Sharing my Caine cosplay for the movie premier! I saw it on June 9th, and what an amazing experience! I don't cosplay, but I wanted to make something fun for the movie while also making sure whatever it is that I sewed, I could wear outside casually without being in full cosplay.
Bits of the outfit are inspired by the different characters!
Theater Broach - Gangle
Bracelet - Kinger
Purple Earrings - Jax
Yellow Purse - Zooble
Red and Blue stockings - Pomni
Black Dress - Ragatha
I had been wanting to make myself a Little Black Dress for a while but couldn't decide on bodice and skirt style, so I took a lot of inspiration from her Dress from the Bar scene. The pattern is the Liz bodice and Wanda skirt by Charm Patterns.
The jacket is the Princess Coat pattern by Charm Patterns as well. This was a lot of fun to make (and quite the stashbuster! I didn't realize I had so many yards and yards of red twill just lying around!) And I learned a lot from the Black Dress.
Can't wait to watch it again when it comes to YouTube in a few days!
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area femme makes art class teaching apron for gender and for profit (not ruining clothes)
the combined pockets on the charm patterns artist apron fit my tea thermos, a roll of paper towels, a full pencil case, a dry erase marker, my backpack parking passes, and still have room for things like my wrist splint and my most important classroom materials, earplugs.
I bought the fabric in January 2022 when a fabric store was closing. I think I had about 6 yards? Anyways. That second picture is the remaining bit of border print left!
Join me in the sewing room while I quietly create this super cute vintage 1940s style Cobbler Dress. The pattern is by Gertie from her Charm
Join me in the sewing room while I quietly create this super cute vintage 1940s style Cobbler Dress. The pattern is by Gertie from her Charm Patterns Patreon library and It was so much fun to put together! I definitely see more of these in my future.
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Here's a dress I recently finished! It's the Milicent Skirt and Barbara Bodice by Charm Patterns. Charm patterns does vintage inspired sewing patterns and is SUPER size inclusive: size 2-34.
Now these sizes are not accurate to your conventional sizes. I've been losing weight, so right now I'm 160lbs at 5'4, and I'm solidly a size 10 in Charm Patterns, however I think I'm a size 14 in standard sizes.
One struggle I had found when I first started my vintage sewing journey over 2 years ago was the sewing patterns/clothes available. I had been around 180lbs at my heaviest, and nothing I found could fit me. I really really love Charm Patterns, and would encourage to give the website a look! With foundation garmets and heels, I find the 50s silhouette really flattering on me. With my weight loss, I'm finally getting my figure back! I gained a lot of weight due to alcohol use disorder right after I graduated high school, so I'm excited to explore my body as an adult. Loving my curves and hips!
and this week's episode is either called 'darts are difficult' or 'failsafe projects don't exist' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
*featuring Charm Patterns' Picnic Skirt and Top*:
The Picnic skirt does not require a pattern! A youtube tutorial and instructions are available for free! The top however is a patreon-only pattern from back in 2020
(long, picture-heavy, w-i-p)
Like most of my projects these days this project started with some fabric I got on clearance. Get this! 1,8m for 6,99€!
I started working on the skirt first, since it doesn't require a pattern and is generally quick and easy to make. Et voilà !
The skirt came together in a couple of hours! It's only lacking buttons and buttonholes. Unfortunately I'm still waiting for my buttons to arrive.
Overall I'm quite happy with the skirt so far, my only quarrel with it is that the ease you're supposed to add to the waistband made my waistband turn out much too wide for me.
SO MUCH FOR FAILSAFE HUH?!
I really couldn't bring myself to redo the entire gathering and the waistband, so I simply sewed a little wedge at the center back:
This isn't very professional but it does the job and it's barely noticable from farther away:
You may notice that my skirt has a seam at center back, whereas the original skirt is sewn as one continuous piece, my skirt is also much shorter. That's simply because of how little fabric I had.
After the skirt was done I had very little fabric left for the top:
Which means I'll have to do the cropped version (right hand side of first photo) as opposed to the waist length version. That's okay though, we deal.
Starting on the top however was slightly frightening for me, because it's shaped entirely through darts -my age-old nemesis- and I learned the hard way that Charm Patterns' bust darts NEVER work for me. So I definitely had to make a muslin and some alterations:
Right off the bat, I feel like the neckline scoops way lower than it does on the models?! -Do not like that! And of course the darts don't work for me but otherwise it fit really well!
The blue dot is where my bust apex is (please tumblr there is no female presenting nipple here!) I hope you can see that the side dart is way too low (all bust darts should point towards the bust apex) Also the front dart needs to be ever so slightly bigger and longer.
Here are the rough first alterations, fine tuning still to be done:
I made some mistakes with the fake fur. Apparently you’re supposed to cut through the backing only and not the pile....*fake fur everywhere* It’s also not perfectly sewn but I tried and I think the result looks okay!
I’m really happy with how the top stitching looks and I think the sleeve facings were also a good call.
Now I really want to make a quilted knit circle skirt, I think that would look soo cute together!
