4 posts tagged “sewing”
This is why we can't live together, Jared. I HAVE A PROBLEM.
That would be my workshop-turned-storage-shed. All of that fabric in the back is all stuff that I bought that I might use for something. I'd see a good price on nice black fabric (I use a lot of black), so I buy a couple yards. Or I'll see some kind of cute print and I'll have to buy a couple yards. Just in case I want to make something out of it.
I'm horrible. I don't even have a place to sit in there because I turned the table into a stand for my dressform.
Now that we're all disgusted with my house keeping skills, here's some things I've been doing with my free time (besides playing 360 games).
I hate sculpting. Mainly because I have short, fat fingers. But I hate it. HAAATTE. So instead of making a bazillion tiny pieces out of Scuply, I opted to go the casting route since this way I'd only be molding one thing from clay.
Uh. I forgot to straighten it out before taking a picture. Hahaha. Anyway, the hoops are in the slip and I'm in the process of gathering and tacking tule to it to keep the hoops from poking out of the dress.
. . . Totally not going to be able to fit through doors.
When it comes to costuming, I like to explore different ways to make things. This stems from being entirely self taught with this sort of thing. One day I went over to my grandmother's, sat down at the machine, and said "Teach me how to work this thing." Then it was all downhill from there.
I don't want to say that I'm "cheap," but really, I am. Or rather, I like saying that I'm "thrifty."
Now, I'm working on making a giant Elizabethan-esque dress and I find that I am either going to need about 100 yards of tulle or I'm going to have to make a hoop skirt. One thing you'll find out about me is that I'm extremely impatient. If I decide that I'm going to do something I want the materials right then and there. So ordering specialty hoops is out of the question - not to mention expensive.
So I do the next best thing and take a trip down to the local hardware store to look for something that will be sturdy but flexible enough to make nice circles.
What I find is plastic "Corner Guards." These are the things that you stick in the corners of a room. So I cut them in half and the work perfectly. You can see to the left over there the shape that my skirt is going to take. That's just the skeleton and it'll only look like that long enough for me to make a skirt to stitch the plastic into.
But I am feeling confident that it's going to rock.
The best part?
This whole skirt is only going to cost $15.
Sweeeeeeeet.
So.. I got some roses embroidered for the collar.
... Three down, thirteen to go. And that is just on the collar.
... Did I also mention that I'm doing this all by hand?
WHAT WAS I THINKING?
All insanity aside, I spent my Saturday dressed as a boy, eating cookies, and entertaining women.
I feel like such a cheater.
... And I call myself a seamstress.
Ahh.. well, the honeymoon is over and it's back to sewing, sewing, and more sewing.
Tefflon foot, where have you been all my life?
No, I'm serious. Why didn't anyone tell me about how fucking awesome these things are? Theres a sewing and vacuum machine repair shop going out of business here in town and I thought I'd mosey on down and see what's 75% off (I'm a cheap bastard). And while I knew that the foot existed, I didn't know just how well it'd work. I had been using the baby powder or tissue paper method before and... I really would not reccomend it to anyone. But I kept on using it because I thought that the foot wouldn't be worth it and I was doing fine with the baby powder (I'm a cheap bastard).
Best $8 I ever spent.
You see.. I'm making a Milk (Pop'n Music) outfit and I got this idea in my head that I had to make it from PVC vinyl and sparkly pink vinyl.
...Shut up. Pink needs to sparkle. It just does.
Anyway, I'm making this costume and it's making me want to bash my head against a wall until I don't know what the word "vinyl" means anymore. But as soon and I tried the tefflon foot and started sewing everything went so smoothly.
So now I feel like a total jackass for being a cheap skate.
Someday I'll work up to getting an embroidery machine. Baby steps.
