quelque chose pour moi-même

if the srrx hoodie that i made in jan was motivated by greed, this one was motivated 👍 also by greed 👍 90% of these projects are motivated by greed 

and tbh i had nothing else i wanted to make!! had the idea of a mini ver of this outfit at the very start of the year when i was overseas and i figured if i had anything else i wanted to make by june i wld go w that.. turns out that i didn't... 

so a smaller project this time it was ^^ this only took 2 days of sewing. in total, i made 4 pieces! a pink turtleneck, black pants, a black vest and the jacket //tbh 2 days was all i had, anyway 😓

^ much more diverse in terms of fabric than my other projects, as you can see!! fabric tangent incoming: 

at the very least i wanted the same materiality in the mini jacket as the irl one, so the sleeves were faux leather (far left) + the breast panels/detailing were the black/pink fuzzy fabric 2nd and 3rd to the right. tbh the ribbon was the hardest thing to source! in the end i literally saved an image of a plain roll of pink ribbon, drew black stripes on it, ran it through tb image search and crossed my fingers. good thing something came up!!!! my alternative was buying plain pink ribbon and embroidering stripes on it which wldve taken. forever probably. and also wldve looked messy as hell

the black/pink fuzzy fabrics were leftovers from my biaobiao bag last year!! but they weren't really pants/sweater material so i decided to get a pair of socks for the turtleneck and a handkerchief for the pants. good thing my 小姑娘 is small so there was no need to worry abt buying large pieces of fabric.. altho now when i see cute socks i face the dilemma of should i be keeping these for myself.. or making keke clothes 🤔🤔

speaking of socks, they were actually thicker than i expected!! which was fine in the end but that did add to a minor issue which i will talk abt later. the vest was part of an actual turtleneck whose sleeves i cut off earlier this year bc #sleevelessturtlenecksaremypassion. slash heich jay it really was just a cheap turtleneck i liked better w/o sleeves 👍👍 actually, i thought this would be the hardest fabric to work with?? little did i know 

4. fabric tangent over!! ok first i made templates. and i rlly do mean 'made templates' bc everything other than the pants i either modified from ones i already had or made from scratch myself!! for instance one of my 小姑娘's outfits already has a green vest, so i traced that onto paper + cut it out + did markings and modifications after putting keke in it hahaha //the jacket was the modified top half of this jumper design ^^ except that the front and back were one piece of fabric rather than separate panels 

5. remember how i said that i thought the vest fabric would be the hardest to work with. that was wrong. the actual hardest fabric to work was the turtleneck/socks 😑 and my measurements ended up being off the first time around so i had to redo it entirely. as you may be able to see in p1/p2 i folded my turtleneck template a LOT smaller hahah but it fits rlly well now!! and i'm super super happy w how the collar folds over like an actual turtleneck 

6. afterwards, i made the (?) vest i think. irl, this is a cardigan! but i decided to forgo the sleeves because of the issue i mentioned before which i will leave for the very end of this post where it is most pertinent 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ i thought this thing was going to be harder than it ended up being because i thought it would be hard to hem the fabric and this thing is 95% hemming, but it ended being no problem at all!! i just made a copy of my template, folded the fabric around it + hemmed it + tore the paper out when i was done. 

7. the pants were also super simple however i had absolutely no idea what i was doing. templates and tut were from @/杨咩咩 on xhs ^^ it relies the very last fold to form a coherent pants shape but bc i cld not visualise this i ended up hemming at least 2 areas that ended up being folded into the pants HAHAHA

obligatory show commentary time!! during this project i finished 歌手2020. as u may know this was my first time watching it all the way thru bc normally the turkey makes me ragequit 

OHHHH MY GOD

FUCK 歌手20

ohhhmygod. awful television. 真服了😭😭

firstly the music was soo unremarkable.. ofc there were some very impressive performances (misia ily) but overall after watching all 12 episodes i just cannot really pick out any non-zs performance i Really really liked 

i have downloaded more non-zs songs from zs' first 这！就是原创 ep than i have from all 12 歌手20 eps. thats so awful. mangou do better

i mean there were some nice hxy performances?? and i liked xjy's 半途而废 stage?? but come on

bored out of my skull

i thought misia was great!!! WHAT a powerhouse omfg.. and i also loveddd jike junyi!! singing Mad Man Killer with the guy who got homosexuality banned in china was so fucking funny my 女神 

and finally mao laoshi 💔 both zs and i needed you 💔 save us mao laoshi 💔💔 because now i must address the turkey in the room 

OH MY GOD

FUCK THAT GUY

FUCKKK THAT GUY 😭😭

OHHHMYGOD

i can't stand his voice. and i can't stand his face either that one song where he INSISTED that there only be one (1) one camera angle w no cuts or anything was pure torture omfg i dont WANT to look straight at your face for an entire 4 minutes 

JESSIE J 😭😭😭 JESSIE J I NEED YOU TO KILL THAT GUY

also bringing fucking li yuchun on as your duet partner was just not serious. be fucking for real with me rn. and xjt duetting w fucking JJ???? JAY??? JAY???? what the hell

speaking of that how the hell did xjt get into the top 4. and not zs btw. geshou is fucking fake

ALSO 😭😭WHY WAS SUPER VOCAL THERE

SUPER VOCAL LEAVE ME ALONE 😭😭😭 

i did like all the 这！就是原创 artists/refs tho!!!! leonardo decaprio pointing meme moment. 原创 celeb cast was great 🥰 even tho the songwriters were so much better there than on 歌手

especially 不透气的房间 :((( i don't want to repeat anything said in my may music repo bc this post is long enough but oh my god 歌手 why do you suck so much ass 😟

i have now started Offer3 and currently i like it less than Offer2 hahaah 双北 i miss you 🥲 yixuan ding hui qiuyi i miss you.. tbh i fell in love w offer2's cast/law firm setting and related activities w an immediacy and intensity that surprised me!! and i have yet to feel the same for the doctors hahaha but you know

it's better than 歌手

8. ok back to sewing talk haha this is a rather long post i'm afraid 😅 finally, the jacket!! this jacket was my 白月光

^ if you were not familiar!! 

i got my own last november (x) for shenzhen/the following holiday ^^ it's a very nice jacket (as expected of a 同款) and that means i Cannot wear it in the tropics (way too hot) but it is my favourite piece of clothing

9. the jacket itself was decently easy to make!! however. it is crazy detailed and i was committed to recreating as many of those details as possible, so that took a lot of time (it was completely hand-stitched!)

10. for instance, the cat paws were 2 sizes of pompoms that i cut in half and glued to clear sticky notes (bought them to annotate one of my lit texts last year but i've mainly been using them to make stuff like this haha), which i then coloured with highlighter and attached to the sleeves

11. finally, that issue i mentioned above! the thing abt having so many layers in one outfit is that the fabric becomes harder and harder to drape and control. that's why i made a vest instead of a cardigan which would've added yet another layer around his arms!! but the sweater is still quite thick + the leather sleeves of the jacket are ofc rather stiff, so in the end i sewed a piece of wire into some black fabric and then attached that to the collar so the entire jacket is easier to manipulate/drape/position ^^ hashtag #cheating

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The first panel has no borders and just features me in my office chair. Text above reads: 'I am terrible.' There are then four speech bubbles around me reading 'My backgrounds are terrible, my colors are terrible, my character designs are terrible, my storytelling is terrible.'