Purple Skirt Nearing Completion

The interfacing, now sewn together, tacked onto the skirt.

The interfacing sewn on and turned to the inside, after much ripping of stitches, clipping of excess fabric, and curses. See my crisp corners though!

The interfacing was then sewn to the outside of the skirt, at the level of where I wanted the hem, then trimmed.

And here is my hem turned in. Now I just have to sew along the edge (hem) and it's all done.

Yes She is Still Doing Art

My posts lately have been filled with fashion, but I'm pretty busy in the art department as well. This is a T-Shirt logo that I'm entering in the Not Back To School Camp contest. It took a lot of sketching and designing to get the look I wanted. I used inking pens, a brush-pen and a no. 2 brush to ink, switching as needed. Also used white ink to outline the word "School".

Scanning onto my computer was a nightmare. The paper was just a cm too tall for my scanner, and part of the picture would get cut off no matter what I did. I had to scan it twice, one with top cut off and one with the bottom cut off, and paste them together. For some reason (because my scanner hates me) the two images were slightly different sizes, and so they didn't line up quite right. (>o<)*

Somehow I managed to work it out and got this in one day before the deadline... ha ha ha. (._.)

Work on Skirt

I'm beginning with a close-up of the fabric I'm using, because I forgot to do that last time. It's a really silky cotton - it falls like water.


Here is the main body of the skirt, the sides sewn onto the back, with the ties attached. (It's a wrap-around skirt)


The interfacing being cut out.


Pinning the interfacing to the lining/waistband in preparation for sewing.

Purple Skirt

As you can see, I've cut out the pattern for another skirt. This one is a wrap-around, and as usual, I've had to edit the pattern to actually get it to fit. I'm not sure on what fictional characters the pattern company has based their sizing chart, but I sure don't think there are many real people who would fit the measurements.

I'm sure that another obstacle that I'm running into is that I prefer skirts that rest on the hip, rather than choke the waist, and those are pretty hard to find. (>_>);

Shirt Project complete!

Seen here on an old dressmaker's mannequin that was rescued from the trash. 

The neck was too tight to fit over my head, so I made a small "V" in the front. I first zig-zag stitched the shape with the sewing machine so that it wouldn't fray, and then went to work with the scissors.

The side. The dragon sort of wraps around. 

The back, with the zipper in place. Sewing something as unbending as a zipper onto something as slippery and stretchy as T-shirt material is something I wont be doing again in a hurry. But, it worked out fine in the end. 

You can also see that I cut the back of the sleeves, because they poked out in a weird way. Now there's ventilation.

3/4 view on the other side, just because. I'm actually amazed at how tailored the shirt looks, as what I did was essentially just one big huge dart in the back. 

(See shirt in progress here or just look below.)

Shirt Project

This is an old shirt that wears like a box. So I drew a design onto it, using a ratty old brush and a capful of full strength bleach. You can see the dragon design in the above pic.



To fix the way the shirt looks on me, I pulled back the material along my backbone and pinned it, the result of which you can see above.

Then I found a zipper on another old piece of clothing and used the seam ripper to remove it. (seam ripper is the two pronged yellow handled thing in the picture, and an extremely handy tool.) I'm going to attach the zipper to the back of my shirt along the pinned line, and have a nicely fitted T-shirt (hopefully).

Skirt- Finished!

Yeah I had it done a while ago but here are the pictures.

*edit* I forgot to mention that I ended up chopping about 3 inches off the waist, and then measuring and sewing on my own waistband pattern. This way, it rests comfortably on my hips, instead of being a weird, bulgy waist-height skirt. *edit*

The front, with two pockets. One for my pencils, and another for my eraser.

The back.

A closeup of the eraser pocket and zipper.

Yay, Progress

Did some work to the background on this picture. I used a different program, painter, to fill in the cobblestone and building details. Painter is designed to feel more like traditional drawing or painting, and it is my new-found joy. I found that it was way easier to do backgrounds with this program, which is cool because I usually hate doing backgrounds.

Tis a skirt

Lack of decent bandwidth does interfere somewhat with updating the blog. Anyway, this is my skirt. You can see here the pattern of my main fabric and all the little bits that I had to cut out. What you can't see is the obscene amount of care I put into cutting it all out. This is high stress stuff. >_>;

Spirit Bee

A logo I drew for the MMORPG that I'm working on with my dad. ^_^ I put it on a T-shirt and it looks great!

Speaking of T-shirts, I did a whole bunch of bleach designed shirts, which I'll try to take pictures of tomorrow and post them up here. I'm also sewing myself a skirt, and have some in-progress pics of that as well. Just to let people know I haven't been slacking off! >_>;

(Color pencils, acrylics. 2008)