Yay March!
Mar. 3rd, 2014 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenHey, I might be getting the hang of posting again... managing about once a week so far...
Decent weekend and birthday. Quiet this year, which is fine. Made our annual trip to the hot tubs at East Heaven :)
Apparently March is Art Every Day Month. Not sure exactly what I did on Saturday craft-wise -- took pictures of some stuff though. Oh, and started to play with making a decorative "comb" for my Batgirl wig. Sunday I finally finished a skirt; could have finished it Friday but wasn't in the mood for fiddly stuff.
Ignore the top; that's an attempt at expanding the top up from size 7/8, and then I realized I really didn't want that fabric next to my skin so it's going to become a jacket.
The ruffles are of a linen fabric I bought online a few years ago and then was afraid to use, as it's a bit more delicate weave of fabric than I generally wear. But I knew it would be perfect for the My Little Demon Pony project, so I finally brought it out of storage. The supporting fabric for the skirt is a curtain I'd made for our house in Holyoke. The windows are all differently-sized in our new place, so I've been re-vamping or re-purposing the old curtains as I go. So the skirt has a white foundation...matching would've been nice, but I didn't want to spend the money on either new fabric or dye, and I overlapped the ruffles a good bit, so it should be okay.
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I'd forgotten the rules for elastic, so I started off using too much, and then had to pull it in twice, to get the skirt to stay up. The skirt also has a bit of weight to it, with all those ruffles...
Here's the waist band with no elastic. It's a wider opening than my actual hip measurement, but I want it easy to put on, thanks.
And here's me trying to get the elastic down to the correct tension...
The length ratio is about 2 (clothing item) to 1 (elastic).
Since my measurements are a moving target, especially this year, fitted clothing of any kind is a bit of a bear. I didn't want to do an adjustable opening in the back, like one of those laced openings, because I have ruffles going all the way up to the waist. If I had an adjustable opening, the skirt would lay flat there, and I need even support all around for a nice silhouette, as one of the ways I plan to wear this is under another skirt.
I also made the skirt knee-length. Originally I had planned to make it shorter, but I love the fabric and would like to wear it for every day wear at some point, not just costume, and I'm not a mini-skirt-wearing person in general.
Decent weekend and birthday. Quiet this year, which is fine. Made our annual trip to the hot tubs at East Heaven :)
Apparently March is Art Every Day Month. Not sure exactly what I did on Saturday craft-wise -- took pictures of some stuff though. Oh, and started to play with making a decorative "comb" for my Batgirl wig. Sunday I finally finished a skirt; could have finished it Friday but wasn't in the mood for fiddly stuff.
Ignore the top; that's an attempt at expanding the top up from size 7/8, and then I realized I really didn't want that fabric next to my skin so it's going to become a jacket.
The ruffles are of a linen fabric I bought online a few years ago and then was afraid to use, as it's a bit more delicate weave of fabric than I generally wear. But I knew it would be perfect for the My Little Demon Pony project, so I finally brought it out of storage. The supporting fabric for the skirt is a curtain I'd made for our house in Holyoke. The windows are all differently-sized in our new place, so I've been re-vamping or re-purposing the old curtains as I go. So the skirt has a white foundation...matching would've been nice, but I didn't want to spend the money on either new fabric or dye, and I overlapped the ruffles a good bit, so it should be okay.
***
I'd forgotten the rules for elastic, so I started off using too much, and then had to pull it in twice, to get the skirt to stay up. The skirt also has a bit of weight to it, with all those ruffles...
Here's the waist band with no elastic. It's a wider opening than my actual hip measurement, but I want it easy to put on, thanks.
And here's me trying to get the elastic down to the correct tension...
The length ratio is about 2 (clothing item) to 1 (elastic).
Since my measurements are a moving target, especially this year, fitted clothing of any kind is a bit of a bear. I didn't want to do an adjustable opening in the back, like one of those laced openings, because I have ruffles going all the way up to the waist. If I had an adjustable opening, the skirt would lay flat there, and I need even support all around for a nice silhouette, as one of the ways I plan to wear this is under another skirt.
I also made the skirt knee-length. Originally I had planned to make it shorter, but I love the fabric and would like to wear it for every day wear at some point, not just costume, and I'm not a mini-skirt-wearing person in general.
