When I bought this gorgeous collar a few months ago, I quickly realized I had nothing to wear it with. I’ve documented my attempt to rectify that issue here. I was not happy with this crease on the waist. So I unpicked it and made the waist ever so slightly less angular on this seam. …
I made it! My EL wire slanted design corset is done, so I owe you a write-up of how it went. To see how I ended up with the pattern, see part 1. Step 4: Assembling the sections I first put together each of the four horizontal sections Step 5: Stitching in the EL wire …
For a while now I’ve had a polystyrene dressfrom that was *roughly* my size. Let’s call her Suzy. She was good enough to prop up a piece of clothing I was working on but not quite good enough to check the fit or anything. I could (and probably at some point will) buy an adjustable …
When I learned pattern drafting (drawing ‘templates’ for cutting/sewing garments) I quickly realized that it was just an algorithm for drawing a shape. You take the measurements of the person it’s supposed to fit. Then using those and some rules of thumb that are based on common sense and (I suppose) centuries of experience with …
Ever since the Insect Wing corset I’ve been kind of obsessed with modifying a corset pattern to make a design out of different fabric sections. So this is round 2 of me making life harder for myself. Step 1: The Design After sketching a few ideas involving complicated patterns of stripes and weird angular edges …
Ever since I found out about wearable Arduinos like the Lilypad and Flora, I knew I had to make _something_. I went around the internet and saw tutorials for all kinds of blinky LED things like tiaras, cyborg style face jewelery, and light-up skirts. So after some brainstorming the idea is to make a motion-sensitive …
This is a project for a (fashion, not underwear) corset inspired by the weird pointy shapes you see on insect wings. I wanted to do different shapes in different fabrics, essentially throwing everything I know about corset pattern drafting out of the window. This gallery is a diary of the progress I made.
I was working on a sewing project yesterday (more on that in a later post) and halfway through I seem to have lost my thimble. Yeah, I have a real talent for losing things in my own house over lunch. After searching for a good half hour I gave up and decided to make a …