Creating flowers from sleeves

[helwen]

Found the pics from when I was documenting how I made the lower half of the sleeves from the floral dress into flowers, so I thought I'd post them here.

Should be mostly self-explanatory, I think. I left the buttons on as sort of like stamen/pistil bits. Near the end of the pics you'll see that I made a stem/calyx/base, because I wanted the flowers to stand up a bit and face outward, not upward. It's kind of hard to explain exactly what I did in some places, but I essentially created the petal effect by gathering and folding in a puff, then twisting the fabric to create the folds I wanted, and then stitched them into place.















On the detachable mini-bustle


I didn't take pics of the construction for that, unfortunately, but I'll take a couple pics it and the attachment system at some point.

Comments

[lyanna-beth.livejournal.com]

Nice work. Would probably not have thought about it quite like that personally - but nice work.

L/E

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

I was trying to use as much of the original dress as possible; it was an experiment that turned out.

[danabren.livejournal.com]

Cute and clever.

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Thanks.