobody-feels-like-taking-pictures-pictures ;)
So … let’s see: I made the stripey invisible bloomers, the crinoline, the white skirt and collared shirt, the corset, most of the jewellery, and the whip.
I didn’t make the boots, the socks, and the white lace gloves. The gloves were found in some great grandmother’s attic, so that’s awesome as well.
art
Leftover paint
I made mould. Or maybe fungus. From fabric, stuffing and paint. Growing. Sprawling. Inhabiting space.
I quite like it, and how it’s coming out of the door frame, reaching out for the ceiling.
And if there should be any sun anytime soon, maybe I’ll even try to get some decent pictures.
Corset, looking completely different
The corset is finished! The whole costume is, actually. It was taken out on a fancy-dress ball and a lot of fun was had.
The corset is suprisingly comfortable, even though it still needs a bit more wear. Breaking in leather(ish) corsets takes quite a bit …
I wonder if some of those half-finished projects that are piling up are going to get finished, now that university is in full swing again. Lots of assignments make for lots of reading and writing. And that means lots of little creativity-breaks. I already finished some old projects, both the mould-installation and the corset being among them.
stripey corset
It has entered the bias-tape-stages now. Maybe it will even be finished at some point …
wrestling the monster
Or: Hemming 30 metres of tulle while trying not to inflict serious injury.
coronet
This was just a test to see if I could sew a crown-ish piece of accessoire without hand sewing.
I glued grey and the dark blue fabric together using lots of fusible interfacing – the resulting fabric was quite firm and had a bit of body to it, so it was perfect for this project. With a bit of patience (one might call it stubbornness) everything could be sewn with the sewing machine, there’s not a single stitch of handsewing in there!
There is wire enclosed in every seam, which was a pain to sew. But now the coronet has a stiff base with little loops for bobby pins and the tips are bendy, which is a nice touch.
It goes great with my shiny blue antlers and I really love the little golden dots on the pretty blue fabric, printed with some sort of metallic paint. The ornament is an old brooch that my grandmother gave me a few years ago because it’s pin was gone.
