Dress making

Since the last time I updated about my endeavours in the land of homemade clothing, a lot has happened!
But let me just show you an old modification, which was my old winter coat.
I loved the design, but it wasn’t really made for a girl with the hips I have, so since I needed a short lolita jacket, I jumped into it and cut it up.

I really like how it turned out. It’s very, very cute, doesn’t really sit that close to the body and I always loved red. I’m not sure if I want to do something with the collar yet, but I’m always happy to get suggestions.

I realized that I really needed another black dress in my closet. I have the deer jsk, but it’s high waisted and in chiffon, and these days I’m completely in love with velvet. Also, I wanted something with a more classic, and detailed bust, so I did this design sketch.

And here is the finished result. Crappy phone shot XD As you can see it came pretty darn close. I only decided to drop the bow belt.
This dress is sooo easy to wear! And I loved how the details ended up. So much so, that I’ve decided to make it in at least one more colorway. But I’m sure I’ll need it in more colors. My local fabric pusher carries velvet in sax blue, a peachy sort of baby pink, lavender, brown etc. (they also stock hot Barbie pink, which I HAVE to use on some kind of dress, just not sure what design yet).

While shopping for the black velvet dress, I stumbled across this satin weaved curtain fabric with a black and white house print. I instantly thought of Emikyu, and I took a quick snap of it with my phone, so I could find it later.
I got a gift certificate for the fabric store for birthday present, so the house fabric was then mine!
I didn’t do a design sketch this time, but I knew I wanted it simple, and with focus on the print, so I made the bust with black velvet, and stitched on five bows in the same fabric at the neckline (this is, btw, my new favourite shape for necklines. It’s cute).

The finished result. I made the skirt a bit longer than I normally do, and it’s just the perfect length for me! I prefer the hem to reach to the knees. I just bought some black velvet ribbon that I plan to sew onto the dress just above the hem, just to pull in the velvet of the bust more. This dress, like the black dress, is fully lined.

I also bought lavender colored fabric as well as blue velvet and a navy blue fabric printed with ropes, keys and locks, but these haven’t been made into dresses yet, so you’ll have to wait.

I’ve also taken up making jewellery again. Here’s some of what I’ve made so far. I've something like three necklaces more, since this was taken XD

Other than that I made a bonnet!! But you can see that in the next post, which is about the convention I attended last week!