#customizing

WiP - Sewing for William Pt 2

Continued from the last post. I indeed continued with the waistcoat as I had the pattern and the design is rather simple overall.

As you can see I shortened the waistcoat during the process I just eyeballing how long it needed to be.

And I decided to add some visible seams for a overall neat finish.

Or so I thought. i didn't expect the button holes to be total butt holes this time as the machine somehow didn't want to sew the thread onto the fabric OTL

And no I don't have brown thread somehow, the red looked fine with the rest but it's a bit too much for the buttonholes now. well... i can remake it later if i feel like it.

It looks a bit better with the buttons sewed on luckily.

Next up is the coat but I need to make pattern for that first. I'm also debating on making him a hat...

also yes his eyes are the wrong color I'm waiting for his eyes.

A week later I was finally able to start on the coat. I had to make a full new pattern and tried a few things here. In the end I need to make a mental note for more adjustments here and there.

This was day one for the coat I decided to do the handwork the next day.

So here we have all the details done by hand, mainly closing the seams from turning it inside out, the sleeves and then the buttons. Plus some fake pockets as I don't feel confident enough to do actual pocket yet. (Last photo is monochrome as I took some photos of a doll in before and forgot to change the settings).

So here is the first look with coat, i liked the back but it looked a tad too bulky so I adjusted it again.

I tried to replicate one of those adjustment-straps for coats/waistcoats out of the blue for it. Next time I will do that within the pattern but I didn't want to open all the seams again.

So here he is <3 William J. Moriarty! I have yet to come up with photo ideas for him but everything is just snow outside rn. Maybe he's a candidate for an indoor photoshoot instead. I will wait for his matching eyes to arrive first.

I am done with my Decora Fashion Girlz Luna doll repaint. I haven't sealed the work yet, but I feel I am done. I went with all acrylics once again, and a 3-4 hours worth of work each day for the past three days. I am super happy with her; there are always issues due to my shaky-old-person hands, not as clean of a paint job as I would have liked. The last day was the worst, but I was super excited to finally finish her, so I painted her even with the extra jitters. I thought because her head is massive, it was going to be easier. Not thinking about how much of a pain it was going to be holding her head in one hand and trying to steady the other on top. Lol! Oh boy, was that a whole new learning curb! Doesn't help that I'm a scrawny, short old-fart, with tiny scrawny hands!

I was thinking of giving her more details in her irises, but I was too shaky, so I stopped myself. I might try later on, but for now, I feel she's done. I'm happy with how she looks even with all the flaws, she reminds me a bit of Secret Doll Persona head sculpts, the way she looks now. Which, I kind of really love, because I was never able to justify getting one of those dolls myself (I did regret it, for a while).

I will probably add upper applied lashes to her eyes after I seal the paint work, and perhaps a few piercings. I kind of like it with the idea that she's a vampire, might try sculpting actual fangs and teeth next time.

no momento ela está assim, personalizei recentemente. ❤️‍🩹