Over the holidays I decided that I needed another piece of costumey clothing, so I made this. When it was finished, thorough empirical testing showed that it works pretty well as a belt substitute for flowy dresses, though. So maybe it’s not so useless after all.

The thing is not perfect, and obviously my posture is terrible, but I quite like how it turned out.

It got a little tail (that looks a lot better in real life than it does on the pictures) and a tiny tulle ruffle. I also dyed some piping to go with the strange blue see-through stripes that are woven into the fabric.

And then I found out that there was some fabric in my stash that exactly matched the dyed piping. Of course I needed to make a quick summer dress out of it to go with the vest, and I’m planning to actually take pictures of it in the near future.

The fabric changes colours, depending on the angle it’s being viewed from, so sometimes it looks as if I mixed up the right and wrong sides of the fabric. Oh well …

An awful picture of the back

Now that I showed them some love (and that I haven’t forgotten them after all) my sewing machines are happy again. The end.