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Hochdruck und winzigkleine Stiche. (Bücher, die man streicheln kann :D)
so little time …
Last week I worked on the steel bones (I even bought a crazy expensive shiny new bolt-cutter-thingy that makes cutting strange metal bits really enjoyable!)
Then I spent a few hours torturing my neigbours – in an attempt to get all those rivets to behave. A “tool” had to be built in order to beat them into submission (quite literally). Also, I hurt myself. There was blood.
I wonder if the corset will be finished by the 8th. I am almost done with the embellishments, but there are a few things I haven’t worked out yet.
And then there are the skirt and the petticoat … I haven’t even started thinking about them, but we’ll see …
sewing is peaceful and gentle …
… it also involves a lot of elbow grease. And swearing. And heat shrink tubing. And power tools. And fire. And maths.
bloomers
sewing
great outfit, no?
and a little bow :)
These are for a costume and will go under a petticoat/skirt. I’m also working on said skirt, the petticoat, and a corset right now. There will probably be some sort of ruff (and I would really like to make a jacket to go with the outfit, but that seems highly unlikely).
They are based on the Madeleine Bloomers, but I modified them quite a bit: I added height in the back, and also made the legs slightly longer.
The pattern is nice and I absolutely love that because of it a lot of people are sewing bloomers now. But I have to say that it does not really work for my body shape. Nothing that can’t be fixed with adding a bit of height though … I also noticed that the inseam-lenghts of the front and back pattern pieces are quite different, so be careful.
I was going for frilly and lots of lace, so instead of sewing a channel and buttonholes for the ribbon as the pattern suggests, I sewed on some sort of buttonhole tape (together with 3 other kinds of black and white lace and ribbon) and threaded white ribbon through it.
Jackalope
It’s the Stanford bunny! With antlers!
I got the basic pattern for the rabbit here.
I even made a tutorial for the antlers!
Erst habe ich das Geweih gebaut. Der Hase ist dann aus dickem Papier gefaltet, mit PU-Schaum gefüllt (in dem Schritt habe ich auch das Geweih eingebaut) und auf eine Holzplatte montiert. Anschließend habe ich den Hasenkopf mit einer Schicht zerknülltem Seidenpapier überzogen und alles weiß lackiert.
