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The fact of the matter is; I DID have my Halloween costume (i.e. my Stagecraft final project) fully completed by the time the occasion came around. I just never had a chance to photograph it until now!
[insert design sketches which I have misplaced]
I have unfortunately been inactive on this blog for a record of 2 weeks, and right now I should be studying for my last final. But I’m just here to post pictures, and a picture post is better than no post! =) I have a very large lineup of projects waiting to be written up. @__@
Outfit parts:
Bonnet
Corset
Skirts
and the shirt I planned to copy, but did not have time.
Question: why is the corset satin so scrunched/ruched?
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That was entirely not on purpose, but being my first corset it seems to be that I did not line up the outer fabric firmly enough with the lining. This has resulted in scrunching due to it not being taughtly sewn. I plan to redo the binding though which was very rushed in time for the holiday, so hopefully the problem will be mended. 
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Keep an eye out for a post on how I made the bonnet!
Corset – this took me ~ 13 hours to complete. See my post on making your own corset pattern very easily, which was the method I used =) I also tried to make it reversible:
Skirts – the overskirt was a very simple assembly of a few pieces. The muslin skirt with ruffling took approx. 3 yards of muslin to make it a very full circle skirt, and I used McCall’s pattern 8095 as the base.
Bow – a long piece of satin ♥
This technique works on both real people and dolls =) And it is super EASY!
This tutorial is shown on Senna, a doll with a Senior Delf body. You’ll need a partner to help you do it on yourself
Materials
- Spare t-shirt to be cut up (or for a doll, a piece of fabric)
- roll of duct tape
- sharpie/pen
- non-fabric scissors
Some lucky lady in Texas contracted a dress by me that I thought I could do in a short time span. Little did I know, I have seemingly overbooked my schedule and this has been kind of stressful! By staying up until 5 am I managed to finish it, but I still have many other things on my plate…. and the materials cost more than the profit. @___@ Time to do a price checkup!
I suppose I’m happy with it, but I feel like it isn’t quite finished. Ultimately it’s hard to process life when you’re tired.
I think karen had fun wearing it/modelling, though 
The idea was to make this a dress with many shades of pink so that it will match her pink car for some kind of car show event. Does this satisfactorily fit the “undead vampire bride yet still pretty” theme?? Feedback please? I feel like I’m too tired to look at it critically and figure out how to improve.
Next stop without stopping: stop motion!
Our Blueberry Pecans doll clothing shop, through all its advertisements for miniature clothing, has somehow amassed a handful of commissions already for life-size clothes! Although maybe this isn’t so surprising considering it is the October season. 
One of the first orders we’ve received in time for Halloween is to make life-size this dress from the Living Dead dolls brand. I’m not too familiar with these dolls except I’ve seen them in “alternative” stores as potential toys or desk-residing objects to fit your mood, I suppose.
Here’s the dress from the Jack and Jill set:
And here’s our replica! The girl happens to be about karen’s size. =)
Yes, complete with blood splatters (red dye)! And an uneven/ruined hem.
Creating new patterns from scratch is always exciting when you challenge yourself to do something you didn’t know you could! =)
Alas, my first real Visual Arts assignment has been completed and photographed: a project for the theme of Falling Apart.
It took me about 20 hours to make this dress from scratch – I first made the bodice with satiny fabric and cotton lining completed with boning, and added the iridescent trim swirls.
Then I constructed the many layers of the skirt: the overskirt, white cotton layer, tulle, stiff netting, and really stiff petticoat netting layers all over a very soft underskirt. I had to fully construct it before I deconstructed it. =)
To destroy it- I cut it up and burned some of it. I did 4 rounds of dyeing with green, brown, navy, and black so that the bottom layer is completely darkened. I sewed on extra pieces of dyed bits or brown jersey, even extra black tulle to give it fullness and ruin.
Lastly I cut and dyed some polyester gloves I bought, and added the coiled metal part as a piece of “picked up trash.”
And by the way, it’s for sale just in time for Halloween. ^___^
It would be really interesting to try to make this for a doll…
Finally renewed after all these months… =D check it out!
COMING SOON: the “kaka-fany” BJD clothing shop
