Sketch and Skirt

I did this sketch while I was making the NBTSC T-Shirt logo. I'm currently in the process of inking it. I apologize for the crappy picture, I had to use my camera because my scanner hates me.
Blue hipster skirt done! Hoozah! Picture taken in my messy messy apt.

Wrap Skirt Progress and More Paintings

The sides all sewn together, and hooray, it fits!
Now cutting out the interfacing for the lining of the waistband.


Also: Two more paintings in the sketch phase. I've touched up the sketches and sealed in the graphite with gesso entirely on the top one, and about halfway on the second one.

Wrap Skirt Coming Along

Making darts for the new wrap skirt. First I pin, then I handstitch (baste) it in place.

Without the pins in the way, it's easy to sew the dart. 

Then I take out the basting and it's done. 

Now the ties... pinning them here. 

And here I'm sewing along the edge... I wont show turning it right-side out because it's really an annoying job. Let's just say that's done too. (>_>)

Blue Hipster and Purple Wrap

Basting the waist band down. I'm going to have to hand stitch the band in place because attempts with the sewing machine proved to be disastrous. 

Laying out all the shapes needed for another wrap skirt. Added an extra 2 inches to the back piece and 1 inch to both front flaps. (as well as added inches to the lining/waistband pieces)

Blue Hipster Skirt

Took the zipper out before cutting the waist off.

Cut the waist off.

Sewed the zipper opening closed temporarily so that it doesn't slip around while I'm working with it.

I lifted the top of the ribbon trim so that I can tuck the waistband hem under it then sew it back on.

The hem was tucked under the ribbon and I pinned it down. Next step will be to sew it down. Then I'll re-attach the zipper and I should be done!

The Purple Skirt is Done!

I did a slip stitch on the hem...


...and attached a snap button.


It is now done! It fits me perfectly. I don't think I have a better fitted skirt than this one. It falls nicely and I can wear it over pants no problem - it doesn't ride up the sides or get stuck to the fabric of the pants. Now that this one is done, my mom requested one in the same style for herself! So I'll be working on that and...



This skirt that I got at a thrift shop for 3 bucks.



It has a high waist, and I'm going to turn it into a hipster skirt. (one that sits on the hips instead of choking the waist). Here is the plan. I'll take off the zipper and set it aside for later. Then I'll cut off the first decorative ribbon trim that is serving as a waistband, to about 2cm above the second ribbon. I'll lift the ribbon and turn the fabric under, then sew the ribbon back on, making a new waistband. The second ribbon trim happens to be at the perfect level, so it should fit well by the time I'm done. That's what I'm hoping anyway. (>_>);

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.

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.

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. >_>;

Progress

Cut out all the circles and stuff! Oh and the rabbit is fully sewed down.