Some outfits...

Last year I was in need of outfits...and so I made some!

Behold my attempt at a cyber punk skirt - I was quite proud of it:

...and a steampunk masquerade ball outfit - while I was 6 month pregnant!

Time Flies....

Goodness has it really been that long since I last blogged?

Apparently I have been busy, no I have NOT been idle all this time, oh no. I have still been baking and sewing and...having a baby!

I have still been taking photo's of things I have been making so I shall try and retrospectively update all the lovely things I have been doing - most of the recipes are definitely worth sharing.

Anyway due to the fact that I now have said small child (7 weeks old now) and I'm not at work I expect to baking lots so I shall try and keep this updated from now on if nothing else it keeps all the good recipes in one handy place!

Belts and Vinyl and such like....

I managed to make the belt how I wanted! huzzah!


Next in the pipe line is an underbust harness of a simliar design.
Im quite proud of myself having never worked with vinyl before I think it came out really well. Sits nicely on the hips as well.
Quite boring having to use pegs to fold it all under (cant use pins - but pegs work fine) didnt take too long considering. - plus It didnt take up all that much material either.
1 metre of vinyl cost me about £9 but I only used a bit and considering how much it probably would have cost if i'd bought it - bargain.

I do also need to make a bag and a holster to clip onto it.

Underskirt woes...

Well I have adjusted the underskirt with much faffing, and decided at the last minute I wasnt going to add the ruffle at the bottom becuase I was fed up.

It looks pretty good actually, and gives good fluff.

After getting bored with ruffles I have gone on to play with fake leather in order to make me a 'steampunk' type belt, I am now bored of pegs instead! (instead of pins).

Just got a TON of inspiration from this site as well...looks like the ruffler foot will be coming out again!
http://www.fanchaos.com/fanplusfriend/c5/vol33/_MG_1887.jpg

Underskirt mk III...

The steampunk night was absolutely fabulous!
Looking forward to the next one in Febuary, have a ton of new outfit ideas :D

In other news I am attempting to make an underskirt again, my first attempt ended up with me giving up, my second attempt I managed a rather straggly looking thing and then I gave up again.

In the course of making the new steampunk outfit I bought a ruffler foot, which was a pain to get used to but made ruffles infinetly easier, with this in mind I thought, great I'll have another go. I managed a respectable 2 layer underskirt.

Proud of my creation and the added 'poof' it gave my skirt I went to Swingaroo Vintage dance night, only to be struck with intense petticoat envy! Those petticoats were much fluffier than mine, after spending a frankly disturbing amount of time looking at girls petticoats (I'm sure you can get arrested for that!) I deduced that I needed another layer at the bottom to make it fluffier. So I shall try to adjust the latest one and see how it looks.

In the mean time I've had to go get my sewing machine looked at - pretty sure plastic washers falling out of sewing machines isn't a good sign! fortunately the shop I go to seems to think its not to dire and tightened a few bits here and there to make it all fine. So Now I'm good to go for more ruffling...

Ta daaa....!

So I have spent an ENITRE week on this outfit, I have learnt many things, most of all how I am really bad at picking costumes I actually have the skill to make!

Also now I Have a top 3 sewing things I hate:
1. Button holes
2. Ruffles
3. Sleeves (with narrow hemming a close 4th)

I have also managed to completely mess up the front with bad button hole skills (and an over eager button hole ripper...yeah... :( ). Which is bad. Because its on the front. I am about to try and fix this by adding more cogs than I was going to. Cogs fix everything :D (hopefully)

And here are the pics, more to follow hopefully after the event on Wednesday for which it has been made!
Note: I only made the jacket and skirt - the corset was bought :)

Also apparently my special skill is to float in the air! (wishing I'd made the skirt a touch longer now!)

Green Taffeta...

Just bought me a lovely bit of green taffeta material for making a steam punk dress with *excited*

Update: Just found this tutorial: http://steamfashion.livejournal.com/791377.html
Definitely making that skirt. yep.