In my last post, I whined about not having made any progress with my DIY goals (or any of my summer goals), but I managed to finish two pairs of shorts in one night, and make a youtube video.
I finished the studded shorts and corset shorts. I inserted both decorations by hand and ended up really hurting both of them in the process. The first pair of shorts have 97 studs total and the corset shorts have 18 grommets on each side. I made a little tutorial type video for the grommet shorts and intended to upload it last Saturday, but with every thing I plan on--it didn't work out. This week I plan to tackle the skeleton shorts, the bat wing crop top, and pixie skirt/shirt.
Earlier in the summer, I made a post about intended DIY projects that I planned to do. Lack of motivation and materials prevented me from making much progress.
I did attempt two, a pixie tank top made from an old skirt and a pixie skirt made from an old pair of pants. Both have failed so far. The tip of the skirt just won't hang right and the skirt-turned-shirt is a huge mess at the moment. It's all very discouraging. Tomorrow I'm going to unstitch the skirt-turned-shirt completely and see what I can salvage. If I can't, then I have the underskirt to work with at least. If that all turns out right, I think it will give me motivations to finish the other current failure.
I have some materials on the way to work on other projects and I'm hoping these turn out better.
As for my other goals, I've made quite a bit of headway into removing clutter and junk from my room, extended my wardrobe a bit, almost finished a cosplay, but haven't managed to lose weight.
I've finally got the full outfit together for Levy McGarden. All I'm missing is the wig, which should be arriving soon.This cosplay was pretty cheap and easy to make. The whole outfit cost no more than $20 to make, and that's because I used lots of thrifted items.
The dress itself was a lucky thrift store find. It had a similar shape to the dress Levy wears, but the color was a more vibrant orange. That wasn't a big deal for me and I prefer the color on her, so I got it. I unstitched the straps and stretchy back part. This ended up making the dress really big, so I just added some new white colored straps with no zipper or stretchy part. It goes over my head fairly easy, still.
The bow was difficult. I originally wanted to make it detachable, because I liked the look of the dress without it, but that didn't work out at all. I mad a super simple bow by scrunching a rectangle and sewing it and the wrapping two strips of fabric around it and sewing those down. I then hand sewed the bow to the dress (there was NO getting that much fabric through my machine).
The sleeves were easy to make. I measured the length of my arms and sketched out a flare shape on the fabric. I cut it all on the fold so I only had to sew one seam on each and sew the raw edges at the bottom. The white tops of the sleeves were made from strips of an old t-shirt and elastic. I couldn't sew the t-shirt material by itself on my sewing machine, so I used stitch witch. I then pinned the new straps to the tops of the sleeves and sewed them.
The headband was a challenge. Making the plain yellow fabric strip was easy enough, but adding the black lines and flowers was irritating. When I made the first black lines, the fabric pen made black ink seep throughout the fabric making smudgy lines. I re-did it with an ink pen and it worked. Cutting out foam is hard, so my first flowers weren't very pretty. It's too short to tie around my head and have the pieces hanging down, so I just pin it to my hair to create that look.
The shoes were an easy find. I see strappy red sandals ALL the time in thrift stores. Mine only cost $1.
I'll be ordering my wig soon, and I will be uploading a video/blog post about that as well.
